Casa de Clara Trujillo

We arrived in Trujillo at about 6pm on the Monday night. It claims to be the second city in Peru after Lima but seemed much smaller than Chiclayo. On arrival we got a cab straight to our hostel, Casa de Clara. It is basically the family home of Brummie Michael White, his Peruivan wife Clara Brava and their various offspring but is constantly invaded by us paying guests. As soon as we walked in we ran into a group of English people and ended up going out for dinner/drinks with them to an Engli...

As we had a couple of hours to kill before taking the bus from Lima we headed out in search of a restaurant. Came across a great Chinese, and filled our face, was brill. The bus we took was also fab, best one we had had in ages. As they were cama seats (reclined almost all the day) there are usually 3 in a row, so as there were 3 (us and Robbie) of us we had our own compartment to ourselves. We arrived early and managed to get a taxi to the hostel (Casa Clara), which was a bit weird but ok, w...

Got the day bus from Trujillo to Huaraz, as recommended by Clara at the hostel that we stayed in as she said that the scenery was amazing and it only took 7/8 hours. It was a hell of a journey. We left Trujillo at 6am, had to change buses at Chimbote (such a dump) and got on a clapped out piece of junk, remisccent of our Bolivia days! The entire journey ended up taking us 12 hours and the first 10 hours the scenery was nothing special, all rocks and the sun was so strong that we couldn't look...

Trujillo

After the surprise of arriving in Peru and finding a very typicaly european beach resort town, the shock of which forced us to lie down on the beach for three days, we headed south down the famous Pan American highway to our next stop, Chiclayo. We have spent 6 days in northern Peru spending our time looking at Peru history and blowing our noses. Two and a half months since leaving the motherland we have both been landed with our first colds. We've been visiting the area, very historical, a ...

I finally left Huaraz on Sunday evening and headed to Trujillo on the night bus, about a 9 hour ride. Stayed at this great hostel, Casa de Clara. The owners, Michael (from England) and Clara (from Peru) are also tour guides and took those of us who arrived that morning on a tour of the ruins in the area. Although after my experience at Chavin I was a little nervous about taking a tour it was great! I had my own private tour as all the others (Jimena and her husband from Argentina, on their ho...

Author: Beverley Hunt We arrived in Trujillo at about 6pm on the Monday night. It claims to be the second city in Peru after Lima but seemed much smaller than Chiclayo. On arrival we got a cab straight to our hostel, Casa de Clara. It is basically the family home of Brummie Michael White, his Peruivan wife Clara Brava and their various offspring but is constantly invaded by us paying guests. As soon as we walked in we ran into a group of English people and ended up going out for dinner/drinks...

I enjoyed my two full days here in Trujillo , which is the third largest city by population in Peru behind Lima and Arequipa. I spent one day exploring the city itself , which is very pleasant and known as "la ciudad de la eterna primavera" (the city of eternal spring) and a second day on a tour which visited a number of nearby places of interest. Apparently Trujillo wants to be a UNESCO world heritage site like the historic centres of Lima and Arequipa but hasnt been nominated yet which seem...

Hi everyone, Hope you are all well... Well we made it into Peru, not without incident unfortunately! The border between Ecuador and Peru at Huaquillas is very strange, with the border formalities away from the actual border (by about 7 km on the Ecuador side). Unfortunately some of the locals take advantage of this situation and we got taken for a bit of a ride, and got given fake money when we changed at the border. Luckily it was only $100 worth between the 3 of us so no big deal, just anno...