Peru. In without onward ticket?

Hi Vagabonda,
You dont need to buy any bus ticket in advance just show you ticket leaving from Chile and tell the immigration officer you will cross from Peru to Chile thru Tacna (a peruvian city near the bourder) and this bus ticket needs to be buy in Tacna and just smile this make things easier some officers are dodgy but when you smile they dont bother
good luck
citiman

BTW try to book your hotel in Lima before enter the country
it makes your arrival easier where in Lima? downtown is nice but Miraflores is safer you can find all kind of accommodation even budget here is some i know:
www.hostalschell.com and www.huaychulohotel.com
These hotels are well located of course there are others but i i know these ones.
Salud con Cristal
Citiman

The following are previous posts on this issue:

Though the law states that onward tickets are required, no immigration officials will ever check when you enter. However airlines may refuse to allow check-in to destination without an onward ticket, because THEY are responsible by law to check this detail, and must foot the bill for your return if entry denied. It is totally up to them.

It is a very bad idea to buy only a one-way ticket to South America because you will find that the one-way fare back to the U.S.A., Europe, Canada and the like will be very expensive sometimes equal to what you would have paid for a roundtrip to get there. Try to book a round-trip ticket to South America if you can.

It is the airline, not the immigration authorities, that may require a round-trip ticket. If you are deported from the country, the airline must return you to your original point of departure; if you have no return ticket, it has to do this at its own expense.

Just a word of warning to anyone thinking of entering any countries in South America without an onward ticket, always check with with your airline from your city of departure before you buy your ticket, it will save a lot of stress and worry just before you fly!.

* The problem is not Immigration, but the airlines. You will not even make it to Immigration with some airlines as they will refuse to let you board. I got a one way ticket for a real good price with Avianca to Rio de Janeiro. I called them and they were rather blunt on the phone letting me know that they will not let me board their plane without a return ticket. So I got myself another one-way ticket from Cancun to Florida for less than US$ 200 for 6 months later and went to the airport real nervous and crossing my fingers as I was not sure if Cancun back to US would be good enough for them. Seeing I was flying into Rio de Janeiro. Well, I had a young lady who's first or second day on the checkin job it must have been. Her English was very bad and I made my Spanish even worse. She was confused about a few things, one of them the return ticket issue. So she called her chief which was real busy. I understood they were talking about the return ticket issue so I said in real broken Spanish that I have a reservation for a return ticket. I took my folded e-ticket confirmation out of my pocket. At that point the superior said ah, he has an e-ticket... the young woman was a bit embarassed and just moved on. Never looked at the confirmation AT ALL. Could have been a picture of a freshly shaven sheep for all she saw. In the end it was no problem at all. But who knows if I had had a different clerk who is having a shitty day.....

Jorge Daniel Barchi.
Buenos Aires.

It may be but SA is not like Europe or US
Tourists won't stay here to work ilegally as some latin americans may do when they travel abroad.
And Vagabunda has a ticket departing from Chile so she is not going to stay in any south american country
Good luck
Citiman

Your RTW ticket is the proof of your ongoing trip so there is no reason why would you be asked for any other tickets. We traveled around SA, arrived to Rio and left from Santiago, crossed Brazi, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile borders and weren't asked even once for any confirmation. Good luck with your trip.

Usually airlines are thougher on proof of onward travel than immigration (because if immigration refuses you, the airline that brought you is responsible to take you out if you don't have a ticket out). OP has an RTW ticket so should be alright.