When we heard it was a 2 or 3 day trek on bad buses on bad roads to go the 'short' way back to Lima (according to the map), we looked at alternatives.
Alternative 1, used by most tourists on a short schedule, is to fly. The best price on the fly-by-night airline was $138 USD. LAN Airlines (the biggest airline in South America) would cost $150.
Alternative 2 was to take the bus on the good roads, the long way around. Cruz del Sur runs a luxury bus for the 21 hour trip, leaving Cusco at 6pm and arriving in Lima at 3pm the next day. This would only cost $62 each. So that's what we did.
We booked early and so got the upper front window seats on the double-decker bus. This bus has 'full cama' seats... wide seats, widely spaced, with a footrest. The very front seat has a little extra leg room so you can stretch out even more.
All in all, it wasn't too bad a trip. We spent most of the night sleeping while the bus driver wound his way around all the mountains between Cusco and the coast. Then we turned right at Nazca and followed the desert-like coast to Lima.
We drove right through the famous Nazca lines. Hard to get the famous perspective from a bus, though, even from a double-decker bus. But we did get a good picture of the sign :)
Here's a link that talks about the Nazca lines.
Our friends, the Darcourts, picked us up at the bus station for a weekend with their family, before we flew back to Ecuador.
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