Huanchaco Hostal

... really very nice". It was a plate of cold vegetables with a spicy green sauce poured all over it, it was disgusting! We had as much as we could but it was a real dissapointment.<br><br>The sun nwas setting over the beach and we got some really nice pictures, that will no doubt distort our memories into thinking it was a great place when we look back on the pictures in years to come...<br><br>Anyhoos, onto the bus station (Movil Tours) and onto ...

... om daarna met de nachtbus te vertrekken naar Huaraz.<br><br>Ciao!<br><br>PS: foto´s volgen<br><br>English version:<br><br>Señoritas y Señores, bienvenidos a Peru!<br><br>After 20 hours on the bus and 26 hours moving, we arrived in Huanchaco, Peru. The paradise for many surfers and sunbathers... It was also a relief for us after so many hours on the road and the many montains in the Andes. It was a very hard journey from Cuenca to Huanchaco, but the night bus was ...

... I bought him a rod a few years ago for his birthday... and we lived on a canal..abit like his easel, but thats another story!)... anyway, the lady took the fish and put it in her bucket! Al was like a big kid, he wouldnt let me have a go, and kept trying to catch another one until all the bait was used up!<br><br>We then relaxed abit and I dozed for an hour until it was time to get a taxi to the next night bus - it was a nice place in the daytime, but we had seen what we came for ...

... times and is the largest adobe city in the world at around 20km. Pretty impressive, you would think. Well, actually, it wasn't. Although I met the American ambassador in Peru, who was being treated like some form of celebrity, I was distinctly disappointed. Although the scale of the site is incredibly impressive, much has been eroded away (what with being made of mud, ya see). What is left has been largely restored, giving it a shiny new look. It's hard in some places to ...

... going before videoing the taxi driver and his credentials. This was not done for all Arequipa taxis, but a taxi carrying a lone gringa at night (8pm) clearly seems a good target for heightened security. I was also often videoed (along with other passengers) getting onto buses, and I could never buy a ticket without my name and passport number. If I went missing, the government could quickly track down at least the last town I had been in.<br><br>But there remain problems. Arriving in Lima at ...

... hours to kill, so we wandered in the shops, bought food and played cards. There was some form of ludicrous show going on in a central location on a small stage, scantily clad girls (good times) prancing about with incongruous and spasticated clowns and general freaks (bad times), all to the beat of a ludicrous cheery soundtrack. Only in Peru.<br><br>After a bit more of this we hopped in a taxi and headed to the Linea ticket office in the centre of town. Brilliantly, there was no ...

... so we h*d to get tickets for * bus *n hour l*ter th*n we would h*ve w*nted. Luckily the termin*l w*s devoid of urchins so this w*sn´t too b*d. The bus to Trujillo w*s supposed to t*ke three hours but for some re*son took just over five. The l*ndsc*pe on the w*y w*s quite surre*l, huge exp*nses of desert with the se* in the f*r dist*nce to the west on our right, interspersed with r*ndom little sh*nty towns, * l*ndfill site *nd * huge *re* of wh*t *ppe*red to be gi*nt mole ...

... and headed off to kill 5 hours before my 3rd night bus in a row - to Huaraz. Can´t wait to get there and have a proper bed for a night...<br><br>I got talking to 2 locals here, apparently a medical student and a chef, who were both going to Ecuador tomorrow. They joined me for a meal in a cheap Chinese place. One went off to get their dollars for their trip during dinner, as the other complained how bad it was that they couldn´t directly withdraw dollars, only ...