After much searching for plane tickets and not finding anything cheaper than nearly $500 we had to admit defeat and turn to our favourite form of transport: the bus! After leaving southern ecuador we crossed the border to Peru and made our way to Lima, making a brief stop in a costal town along the way. From Lima we planned to do a pretty much non-stop trip down to southern Argentina, only about 3641 miles! Leg 1 Lima, Peru to Arica, Chile (614 miles) The first leg of our journey was actually done in two bits, a bus to the Peruvian border town of Tacna, where we had a short layover and then took a taxi across the frontier to Arica on the Chillean side. During our 17 1/2 hours on the bus we saw
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