This is due to a 4Km gap of pure desert between the 2 sides and also because, apparently, you get assaulted by locals trying to sell you everything and anything.
This wasn't a problem for us.
On a bike the 4Km gap is no issue and the border was actually completely empty at the time of our arrival due to the lunch break.
The only people at the border were us and 4 brasilian bikers
It took us 3 hrs to clear the formalities, but then we also managed to squeeze our lunch in between.
At 3pm we wished good luck to our brasilian friends. According to their plan they wanted to make it to Trujillo the same day (that is 10 hrs from the border crossing in the hostile desert at night!!!!)
Luckily our destination was much closer.
We stopped at the posada de los tumpis (13 km south of Zorritos) at 5pm and spent a whole week resting on the beach.
At the posada you really get that feeling of Robinson Crusoe.
There are kms of empty beaches
But soon things went back to normal.
Watching the numerous birds fishing in the ocean we wondered why this area has never been touristically developed.
Unlike most of the pacific coast, these beaches have warm waters all year around as they are not touched by the Humboldt currents.
Our theory is that investments in infostructures is not facilitated by the lack of water (we are in the middle of a desert), the area have experienced Tsunamis before and most importantly every 5/7 years el nino tend to destroy everything it finds in the area.
We have asked the locals how much it would cost to buy prime land close to the beach.
The answer was £25 per Sq meter to buy the land and £15,000 to build it.
Please note that the law says you have to build at least 50 meters away from the sea.
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