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Getting from Jorge Chavez Airport to Huaraz

Let Giovana Cuba help you through Lima. She is a bilingual secretary (English and Spanish) who lives in Los Olivos in the north of Lima, between the airport and the Pan American Norte. She works for a pharmaceutical firm in Miraflores and knows the city well. 

Giovana helps organize a Christmas party for kids from the hillside communities around Lima. December 2007 Volunteers 2006 Santa and kids 2006 Registration day 2006 Powerpoint file from 2005. Christmas 2004 Here is a picture of the kids lining up to get in to the party Dec 17 2006. There were 319 signed up and over 500 showed up.

There is no plane service from Lima to Huaraz. The road distance is 400 km., first north along the coastal dunes and plain to Barranca, then inland climbing 13,000 feet into the mountains before descending to 10,000 feet at Huaraz. The bus time is 7 or 8 hours.

Movil Tours and Cruz Del Sur run at least two buses a day each from Lima. Each stops in Los Olivos. The cheapest and quickest way to Huaraz is by taxi directly from the airport to Los Olivos, and then onto the morning or overnight buses which leave around nine, tying in conveniently with flight arrivals around five. Movil Tours is said to have the better buses. Its overnight bus has sleepers on two decks. The lower deck is more comfortable. Prices range from S/.30 to S/.55 ($9 to $17).

If you are nervous about getting from the airport to the bus, let Giovana ( giovanacuba@hotmail.com )  make your bus reservations, meet you at the airport, take you to a nice restaurant for ceviche, help change your money (you don't want a counterfeit S/.100 bill), and get you to the bus station . She will have saved you a bunch of worry, a S/.35 cab ride to downtown, a S/.120 night in a Lima hotel, and a day of vacation time. For this she asks $20 which includes cab fare but not dinner.

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Last update: 13 Nov 2007