Piura, Peru Travel Blogs

Shiny boots in Piura, Peru
Aug 13, 2006

... Ten miles is as far as one hundred, or a thousand. The world is big. The world is tiny. It's time to go to Lima. Quantifiable Summary Bus from Guayaquil, Ecuador to Piura, Peru: 10 hours, $10. One day of internet: About 3 soles/hour. Still alive.

full circle...
Apr 8, 2008 (42 photos)

... eye while they stamp your documents with the other.  So we all get back on the bus for another 3 or 4 hours to Piura, Peru.  The sun sets dramatically over the ocean beyond the mountains....and the earth levels off a bit, getting more and more ...

Peru
Aug 7, 2004 (12 photos)

... have been easier. We drove over the border at Maccra and continued on until we arrived at Piura some 9 hours later!!!! The scenery change from Ecuador to Peru was quite drastic. Gone where the Andean Mountains which we were so used to seeing over the ...

Our first stop in Peru!
Jun 23, 2005 (1 photos)

... so decided to take the easy option and caught one bus which took us all the way from Loja in Ecuador to Piura in Peru! No exciting stories I´m afraid (although the mosquitos who ravaged me might disagree!), great scenery again but altogether easy peasy and ...

Is this coventry!!!!
Dec 13, 2006 (3 photos)

... that amy had to explain to me cos im rubbish!!! Once it was over i fell asleep until we hit the shabby outskirts of Piura.  The houses were constructed with bamboo poles and reed matting.  Very basic and to be honest we hadnt see those kinda ...

Piura for a night
Feb 20, 2007

Piura for a night, flying out to Cusco in the morning:)

Zoooming through northern Peru
Jan 20, 2009 (25 photos)

... brief bouts of entertainment. It was actually delightfully relaxing! Feeling rested we continued on towards the border, to a town called Piura. We planned to just stay there one short night and get to Ecuador the following day, but a farmers' strike ...

Quick stop over in a nice place
Jul 1, 2006

we had dinner here in piura saturday night, a late breakfast on sunday morning, and then we were on the road again. piura seems like a nice spot; the plaza de armas is clean and shaded by attractive trees and was full of people when we were there. but we ...

Border Crossing
Sep 5, 2007

Small town stopover. Need to make ourselves a plan!

Piura: eh.
Apr 13, 2008

... were reading it i was reading it too.¨ AAAAAAAAHHHH i believe i was channeling njp thinking, ¨why the hell are reading over my shouldr??????????¨ so that was the road to piura. oh i almost fell asleep on the weird boy who was reading my book. oh god.

San Pedro, Pachamanka and Peruvian Ponies
Aug 1, 2007 (16 photos)

People said, "It's grey and damp in Lima, you won't like it." Well, it is but we did. It is winter after all and what Scottish skies, although the "rain" was never more than a wee drizzle. We did the usual city stuff, museums, churches, falling over on ...

Our first Peruvian town...
May 18, 2007

... America.    NOTES FOR THE TRAVELLER:   - Transport: (Ecuador to Peru Crossing) Bus from Loja (Ecuador) to Piura (Peru) on Transportes International Loja (8 hours, $8 USD).  This bus stops at the border of Machala (at the 5 hour ...

Checkpoint Chico
Jun 25, 2006

... occupation as ´tile man´. Although ´unemployed´ would actually be more accurate at the minute. Selecting an unremarkable hotel in Piura, we decided to make the leap by air to the bright lights of Lima, thus cleverly avoiding any tiresome important-cultural ...

Piura
Dec 7, 2007

... made us supper. We had delicous lasagna and played cards. Today (Friday):  This morning we got up and walked around Piura looking for things to put in baskets that we were making for the families.  We did a lot more wandering then shopping. ...

1st stop off the Gringo trail/ Simon loses his rag
Apr 15, 2007

Will have to see how Northern Peru compares to the South... So cloase to the tropics -woohoo!

Camping In the Sechura Desert - PERU!
Aug 23, 2009 (20 photos)

... got ourselves a new camera and took the time to set it up - so you will start to see some pictures again! We left Piura, filling the bikes up with gasolilne in preparation for the 120 mile desert crossing that laid before us.  As sunset approached we ...

Day 44 - Loja, Ecuador to Piura, Peru
Nov 8, 2007 (5 photos)

The Guruzers are Peruzin.  We dropped out of our 11,000' cooool elevation to a once again hot 300' over the course of the day.  We accomplished our 10th border crossing successfully today. Usually, we hire someone to get us through, but ...

Welcome to Peru
May 1, 2007 (1 photos)

... on board. We first travelled up from Vilcabamba back to Loja, before catching a bus that went all the way to Piura in Peru. Passing over the border was fairly easy, as we completed our leaving paperwork at the Ecuador migration office before waving a sad ...

Piura
Jul 23, 2009

... ;everyone honking furiously. I never thought of traffic being particularily organized in Ecuador, but apparently it was. Piura was a pleasant overnight stay, complete with a quiet vegetarian restaurant within the plaza where we happily consumed different ...

Vilcabamba (Ecuador) to Piura (Peru)
Apr 30, 2007

... no photos are allowed to be taken... I nearly forgot this, but gladly remembered before I was due to be shot and arrested. Phew! Piura was a bit of a non-city and a very small oasis in the coastal desert of Peru. We stayed only one night before heading ...

Piura
Jan 26, 2009

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Adios awesome Ecuador, Peru awaits.
Sep 24, 2007

transit

Piura
Jul 22, 2008 (3 photos)

Peruvian city traffic is absolutely mental, it´s like what I would imagine Dehli to be but in Spainish. There are no lanes, few traffic lights and horns are used constantly, so you end up doing exactly the same. Intense.

Mancora
Aug 8, 2007 (5 photos)

... , close the bridge to the fisherman on them boats close to the bridge, in the sea or to far to the creek, the surfers in the beach, always founding the best waves, a great place in the north to Peru. 

Piura and Bus (53 bloody hours)
Jul 10, 2008 (17 photos)

07/07/2008 - 09/07/2008 Another awful bus journey, 53 hours in total with a few hours in Piura, a Peruvian town. Cruising down the North Pacifica highway there were some good views going through dunefields and small settlements, with the Pacific to our ...

Piura, Peru
Oct 19, 2005 (4 photos)

... Te beginnen met natuurlijk de Plaza de Armas en de bijhorende kathedraal. Beide stellen niet veel voor. Vervolgens richting Puente Piura, een oude voetgangersbrug over de Rio Piura. Daarna naar de Plaza Pizarro. Het is ondertussen siesta (die heb je ...

Puncture and crab soup
Oct 2, 2009

2nd october 2009 Hostal Aruba, Piura, Peru (S/25) Very hot Sullana – Piura (40 kms) We had a lie in today seeing as we were just popping down the road. About 15 kms out of Sullana I got a puncture, the first one in ages.  The tiny piece of road ...

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Sep 29, 2007

bus

A BUMP IN THE ROAD
Mar 4, 2009

... Sullana.  We boarded a bus but had no Peruvian soles to pay the ticket guy on the bus.  So when we reached Piura I dashed into a nearby bank and cashed in a $20 US dollar bill for Peruvian soles.  Later I got additional money from an ATM.& ...

Piura
Jun 23, 2007

... within minutes of crossing the border into Peru we were in semi-desert puntuated by a gaggle of oil pumps on one section. Piura is quite an interesting, bustling little city, even the shops were still packed at 9.30pm on a Saturday night. Went for a ...