My tour of Peru had finally come around. It wasn’t to be a group tour but the company I had chosen had micro managed my travel plans booking hotels, transport, transfers and entrance tickets. The first of the 14 days started early, a 3.30am pick up. Bleary eyed I was taken to the bus station in Lima, given all my vouchers for my tour and put on a bus to Paracas. Bus travel had worried me the most about travelling Peru. Stories from fellow travellers of hijackings with guns and night time bus crashes made me nervous. Thankfully the company I was with booked me onto busses with airport type security; metal scanners, passport identification, no ad hoc stops, GPS tracking, baggage identification tags and video footage of all passengers. It would have been hard for
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