Hi, guys.
It hasn't been updated since a couple weeks ago. I had lots of things to do and places to go for kind of preparations of my future soccer academy in Osaka.
Anyway, let's get back on track.
We were on the way to the border between Peru and Chile after leaving Cusco. We never knew that it would be one of the most demading bus ride again in this trip because we were thinking that we could catch a direct bus to te border city on Peru side called Tacna, but we couldn't find any buses to reach there and we were told that we needed to take a bus for Arica first and require a transfer to Tacna. It was such a exhausting fact, but needed to follow it.
Moreover, what jumped out at us when we got to the border was a terribly long line to be checked up at the immigration. It ended up imposing about a 2 hours wait on us to get through it. And the bus rides still continue.. We caught a bus again from the border of the Chile side to Arica and transfer it to Iquique finally.
The reason I went to the town was to reunite with my old friend from childhood. He is now working as a executive manager for a Japanese car company that mainly exports Japanese car parts to Chile. He started with zero Spanish in the Spanish working environment. As a matter of course, most of his collegues have close-to-zero japanese, but he ventured into a new environment to stabilize the financial health.
As it is now, he speaks Spanish very well. I got impressed so much by what he did and is doing right now in the environment. In his tight schedules, He never forgot to guide us around the town and so on during our stay. I really apprecited him and lucky enough having such a wonderful friend.
Sorry, I could't upload any photoes on this entry. The reason will be come to light in the next entry for sure. It was shocking.. Stay tuned!!
ども。
更新が滞っていましたね。
チリへの移動もまた大変でした。クスコを出てまずはアレキパというペルー南の町へ。そこからタクナというペルー側の国境近くの町へ。さらにそこから南少し進むとチリとの国境まで行けます。そこで待ってたのが長蛇の列。週末ということもあり、自分たちの番が来るまで２時間くらい立ちっぱなし。そこを超えてからもまたバスでアリカという町まで行って、ようやくそこから目的地であるイキケという街に到着しました。これも丸１日以上かけて移動と乗り換えの連続。きつかったです。
なぜこの聞いたこともないイキケの町へ行ったかというと、地元の友人がこの町に赴任して働いているからでした。地球の裏側で、チリ人やペルー人に囲まれて仕事をすること、スペイン語の能力もほぼゼロからスタートして、難しいことばかりだと言ってたけど、そのパワーに刺激を受けた。
それに、この名も知られていない町は、すぐ太平洋に面した海岸沿いにある町で、たまたま空いていた高層マンションの一室を貸してもらい、最高の時間を過ごせました。色々とおもてなしを受け、今回の旅行で一番の思い出になりましたね。改めて感謝です。ありがとう。
写真がないのが残念。それは次の滞在地で起きた事件によって明らかになります・・・。
次はメキシコ編です。
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