Inca Chiclayo

... huge bottles so we were still going after having finished our food and this was when we noticed the two local guys at the table next to us who had already got through several bottles and tried to see how much beer they had offered to the beer god. It turned out it was for the dregs, but you had to twist the bottle once you got near the end and then empty the last bit into the glass. At this point, the two guys ...

... of the way there were many projects started, not finished and just a disorderly mess...

We decided to find a hotel in the city of Chiclayo, a city of about 500,000 people and Annette and I went for a walk through the city's enormous covered market that sells everything from the latest tennis shoes to electronic parts. You can buy all kinds of produce including some wild black corn, fresh meat and even get ...

... fuel close by but don't want us both to run out 5km short of a filling station.
I sit in the dessert in the half sun drinking water and eating nutty bars watching the sand blow in a thin film across the road.
35 minutes later G turns up with fuel, it was 25km to the filling station we would have made it but we did not know for sure.
Topped up with fuel we head on to Chicalayo and stop in the square to check the map for hostels. A ...

... told us that most of the interesting stuff at the site had been moved to the museum anyway. We wandered around the museum for a couple of hours, admired the gold craftsmanship, the ceramic pottery, and read about the Sipan culture.
The rest of the day isn’t really worth writing home about. We headed back to hostel to grab our stuff, headed to the bus station, and hopped on the night bus to Chachapoyas.

... des dieux. L'apres midi, pendant que Lucie reste a Chiclayo, je me rend a Ferreñafe au nord voir le Museo Nacional de Sican, seul musee sur la culture Lambayeque ou Sican. Cette civilisation prospera dans le nord entre 750 et 1375 lorsqu'ils sont conquis par les Chimu. Le musee est compose de pieces retrouvees dans leur ancienne capitale Tucume. Il decrit de maniere detaillee l'art de la ceramique, de la fonte et de ...

... of the gold and bead jewelry is beyond compare with anything I have see until now! It was almost overwhelming to absorb all the beauty from those tombs! At the end there was a room with robotically animated figures decked out in the gold and fabric we'd seen in the tombs.. Music made by ancient instruments was piped in and the gold glittered in the well placed lighting ...

... people dancing and partying in Ricardo's living room, hehe.. I'm super beat, since it was a long day and didn't sleep much yesterday. I'll (try, if possible, to) go sleep in an hour or two, kind of early, since tomorrow I think we'll go to Pimentel and Ricardo will attempt to teach me to surf, hehe.. Should be interesting. Then, I'm pretty sure I'm taking a bus to Mancora; I found one that leaves at 9.30pm, lasts about 6 hours and is S./25. Till' next time... peace.

Sunday December 7th I awaken this morning sneezing and coughing I have caught another cold, the weather is dark and I am sure it is going to rain. We try to find a place for breakfast this morning, however Loja is a very religious city and there is very little open on Sunday´s. After walking around for 20 minutes we give up our search. We try to leave town and get lost twice ...

... what we were told that they do is wave you over, and ask to see your drivers license or passport. Once you present it to them, they make up some reason that you have to pay them. The thing is, you kinda do, because they´ve now got your passport. So to counter this, we were told to present them with copies of your passport, and say that you only give the original at the police station, or to the Tourist Police. You can also take down badge numbers, ask ...