BINGO!
How popular is bingo in South America? So popular they play it on long haul bus rides.
We took the bus from Cusco to Lima, which we had been warned was an unpleasant journey. That, would prove to be an understatement (as usual). It was a ride through some serious mountains, made worse by the lady next to us vomitting constantly into a plastic bag she refused to change or discard, and the completely unnecessary showing of "Heroe's Mountain," the tragedy of Australian Bruce Diver getting trapped under an avalanche and buried alive. The volume nob, as always, was set to 11.
The ride was somewhere around 20 hours, so to break things up they play bingo in the afternoon on the second day, and you can win free bus tickets to take more awful rides just like the one you are currently enjoying. As you can discern from the pic, Liz won about 6 times before any other passenger called out Bingo. We decided we didn't really want the prize, let alone the fame and glory that comes along with being an Expresso Del Sur bingo winner. Plus, to claim your prize you have to tell a joke in Spanish, and we had been fresh out of good ones.
One notable part of the ride was the secenery leading up to Lima's outskirts. Peru is lucky enough to possess a phenomenon called a coastal desert - in other words a barren desert stretching up to the ocean's' waves. To make that even better, most of the year a coastal fog sits on the coast and makes everything painfully grey.
All of this sets up a scenery from your bus window that looks like Mad Max - shantytown houses in a desert wasteland. It is pretty cool in how terribly awful it looks. From the pic here, you can see the pacific ocean, and some shanty houses and political slogans and evil looking brush.
Awful.
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