Hotel Central Chiclayo

... edge of the jungle. It was a long ride, taking us over the Andes and to the town of Tarapoto at the edge of the Amazon Basin. We have been hangin out here for a few days, swimming in the waterfalls, and getting to know the local people. Jungle folks are really nice, and every one of them has an interesting story that they are just waiting to tell. The town is really cool as well, the streets are ...

... d gone from lush green cloud forest covered mountains, to the barren yellows and oranges of the andes out of the window, (With some mighty high drops!!) To basically desert! <br><br>So chiclayo is essentially a town which you can shop, eat and mooch around but not much else. I'm sure there's over treasures if you have time to seek them out! Bit of hilarity when we go out for our first lunch. Theres a meal del dia or almuerzo (which ...

... to where you started. When we finally got to the top of the sand dune we plopped down on the hot sand gasping for air and feeling like we had just climbed up hundreds of feet. We looked back and could easily see the bottom - a mere hundred feet below. We started putting on our boards and Andy growled, &#8220;Aargh-my binding is broken!&#8221;. We had inspected the equipment before we paid for the ticket, but we didn&#8217;t&#8217; notice that one of the &#8220;bindings&#8221; was missing ...

Le matin, nous prenons un combi pour la capitale de la region, Lambayeque. Ici nous visitons le Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipan (photo interdite) ou sont exposes les tresors retrouves dans une tombe royale Mochica. En effet en 87, le Dr ALva denote une augmantation de nombre d'objets anciens sur le amrche noir. Il mene son enquete et decouvre que des huaqueros (pilleurs) ont decouvert un tombaux. La police met fin a ce ...

... in this beautiful museum in Lambayeque. My only complaint about the museum is that they don't allow photos and don't sell postcards. I would've bought a bunch, too, because really the items in this museum are beyond belief! Even the building is a work of art! You have to put this on your must-do list if you're in northern Peru and it's worth going out of your way ...

... a 2 sol mototaxi to the bus stop and then paid for a S./1.20 bus to Lambayeque, where the museum is located). Before going to the museum, we walked around the historical Plaza de Armas (city center) of Lambayeque which was quite nice, with a beautiful church (cathedral?) and then visited the longest wooden balcony in South America, pretty cool. Anywho, couldn't take pictures in the Sipan museum, but they had loads of great Moche metallurgy and ceramics stuff from ...

... pisco sour en un restaurante super lindo, fuimos a cine. Hay mucha influencia gringa en los centros comerciales que hemos visto. Hay MacDonalds en todas partes, restaurates gringos por doquier, casi igual que en Guayaquil. Pero Guayaquil ya era el colmo. Era como estar en un mall en Gringolandia. NO mas Chiclayo...ahora Trujillo!

... Peru, but that's the place where you can find ruins of plenty of pre-Inca civilizations, so I really wanted to see them. We started in the morning with Túcume, a city of 26 adobe pyramids built more than 1000 years ago by the Sicán (or Lambayeque) people. Those pyramids have been quite damages by time (and El Niño's rains!),, but it's still an amazing and terrific sight. After that we went to the Sipán site and the Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán. Twenty years ago ...