We had holly lovely experiences at it, but also some others that were pretty scary, like the one we get on a truck, drived by a guy named Salvador Augusto by his own choice (he choosed those names because of Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet, or that's what he told us), who asked us to wake him up after 10 minutes we stopped on a gas station for him to rest. We gave him another 20 minutes, because we hadbeen driving arround 8 hours before that.
But also we met Pablo, the truck driver most incredible of the earth, really. He stopped on the entrance of Tal-tal and we travelled with him until antofagasta, listening to de Dark side of the moon, after a reggae-rap or something group he met on Antofagasta, and others. Also we made 3 Stops, one to water a few plants that are on the north 5th freeway (that lives because of the truckers watering), another to feed Chola, the northern dog (but she had so much food on her dog house there in the desert, also given o her by truckers and miners) and another to eat, on a "picada" pablo told to us. So great.
Once in Peru, we went fast to Mancora, where we met with a beloved friend Nicky and he told us how his rute was (he was returing from Ecuador to Chile) and he was very enfatic about a place called Portete, so we started or way to that paradise.On or way to Portete we met with another buddy that was traveling with Nicky, but he did not wanted to return yet, so he waited for us in Baños de Agua Santa, on Ecuador. Gabo told us about Portete to, and together we knew this incredible place of rivers, waterfalls and mountains. We had this amazing day visiting de "house in the air" on the top of an enormous hill, were we get on a huge swing, and the next day we started our trip to Portete, and our friend Gabo went to south for recolect Kukumelos.
In fact, Portete is the most beautifull and peacefull beach I've been in my whole life. And life there is extremely cheap (for us). This place were so far from our home, that it is near to Colombia. The sea water is warm, they fall coconuts all over the place, from the trees!! There is no need to put so mcuh clothes on, even if it rains. It was the last place we visited until we started the way on, back home.



