Additional Peru Border Crossing Information
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People's experiences vary depending on crowds at the border, corrupt or honest border officials, and rules can also change. Read about individual experiences at specific borders below.
[edit] Entering Peru
Aguas Verdes, June 5th, 2009
After reading the guide book's exaggerated write up of the Huaquillas / Aguas Verdes border crossing we almost went inland where the border was supposed to be a lot calmer. But we wanted to check out Mancora for the surf so we went for it. It took four hours to drive from Quenca and we rolled into Hauquillas on a Friday afternoon right around comida time, probably the worst time to cross a busy border anywhere, so we were braced for madness but after canceling our Ecuadorian car permit and driving the 3km to Aguas Verdes we found only one other person waiting in line for both immigration and aduana. We made the mistake of trying to import the car without having first been issued our 90 day visa from immigration – get your passport stamped first and then get a photocopy of the stamped page to give to the aduana. The older guy at the aduana desk seemed easily confused so make sure you get everything stamped right. He stamped our first form in the wrong place and only upon our insistence filled out another form (better this minor hassle now than weeks dealing with cops looking for any reason to give us the runaround) After preparing for a hectic cross ... this one, at least for us, wasn't too bad at all!
--posted by Tom
[edit] Exiting Peru
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This entry seems to be exiting Ecuador and not exiting Peru?
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