As is normal, life doesn’t really always go to plan! Thinking that I still had a month left to extend my three month visitor pass and organize my documents: it was quite unplanned to find out that my three month pass was actually a two month pass and that I had but three days to get to the border and leave the country. However, 24 hours and a 17 hour bus ride later, Elvis and I rolled into the Peruvian border town of Tacna. Nothing remarkable or distinguishable, Tacna is just another normal Peruvian town: mud brick houses, outdoor markets, dirt roads… quite bleak with its grey desert back drop, a few scrangy trees, a patch of grass here and there… and.. in the outskirts, mud brick houses turned into woven reed shanties, no more larger
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