Costa del Sol Chiclayo

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

So after having settled into our hotel, we headed out for something to eat, being located close to the Plaza de Armas, we soon found a ´Footprint recommended´ establishment, La Plazuela. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, this particular one was very popular with locals but lacking on the English speaking staff. This therefore involved me dragging the waiter to the (very useful) photos in the ...

We got up and packed the camping gear back onto the bikes in the sandy desert, got them a little bit stuck in the sand but then headed back out onto the paved road from our beautiful morning camping site. It threatened to rain but we only had a couple of drops - our luck with the weather being pretty good - we avoided a rain storm somehow in the desert!<br><br>We rode about a hundred miles through the Sechura Desert ...

... There are hundreds of shanties with goat herds alongside the road, they must really struggle to survive.<br>We get a bit lost in Puira as usual in big towns the signs disappear but we eventually find our way out with a bit of help from locals.<br>We break the cardinal rule and don't top up with fuel at every opportunity, at 172 miles I stop and empty the blast 3 litres from my tank into Graham's and send him off to find fuel. We think there should ...

... around the coastal areas of Chiclayo and constructed large pyramids built out of adobe bricks around 300 AD. I don&#8217;t remember what happened to the Sipan people-they were probably conquered by the Incas and later by the Spaniards, like all the other tribes before them. Regardless, with the wear and tear of time, their pyramids degraded into earthen mounds and got forgotten about. This was until the late 1980 ...

I had some really great pics for Chiclayo... but alas, someone in the jungles of northern Peru is probably enjoying them right now as they snoop through the laptop they stole from me. I´ll be right back I need a tissue to dry my eyes :(<br><br>Chiclayo (and the surrounding area) is home to several interesting museums and sites with artifacts from the pre-Columbian era, particularly of the Moche civilization. I took a one day tour(tour ...

... itself was supriiisiingly easy (on both sides). I say suprisingly because I had heard many oral accounts on how ****** the border is, especially on the Peruvian side, where they ask for bribes, there`s thieves, etc., etc. Thankfully, I had none of these problems and whizzed right by both borders. My fun was in store for later on, it seemed. I arrived in Piura around 9.30am or so, and then shared a taxi with a ...

Just another super quickie... I went to Pimentel on my own as Ricardo and Eva went to see a museum I had already visited. I talked and surfed with "Nano", the surf shop owner, which was great... Then I surfed some more.. . Then Eva and Ricardo finally arrived, we had lunch, and then surfed some more... Then came back home a bit ago, and will take off to Mancora in about an hour... Bye....

... city of Sican, tomorrow and then head down to Trujillo or the nearby Huanchaco for more archaeological sites (especially Chan Chan) and also the beach! Off to eat dinner now, then watch the England game on ESPN. The sizes of the portions they serve up here are quite phenomenal for not very much money at all, not a place to come to lose weight....

... day of riding ahead of us today, I manage to check CBC news on line and catch up on Canadian news. It´s amazing how distant it all feels. As we left Piura this morning we are sent back driving through the desert. The Pan AM highway dotted with little towns for the first 40 kilometers.Again I can´t help asking myself how do these people live here or maybe I am just trying to ...