Hostal Royal Chiclayo

... great ruins of their ancestors and the strong traditions that are kept alive. We spent a few days in the city, trying exotic foods (¿BBQ´d cow heart after a night of drinking?), chatting it up with Chiclayans, and endlessly searching for a real cup of coffee. One day we took a Combi (van converted into a bus) to the ruins of Sipan. we spent the afternoon exploring the archeological site, and admiring ...

... keen on providing his address so that we could send him a postcard, so anyone who speaks good Spanish and wants to give him a call, let us know!). When we left, Frankli got up and followed us to the door, at this point we were slightly concerned that he may have been about to follow us back to England or something, but he just wanted to make sure we got across the road safely. Quite Frankli, a very good drinking buddy.

... somewhere. It ended up being 1.5 hours out of town with a short stop where our driver instructed us to say we were friends with him if we were questioned by the police… interesting. We were never questioned. Eventually we came up on a small mountain of sand, just off some guys farm. Not really sure what to expect, the driver told us to get out of the car and pulled out 3 homemade finished plywood boards that had Velcro foot straps for bindings. He gestured up the mountain and told ...

... to snag our lunch. Perhaps the most surprising was a White-tailed Deer that investigated the food table one day, then started to approach us. To the amazement of us and the staff, it then proceeded to nuzzle my arm and lick my shirt. <br><br>One down side to this reserve is that you must always be accompanied by a guide, but luckily ours was an excellent birder. He led us to a family of Striped Owls our first evening, and a group of 17 ...

... I'm here for one thing: El Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipan. Museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipan. In early 1987, an archaeologist noticed an unusual number of really stunning relics hitting the black market and thought maybe a new site had been discovered by robbers. It may be hard to imagine an ancient pyramid going unnoticed until that time but the environment of northern ...

... up with Eva (who I met in Trujillo) who was in town, so we all went together and had a blasty blast, taking pictures and trying to catch waves all day. Great 5 soles plates of fried fish with fries and rice, more surfing, and then ran back home to change my bus ticket date to tomorrow (instead of tonight). Good day! Tomorrow... more surfing. ;)

Chiclayo fué mucho mejor que Piura, donde no habia nada para hacer. En Chiclayo fuimos a varios museos en una ciudad super cerca que se llama Lambayeque. Ahi esta el museo de Broennin o aglo asi....es el nombre de un Aleman que vivió en la zona mucho tiempo y que hizó varios descubrimientos de artefactos indíguenas. Luego fuimos ...

... Sipán même. Il y a une vingtaine d'années des archéologues ont trouvé à ce site de la civilisation Moche une douzaines de tombes royales, certaines datant de 1800 ans, dont deux tombes de membres d'une même famille, enterrés à quelques centaines d'années d'intervalle. La richesse des objets trouvés est incroyable, et le musée présente tout ça en détails. Je n'ai malheureusement pas de photos du musée, c'est complètement interdit... Après ça j'étais bien fatigué mais ...