Bonjour,
Voici un échange intéresant que j'ai récupéré d'un autre blog et qui traite du sujet (en anglais par-contre) :
We have a few questions on our visa situations that I would like to put before this community for some advice. I appreciate in advance any suggestions or input.
I got my 180 tourist visa on November 22 and there will be no problem finishing my documents in time to submit them. In fact, we will have everything before the end of December.
Here’s an overview. There are three of us, myself, my wife and my three year old granddaughter. My wife and granddaughter’s 90 day visas expire on December 15, 2016. Because of various delays in getting our documents in order, we won’t have everything until at least a week, possibly two weeks after December 15 to apply for our retirement visa.
I am trying to decide whether we should spend the money to get the 180 day visas for my wife and granddaughter or make the side trip to Peru that I have seen other people mention on this and other forums.
If anyone has any experience or suggestions with how this exit the country and return strategy/tactic actually works, I would appreciate the details. The cost of the 180 tourists visas, including the fees our facilitator charges would be about $700. So, the bottom line is does making a quick trip to Peru cost less than $700 and does it work?
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You can make a quick trip to Peru much cheaper than that if you use public transportation. However, with a three year old, that is more complicated! For adults it is a great adventure, but it means many hours in buses and shared taxis. Even days, but it was the best part of my trip, a real adventure and gorgeous country. I went to Macara from Loja (gorgeous drive!) because I wanted to see something there - that was very adventurous too, tramping through fields and forests looking for an archeological site! But from there it is easy to get a bus and get to Piura. There is not much to see there, though, one small archeo site. I wanted to go to Chiclayo, Trujillo etc for the excellent museums. But you could do that and come back. I cant recall if you have a car and of course I dont know about the bureaucracy of driving there. I came back through Chachapoyas. To get to the border I had to spend a day on various forms of transportation, but the scenery was so jaw dropping awesome that I was not bored for a second. I statred earlies - 8-9 and was in Zumba by the evening. Really a great day, off the beaten for sure. I had to wait at the lonely river border crossing - the only one crossing! - and take a bone shattering truck bus (forget the name) on a very rough road to Zumba, where the driver dropped me off at a "good" hotel. It was great fun. The next day I went to Vilcabamba where I had a reservation. There is a normal bus station. The road is rough at first but then it is ok. Then after a couple of days I went to Cuenca and onwards, completing my loop around Ecuador and taking a plane home from Pasto in Colombia, the only affordable one. I dont know what it was, but the Ecuador prices were outrageous - the earthquake?? Plane fares to and from Peru are outrageous. I loved this route but with a three year old, very problematic. But she probably doesnt pay bus fares! There are buses to Macara from Loja. I didnt want to wait for the bus so I found a shared taxi. This is not easy because they are not allowed to circulate at the bust station. I was waiting there - the local police were very cool - and a taxi driver took me to a guy down the road. Sort of whispered in my ear and off we went. Stupid regulation though, bus companies rule there. I stayed in the center in Macara but there is a nice hotel a bit further out, you can google. If you drive, you could not take the road to Zumba - there is none! And when I went to Ecuador they had to make a phone call at the border, because they have no computer at that isolated crossing point! But my passport was stamped, they just wanted to check because the data was not in the computer system. So for a visa run, I dont know but that is my best memory of the trip! I found a site for you, good luck!: http://andestransit.com/portal/en/peru-ecuador-border-choices-for-crossing
Ça pourrait vous être utile.
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