Casa De Reposo El Boqueron Huanchaco

... die niet wakker te krijgen was. De Carlos was zo diep in slaap, dat hij niet meer goed wist dat hij aan het werken was :-) We hadden in onze reisgids gelezen dat Huanchaco de ideale uitvalsbasis is voor de verschillende uitstappen die men kan doen rond de grote stad Trujillo. De reisgids gaf ons eveneens het advies om te verblijven in Casa de Suiza, wat we zeker iedereen aanraden te bezoeken wanneer men in Huanchaco wil verblijven. De kamers zijn ruim en het eten ...

... in its day, mazes of walls, intricately decorated, opening onto big courtyard - ceremonial areas.... with lots of smaller rooms off teh sides... the decorations were maionly fish and nets and funny man shapes... and it used to be painted white. They are in the process of reconstructing a lot of it, so we watched the workers for a bit, building and painting walls (as well as injecting the walls with something!)... it ended with a massive tomb surrounded by lots of smaller tombs where ...

Tuesday 20th October<br>Arrived in Chiclayo at about 5.30 in the morning and took a shuttle to another town and then a taxi to a museum where they have finds from the tomb of the lord of Sipan. I have seen a documentary, Around The World in 80 Treasures, where the old geezer came to this museum and also went to Chan Chan which was where I would head later in the afternoon.<br>The museum didnt open until 9am, so I sat outside for a few hours waiting, until an internet place and a ...

Since Banos we have done a fair amount of bus rides and not stayed anywhere too long. As a result I cetainly felt a bit tired as our bus rolled in Trujillo. I was pleased to be in a taxi within a few minutes and to be heading back to a Pacific beach town- this one named Huanchaco. We ended up spending three nights and a further day whilst awaiting our on-going night bus to Lima. <br><br>The first night featured a semi-posh dinner in what seemed a ...

Just outside the small fishing village of Huanchaco are some Chimu and Moche ruins called Chan Chan (named after the Peruvian love of Jackie Chan films), so we thought we´d have a day of culture and check them out. We met a Polish chap who was staying at our hostel and so he tags along too. We named him Pavlov (not his real name, we can´t remember it but for some reason that is what we called him) and he spoke far better Spanish than all of us put together, and he ...

... Finally, a brief word on Peru in general. It's so cheap! I can live so easily on less than $5 a day on food and accommodation is also cheap. As long as I don't get a bus anywhere I seem to be spending hardly any money. This is a good thing as there are so many beggars around, mostly older people and often wearing traditional indigenous dress. I've started giving them some money... it's pretty horrible situation and the poverty seems much more pronounced than it did in ...

... of the site where they were found, and it was amazing to see the extent of the restoration work performed. Additionally, there were enormous, intricate gold and turquoise earrings with deer, ducks or the Lord of Sipan on them, and large collars constructed of tiny pieces of spondylus seashell.<br><br>The museum kept me occupied for several hours and then it was onto my next destination: the city of Trujillo. I arrived in the dark on a Friday night, without a hotel reservation. I don ...

... the sea is boiling over - there is more froth than sea. Its wintry low season here - gray skies and cold water, but there are still quite a few surfing dudes loafing around, just like me... I'm doing the loafing bit rather than the surfing bit. You can tell surf dudes a mile away - they fulfil every surf dude stereotype that you can imagine. Perhaps I've missed spotting the surf dudes that don't look like this, but I'm quite sure I ...

... in lumps and generally looking scabby. Amazingly, I also bumped into a guy from my old school who had just finished last year, and his friend who was from my sister´s school... small world!<br><br>Back in Huanchaco we went for lunch to a small restaurant run by a family, and were watched curiously by their cute wide-eyed baby who kept scampering towards us from the confines of its play mat, only to be replaced every time by her watchful father. The ...

So it was time to bid farewell to Joan in Lima. Ended up spending two nights in Lima, we not too interested in spending too much time sharing a crazy city with 9 million other people...<br><br>Stayed in the Miraflores area which is the nicer part of the city, with a nice park and ...