Plane Train Or Automobile?
What is the best way to get to Cuzco, and why do gringo's spell it Cusco?
A Train link and any Hotel recommendations would be greatly appreciated, looking at heading down 04/10 to 04/16 between Lima and Cuzco, what does the weekend look like in Lima over the Easter Holiday!
Thanks,
LP!
Huanchaco Is No Great Surf Spot
I CERTAINLY would not travel up North to surf THERE!
Chicama, Pacasamayo etc are the waves worth traveling for, NOT Juanchasco. Juanchaco is only 15 minutes or so from the best Chongo in the North (Bahia Rosa). Read my recent report in Trujillo section and check [url]www.wannasurf.com[/url] for more details on surf spots.
Near Lima, Punta Rocas area is your best bet.
Emperador Plaza, not so guest friendly
checked out the silent spa banos turcos in cusco. wasn’t given a choice of chicas. wasn’t offered any extras, nor did i ask. the woman was 50 if she was a day. it was my first time to this type of place. so maybe someone with more experience and better spanish skills would do better. it’s hard to believe that the peruvian guys i saw walking around were there for what i got.
competition among taxis here is fierce. so it is fairly easy to avoid the gringo tax. anywhere in town should be 2 soles. maybe 3 to the train station and 5 to sol de oro or noica and decameron. more than 1 sole above these and you are being taxed. just say how much you want to pay before you get in. i didn’t have one say no. although a couple were suddenly struck with alzheimer’s when we arrived. they didn’t fight hard and accepted what i gave in the end. it is best to have the address written down because if you ask them if they know a place they will say yes. as often as not, they will be lying. so since i didn’t have the address to decameron, i made the guy tell me three times he knew where it was before i got in. five soles from the plaza d’armas. it was a little far and i still don’t know where in the hell it is. i didn’t even see a sign on the door.
you have to walk down a long hallway to get to the club and the only indication that i was in the right place was a neon sign on the wall. this place has been described as more upscale. i don’t know if i would use that phrase. it’s big and dark. i got there at 10:30 and was the only customer in the place. there was one uninteresting chica slouching in a chair. after 15 minutes i got up to leave and the bartender told me there would be “many chicas” in twenty minutes. i wasn’t excited about returning to noica, so i stayed. he was right. at about ten to eleven they start streaming in. i don’t know what it is like later. (i was told that it doesn’t get going until around one.) but at this time, they were all huddled in groups at tables against the wall. difficult to see from the bar and about fifteen yards across an empty room..
being the only customer in the joint and sober, i was happy when the bartender asked me if i wanted to talk to one. “er, the one in red” good guess. nineteen year old hottie from iquitos. no english, and a manner of speech i couldn’t possibly understand with my level of spanish. so i got to the point quickly, which seemed to genuinely surprise her. maybe peruvian guys hang out all night before asking about take out, who knows. she asked for 100 soles for a half hour. but agreed to 150 for an hour. still seemed a little high for this neck of the woods but i was into her.
when i paid the tab, the bartender tried to give me two condoms in lieu of 5 soles change. i refused this which caused much consternation around the bar. they couldn’t scrounge up 5 soles from four people? he finally flagged a cab to get the change. the cab driver kept the five for the fare. i probably would have tipped the guy at least 5 soles for bringing the girl over. but the condom thing just pissed me off a little.
when we got to the hotel, the night clerk literally blocked our entrance and said she can’t come in. i said she is not staying the night only visiting. he said no.we argued for a while. until, i said, “what if i pay a little more?” guess what.
he charged me the difference between what i was paying and the posted rate for double occupancy. i don’t think it would have been much easier if i had paid for a double in the first place because he made her register and i got the stink eye the next day from the female day clerk. it’s a good idea to check that the chicas have id before you leave the club. one i pulled from tequila rocks did not and this one would not have if i hadn’t said something before we left decamerron.
all in all worth the trouble. good bbbj, nice gfe no surprises or squabbles back at the room.
2 orange juices 20 soles
1 chica drink 35 soles
salida 30 soles
chica 150 soles
joiner 42 soles
[b][u]editor's note[/u]:[/b] [blue]i certainly hope that the author or somebody else will post a link to this report in the reports of distinction thread.[/blue]
With Air Fares of $100+, maybe it a bus ride is worth it.
[QUOTE=Artisttyp]You can take a bus or plane.Most people take a plane.If you go by bus try to avoid the company orelleno(green logo) they were always behind schedule.I was told cruz del sur is a good one ...there is also a company more modern called something like cialis or something or other.Always insist on executive clase (top level) some people will try to tell you it is and it isn't.
The trip from lima is like 20 something hours by bus so I recommend you brake it up and find some towns in between that might instrest you.If you go south down the coast towards arequiepa there are a few places to stop like pisco/paracas but unforunately you would have to turn inland for a long duration of the trip.There is a lake area 8 hours inland from arequiepa that is a big tourist destination and about another 8 hours from there is cuzco.
Gringos spell cusco with an s because our native language is not espanol.I'll contain myself from using a common grammatic error that latin people use.There are many of use making an effort to learn spanish so lets play nice.[/QUOTE]With Air Fares of $100+, maybe it a bus ride is worth it.
Anyone know how much a luxury bus ticket costs?
To those interested in surfing while in Peru
you need to check out the movie [i]peel: the peru project[/i]. it's currently showing at independent theatres here in the states. i saw it two weeks ago and it took me right back to my time in peru. not much in the way of chicas, but the movie really captures the feeling of visiting this country. i think you can order the dvd from the website, if you're a true fan of the genre.
[url]http://www.peelperuproject.com/[/url]