The worst thing about getting a bus in Peru is that nowhere has a central terminal where all the buses congregate. Instead each bus company has it´s own station. This means that first you have to find the bus company that has a route through your preferred destination and then you have to try and find it´s location. For a gringo that doesn't´t speak much spanish, this makes things significantly harder than in would have been in the countries prior to Peru. In Ecuador you could turn up at the bus terminal, shout out your destination and sit back while the bus conductors fought to get your bags on their bus. Simple! Unfortunately i wasn´t able to apply the same approach for my journey to Pacasmayo. On all the previous bus journeys, i had always been
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