Your friend needs to be a Peruvian citizen (or maybe just resident), and have an ID card. And they do need to come with you to the border, unless Jupiter's 3rd moon is aligned with Uranus, then you might be able to leave without them present.
Yeah ideally the border town has a notary, a friendly hostel owner, and seperate border offices. Yunguyo/Copacabana has hostels, though I'm not sure if there's a notary there (we were told there wasn't, but i think that may have just been closed for summer holidays).
Re taking route 30 (I presume you mean via Puerto Maldonado), I've not been but am likely to come back that way - from what I've read you would have to go Peru>Brazil>Bolivia (there's no crossing from Peru to Bolivia). You might get lucky and the border guard can't be ****ed to enforce the law, but if you take that route I think it would be wise to try and find out where the nearest notary is in case you need to try PoA thing. (Just to clarify, once you've typed up the poder you must go to a notary to get it stamped, so ,if the nearest one is Puerto Maldonado, it could slow you down and dent your wallet a fair bit)
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