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 interes...

It took us 3 buses ro get from Leymebamba to Trujillo. The first bus took us to a small and not interesting at all towen called Celendin in 8 hours. The favorite occupation of the local people during the ride was looking outside the windows and down the steep mountinside looking for whicales that fell down from the road (not too wide, not too sa...

I arrived in Trujillo once again too early in the morning and waited for the sun to rise before busing it over to the fishing village of Huanchaco just 15 k´s away. I found my five dollars was better spent there for a room on the beach listening to the waves crashing as opposed to more SAmerican street noise in Trujillo. Being out of season the ...

When waiting for the bus in Pedro - an expensive hours journey from Chachapoyas we met a guy from Belgium called Raphael. He had been waiting for ages for the bus to no avail. After 3 hours of waiting ourselves in the pooring rain we decided to take a small truck to the next town - even if it takes 2 days and 10 little journeys at least we shoul...

Morgens um 6 in Trujillo angekommen suchten wir uns ein Hostal und schliefen erstmal ne Weile, denn der Bus war soooooo schlecht. Am nachmittag machten wir eine Tour nach Chan Chan - der groessten Siedlung im Vor-Inka Reich (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Chan ). Am beeindruckensten ist, auf welche Flaeche sich diese Anlage ausweitet und dass...