Entering Peru from the coast road out of Ecuador
That was fun :-)
We should have known that it was too good to be true that the Ecuadorians had finally realised that road signs were useful.
For the last 50k it was clearly marked we were on the road to the border, so keep following the signs.
We crossed the new bridge, went past some freshly built new offices on the other side f the carriage way and arrived at the border post.
Except it was the Peruvian post.
So it was back about 4 kms.
Apparently you have to be a clairvoyant to know that you should ignore the signs at the lt roundabout and take a right into Huayquilas where there is an office (unmarked of course) at the side of the road to deal with passports.
And they don't deal with the termination of the temporary import of the bikes, here, oh no, that would be to easy. The Aduana was an unsigned building another 4km back into Ecuador, which we had now officially left.
Even there there did not have the systems to deal with the forms, so they just took them and told us to go.
I thought we were back in Central America for about an hour.
The rest of Ecuador, especially the coast, was great.
By contrast the Peruvian border crossing ws well organiaed, and bribe free. :-)
Still haven't got insurance :-(
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