Gianni Truvianniâ € ™ s journey by bus from Tacna, Chile to Lima, Peru

Author: Gianni Truvianni

It happened in late September of 92, while I was in Buenos Aires that I decided to return to Lima, Peru, where I knew I would return the United States, but only after having captured the Peruvian part of life I had not even really see.

Part I refers to slums than in Spanish or at least in Peru known as â € € œpueblos Jovenesâ, if literally translated in English language â € is € œyoung towns. Â This expression, which to some extent, then, is a kindergarten coined in English, which means more or less extreme poverty. While the other in Spanish, or Peru (I'm not aware of the time or do not use this expression in every Spanish speaking country) suggests that city is â € € œyoungâ and under that is still in early stages of development, to justify a lack of certain facilities such as running water no electricity. Of course, from a technical viewpoint, we could say that every major city at a time was a solution that finally resulted in perhaps a metropolis. Â Â

By then I had been in South America, a little over a year and decided, after visiting places such as Curacao (a Dutch island located off shore venezuelae € ™ s), Chile and Argentina it was time to return to the States, but instead of taking a flight Direct from Buenos Aires to New York, I would take the bus from Buenos Aires to Lima. From Lima, I would go take a flight to Miami and the rest of the journey by bus, is I am short of money at the moment. However, this only after spending some time in Lima, getting all the shots had not in my first months there, the time present in my life which was heavily involved in photography.

It was in early October came in Peru who, in reality no coach, but in a shared taxi (with five others), and perhaps not so curiously there is no bus (or at least not at the moment) that goes from Santiago to Lima but it is limited to take passengers across the border, which means from Arica in Chile (in a moment of history was a part of Peru) to Tacna in Peru. The latter is a city that actually changed hands twice: first after being Peruvian and Chilean then back to Peru again. All this occurs after the war against Peru and Bolivia lost to Chile, leading to a loss of both countries much of their land. Bolivia arguably have far more, since were forced to renounce his connection with the Pacific Ocean.

Once in Tacna, hooked me with a blond man from Argentina who were their way back to Venezuela. This the place that he and his Venezuelan wife has come to call home, since they had found a job in that country € ™ never s lucrative oil industry. Tacna, as many know is a city in an Order of Peru, which also bears the same name, which really has very little to offer any person, especially a tourist town, however, this does not receive a lot of visitors because ita € ™ s what is commonly known as â € Porta œFree €. This is a place where goods are sold cheaply because they never entered the country, import taxes were never added to its price.

This is because of this factor that lends itself to many Peruvians, a full day's bus ride to one of a small, dirty the city in the desert, and to be filled with goods to take back and, above all, to sell in Lima, obviously at a higher price. Of course there are those traveling by plane from Lima to Tacna, as had my way, but these tours are not here all that really attract far fewer who want to take a connecting flight to Chile or Argentina or Bolivia. There are even those who do drive, but these are few that I found that it is actually cheaper for Peruvians seeking to do business in Tacna and then travel by road in buses, usually from Lima.

In all matters relating to travel between Tacna and Lima, or vice versa, one can rule out the option to train simply does not exist, not only between these two cities, but in the whole Peru, except Lima and Cusco. Although I imagine the train would not have been the most convenient or faster, even if there had been  One

Once in Tacna and sitting side by side on the bus to Lima, my traveling companion of the newly acquired Argentina and I could see clearly what this trip I was taking for the first time, although no that would be it. I've flown from Lima to Tacna, where the weather was what I had less money, the more you save the experience. Naturally, there would be been the same. This is because when people went from Lima to Tacna not have much in the way of baggage with them but it was upside down. Tacna-Lima was the trips were the buses were loaded at full capacity since all these â € € œtravelling merchants brought with them all their property, which literally fills the bus to extent that one could not take two steps in the corridor without having to go around or over somebody € ™ s luggage.

This is the case since the bus companies do not set limits on how much you can actually transport of these buses which resulted in the roofs of the buses are stacked almost two meters tall, while the transmission is jammed pack compartments, as well as the overhead ones. There were even some who traveled all the way up, their seats as they prefer to volunteer with Pioneer stereo could travel in comfort. Fortunately, all this I was spared having to travel all the livestock, taking into account that offers no real Tacna.

Of course, as always Peruvian bus companies, always in a bid to be considered in their Passengers tried to install largest number of seats on the bus which was the offspring of them terribly in their desire to have as many as possible, even if This meant removing the toilet, so this can be achieved. Yes, the bathroom was sacrificed for these types of buses that normally take them to recover the two passengers could make the trip more than 24 hours. For all things considered even in Peru, it would be difficult to find anyone willing to pay for a seat on the toilet.

However, once the bus on its way, my travel companion by the name of Argentina Jorge (surname I do not recall) and I even sat down and comfortable, and more or less, and I have to talk about the many aspects of our curiosity about them can not be called a â € € œhighwayâ by any stretch of the imagination is a path of dry land, which made especially for us in the dust when the bus were overcome by any fast moving vehicle that was not all that difficult given the limited speed of our bus had to travel at all because they had been packed in the top.

During our trip, George and I talked about our life, that I told about my career as a photographer while he talked to me of his life in Venezuela, despite our issues which include the historical, Eva Perón. This is where he told me that my understanding of this issue was the Typical America, I was asked what his response to my view that all Americans who believe in a simplified version of Eva Perón. Which she and her husband, led to a government that might be generous to the poor, but very corrupt, which I asked if that was not the case, knowing that all was not simple.

Our bus trip is interrupted but the border between the province of Tacna, and the rest of Peru. This is because although a part of Tacna Peru, is due to its status as a â € € œfree carrier as another country, where one is actually required not only to show ONEA € ™ s passport but pass through customs and pay duty, even in what has been bought in Tacna. However, this is not a process is not required to go under when you enter the rest of Tacna PERÚ.

As can be suspicious of everyone on the bus is full with the goods, Customs will be a problem that would have a lot of time, especially since there were several other coaches in line ahead of us across the border. Many coaches, however, more often then not have up a collection among its passengers to pass customs officer who, in turn, not to look too carefully or at all for that matter and allow the buses that pass through paid without having to wait in line. All of which make life easier but with my travel companion € ™ s fortune and mine at that time, just moving to take a passenger bus, which besides being loaded with goods were not really ready to deposit any money to bribe the officer customs. All that meant, Jorge and I had nothing to separate us from our clothes and personal belongings would have to wait ten hours or more at the border before be allowed through, simply because we were on a bus who was carrying contraband, to people who are frugal to pay what it would have amounted to $ 10 per piece for the bus to go through five or perhaps would have done. As a matter of fact, George and I even offered to give five U.S. dollars each in the collection that have gone to the office, only to find another woman and that they were the only ones willing to sacrifice money for the sake of saving time. Â

It was when faced with the options of having to spend ten hours in the office or put a lot more than five dollars to pay an official Customs ignore contraband that did not even have that George and the only thing I could do that was to take another bus to Lima. This we did in the first place to download the bus with our luggage, Jorge helps me to keep his footing as he had over and I did across the border, which only includes the customs and passport control no.

Once across the border, after having demonstrated the customs official who then had no other personal belongings, as none of us had made any purchases in Tacna, a bus that we had passed the customs. Naturally, we had to pay the price of two tickets Lima-Tacna given that in Peru, a bus is not required to take another bus passenger, even if it is the same company or to the same fate simply because they could or no wait to get through customs. Jorge and I, however, does not mind paying because it was not really all that much and we were able to put in place more quickly.

Once inside what is now our second bus, we continued chatting outside our subject, and having discussed Eva Perón, who labeled demigod as (much Jorgeâ € ™ s protest to the contrary), addressed the recent arrest of Guzmanes € â € œAbimael. This man, considered the leader of the terrorist group Luminosoâ € â € œSendero (brightness Path) in Peru that many wanted to be tried in a court military (although he had never been a member of the military) of all the things of treason. This is a position that in most countries (including Peru) is generally reserved for the military in the past a certain range, or with security, none of which applies to Guzman. There were those who were in Peru, even calling his death, while Peru did not have this penalty at the time, and would not until President Fujimori (currently serving a prison sentence in Peru) was imposed in constitution that same year. Â Â

Luminosoâ € â € œSendero, a group that since its formation in 1980 was responsible of € ™ s death of over 20,000 people and a car bomb in the same year killed 27 people in Lima € ™ s district of Miraflores. I must confess that I did not know much about what was happening in connection with the arrest of Guzman, other then what I had heard on television in Buenos Aires, which was that it had finally been captured. This after years of eluding police in a house located in Lima in the district â € € œSurcoâ where he was hidden by a couple, running a dance school in the house. Even recalled hearing that the lady of the house, who was a devout supporter de Guzman, was also the niece of the famous Peruvian writer Vargas œMario € â € Llosaâ, which had fallen and lost in a runoff election against Fujimori (president of Peru at the time) in Peru € ™ s presidential election 1990. This, in fact after winning the first round. Â

With the long journey, Jorge and I have to sleep, but not before chatting some local Peruvian girls, who even took pictures of some of which I included in the vaccine that Jorge had with my faithful Minolta. India girls from Peru, I have to say not unattractive, or at least we met on the bus. This is perhaps the reason why, despite all his dedication to the U.S., the actor Marion Morrison (aka John Wayne) is married with two Peruvian women, while Poland € ™ s presidential candidate â € € œTyminskiâ took one of his own his first wife, but is now married with a lady from China. Through our conversations with these ladies Peruvian who came to know more about our host country, in exchange for gave them some of the pictures I had on me, taking in places like Rome, Paris and London.

Since the bus was much more dirty, the one in Chile and was slower to perform their function but if I was afraid I would go to the bathroom, which I did not drink or eat much, so it should be obvious reasons. For my part, I soon fall asleep, because I had been traveling from Buenos Aires and I thought I could get some sleep, because it probably would have no problems but a slight one came. Having traveled on the bus, so it must have been two or three hours, we went through a police passport control, which was only for the Peruvians, not since George and I were the only ones that were needed to get off the bus and show our passports.

Someone actually yelled something that I found quite amusing, while George and I were in the path of the bus (again to of course) that was translated into English as â € œall of Arequipa, Get Offa €. This reference to the joke about how Peruvians who came in the province of Arequipa, Peru to be real, given its position regardless of the government in Lima, which runs until the end of them with their own passports in Arequipa that are used to get discounts in some hotels and restaurants. As a personal matter; sisterâ € ™ s my husband at the time he was going to divorce came from this part of the Peru.

Finally night fell on what had been this long day's journey, and the bus made a stop near a restaurant in Arequipa the whole world saw off the bus, especially to get something to eat or go to the bathroom. Of course, the reality is that in fact had no choice but to get off the bus, while being fed, because everyone (but George and I) very expensive products, so they had to leave the bus. It is hoped creating a situation that nobody in the bus with so much value goods, especially while the majority are so from their seats and the smuggling of goods.

Jorge and I got to the bus, ensuring that we have not really had and I must confess that, unlike most of what he had seen on that road, this restaurant in Arequipa but gave a humble appearance of being clean, or at least enough that he ordered something to eat, that does not come wrapped in plastic. A large meal of chicken and rice, which was had, despite my being a vegetarian in those days, while George had the same and I would add that the food in its simplicity, it was not bad.

The break ended is also used to go to the bathroom, after which we have in our own way and I figured wrong, of coarse I sleep all night and we get to Lima early to take a much needed shower. This is what I planned, but like most plans, which were slightly astray like the bus, actually. Happened, a good night for the bus driver, who did not have anyone to relieve him, ended up falling asleep at the wheel while going pretty fast; especially for the type of road they were on.

The bus left the road, but fortunately not one of the many high cliffs, (some over 20 meters), but only the road and into a sand trap, which requires all passengers to get off the bus, while the men were to push the bus. We had a tough shot, you could definitely say that things could have been worse because the bus might have fallen from a high height or turned over, but fortunately nobody was injured. Most on the bus, even took what had happened in the passage, since it is not uncommon.

I for my part, but it is difficult to go back to sleep, spending most of the night awakens the fear of a repetition of the same however did not. The night however was a beautiful, despite everything, traveling under a clear desert sky that shows the wonder that is the Southern Cross, I could not stop admire, but in my insomnia. Â

Morning finally arrived to find our bus on the way and still make their way to Peru € ™ s capital of more than six million inhabitants, but had not achieved much sleep after what had happened, but not everyone felt that despite sleep. Jorge and I continue talking until they finally arrived in Lima, where we exchanged our addresses and said after a good off what had been a more memorable trip for many reasons. One of them Jorgeâ € ™ s pleasant personality and interesting comments on the many topics of mutual interest we have achieved. Jorge and I, however, never meet again and is unlikely ever going well in recent years led to his personality and looks and get the fiction of a Polish taxi driver spoke of Argentina, which appears in my first â € œNew York € ™ s Opera Society €. Â

About Author:

My name is Gianni Truvianni, I am an author who writes with the simple aim of sharing his ideas, thoughts and more I'm with those who are interested in perhaps reading something new. I am also the author of the book entitled â € œNew York € ™ s Opera Society is already € available at Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Yorks-Opera-Society-Gianni-Truvianni/dp/0595500161/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226938874&sr=8-2

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