Day 100 Nov 11 2014 Los Organos Peru

bus tour of Cuenca

100th day of the sabbatical celebration

Isabel on the path to a coffee shop in Cuenca Peru.  Safety First

Day 100  Nov 11 2014   Los Organos Peru

We started the day off by going to the bus station to buy our tickets to Mancora Peru.  We got a discount on the tickets as the bus was fairly empty so we only ended up paying $52.  We booked Las Balcones Hotel for the day at a cost of 40 dollars. Much better than dragging our luggage around the city for 10 hours.  We hopped on the tour bus and took a tour of the city.  The bus tour was followed by a trip to the Central Bank Museum.  A trip to an upscale ice cream parlor to celebrate our 100^th day of the sabbatical. At 10 pm we boarded the Super Semaria bus to Peru.  The type of seat was called a semi cama.  It might have been ok for Evy but it was short for me.  I would not have wanted to be any taller or the seat would not have been comfortable.  The bus got to customes at 2:15am and we did not have to get off the bus there.  A few minutes later we were driven to immigration where there was a line for exiting Ecuador and a few feet away was a line to enter Peru.  The entire process for the bus took less then 25 minutes.  We arrived in Macora at 4:30 am and took a motor taxi to the taxi drivers house where we were transferred to a regular taxi.  The hotel Gran Velero we booked on line is quite well hidden and the taxi driver took quite a while to find it.  The road into the hotel is extremely rough and bottom of the brand new taxi bounced off of a big rock.  When we finally found the hotel the room was not ready and we were not to impressed.  It turned out that the hotel was not expecting us till the next day.  Since we had planned on arriving at 5 am in the morning we thought we had to pay for that day but we did not.  By the standards of most other hotels we had stayed at we were given a free night.