This American couple is stranded in Peru after president close borders over coronavirus pandemic: 'Mayhem'
On March 12, Tiffany Thomas, 28, and Evan Barna, 29 — Ohioans living in New York City, where Barna is pursuing his master’s degree at New York University —went on a much-anticipated trip to Peru for his spring break. Within a few days, they became two of about 1,500 Americans who have found themselves stranded there following President Martín Vizcarra’s sudden announcement that he was closing the country’s borders. This is their story, as told, by Thomas, to Yahoo Lifestyle.
I think the next day is when they banned the Europe travel, so that was alarming. I did get notification from work, as a change-management consultant for retailers, that I might have to be quarantined for 14 days upon return. [Evan, along with working towards his master’s degree, works in real-estate finance investment.]
We woke up at 3:30 am to walk to get our train and they were like, “Nope, closed.” Then we went back to our Airbnb to pack up and go straight to airport, the Cusco airport, which is very small. We got there around 4:30 a.m. and there were already lines outside of the airport, and I would say thousands of people. It was such a shock.
I just want to reiterate, because I feel like there are rumors going around that people missed their flights out, but that honestly makes my blood boil because there’s nothing we could’ve done. We paid a man to just be stranded. We couldn’t do anything to get out of this country, and we even thought about driving to Bolivia. There are about 1,500 Americans here — probably more in Cusco, just because they got stuck. So, people are stuck in areas where maybe there’s not enough food.
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