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City transport
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It's a fairly simple matter to find your way around the rest of this huge, spread-eagled city. Almost every corner of it is linked by a regular
municipal bus service
, known to everyone as El Bussing, with flat-rate tickets (around $0.2) bought from the driver as you board. In tandem with these are the privately owned
microbuses
, older and smaller, more colourful and equally crowded, but again with flat rates (25?). Quickest of all Lima transport,
combi colectivos
race from one street corner to another along all the major arterial city roads. You'll see "Todo Arequipa" or "Todo Benavides", for example, chalked up on their windscreens, which indicates that the colectivo runs the whole length of Avenida Arequipa or Avenida Benavides. Colectivos dash dangerously fast, frequently crashing and speeding off before their passengers have got both feet into the vehicle, and might be anything from a ramshackle Dodge Coronet to a plush fifteen-seater minibus; wave one down from any corner and pay the flat fare (around $0.4) to the driver or fare collector. You can catch colectivos or buses to most parts of the city from Avenida Abancay.
Taxis
can be hailed on any street, and cost $2-4 to most central parts of the city. It's worth reiterating that
driving in Lima
is incredibly anarchic - it's not that fast, but it is assertive, with undertaking happening as often as overtaking and drivers, especially
taxistas,
finding gaps that don't appear to exist (one reason why there are so many damaged cars). Other useful information
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Peru,
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