Hotel San Martin Trujillo

... a kebab and/or fight on the way. It was brilliant to watch but I did feel a bit culturally insensitive when I stepped on their hallowed turf with arms flaying and the hips doing sod all. Adrian took great care of us in there and is a true gent. We returned back to our hostel at about half six unfortunately waking our lovely landlady- "Chicos, where have you been?" "Dancing"(demonstrated on the spot by Alex)"Go to bed Chicos""Ok. Buenos Noches ...

... Which are the other things Chiclayo has, world-class museums to display the Sipan findings.<br><br>I wish Cuzco had something similar, having been generally disappointed with the quality of Cuzco's museums. The only thing I fail to understand is why two excellent museums, built in the last 10 years, and representing significant investments would contain only Spanish signage. Perhaps it's Anglo-centric of me, but it seems that if you wanted to attract tourists, you would have signs in ...

... for more than 20 for Andy. First stop, first person. 30 soles. Andy is a great negotiator. His Spanish is unfamiliar enough to him that he doesn&#8217;t try to talk, but just tries to listen. However, his concentrated listening face looks a lot like anyone else&#8217;s upset/annoyed face. Andy just stands there listening but looking like he is annoyed. The 30 sole offer dropped to 20 immediately. An hours worth of negotiating done in 1 minute with a stern face. <br> We ...

... to find a way through, but kept hitting dead ends. Eventually after a few more minutes of hunting he stopped the car, and explained that if we walked across some dirt land to our right, then continued down the street for a little while, we would reach the terminal. Grabbing our bags, and safe in the knowledge that we still had fifteen minutes left till departure, we gratefully paid our legend of a driver and made our way there.<br><br>On arrival, we discovered that the bus had ...

... were subject to * rigorous b*g se*rch *nd were p*tted down by over-ze*lous security. Not *nticip*ting this, I h*d left my swiss *rmy knife in my b*g *nd h*d to go b*ck into the hold *nd st*sh it in my ruck s*ck, before tediously joining the b*ck of the queue. Ne*r the front some bloke w*s being se*rched; he unwr*pped * co*t he w*s c*rrying *nd inside w*s * dove! He w*s w*ved str*ight on, of course.<br><br>The night bus w*s eventful in p*rt due to the f*ct th*t the comp*ny ...

... r*ther be..." song is *ctu*lly t*ke from some peruvi*n composer dude so not so r*ndom. did i re*lly just type dude?<br><br>Everyone w*s on the hunt for f*ncy dress which bec*me * little we*ring for me *fter * while *s Jon h*d secured brown f*ce p*int so i w*s completed but it g*ve the d*y some focus so i sh*n´t compl*in. I w*s concerned re the bl*cking up but *fter * beer *sked our only minority ethnic did he mind *nd he replied no *s he w*s going *s * suicide ...

... to the colourful Plaza de Armas and its colonial buildings on all sides. The city centre is definitely less ornate than Lima or Cusco...<br><br>The next day I did some tours of the local archaeological sites (booked the tours the day before with Colonial Tours - they did great and I recommend them), including Huaca de la Luna and Chan Chan, as well as the coastal town of Huanchaco...<br>

... to the site of the human sacrifice rituals where we listened to how human sacrifices were done at the time. If I had heard the story correctly, two soldiers would fight it out with each other. The next day the losing soldier would then by sacrificed by the women chief priestesses by slitting his throat while a cheering crowd would wait outside the walls to be shown the severed head &#8211; a very disturbing story. Soon enough the ...

... This was looking good &#8211; my 50 soles note was either in fact genuine or they had somehow missed the strange appearance of it all. Seeing it in clear daylight, it did seem poor quality in comparison to the other notes. I counted my money, thanked them and Wendy and I pretended to walk normally out. Pheww...we were sort of grinning to ourselves, thinking &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221;. But we were thinking that too soon. Wendy wanted ...

... and that we were going to have a good time that evening. The fact is much worse things have happened to other people while travelling. Wendy said that on the following day we could still try pass on the note at a supermarket or elsewhere; or go to a bank and have it checked. <br><br>The evening&#8217;s entertainment began with live music with an older lady singing beautifully and then followed by two kid dancers doing their marinera dance. Then the two ...