Las Garzas Chiclayo

... on buying us a beer and attempting to have a conversation even though there was no common language other than beer (just your usual Saturday night then really), we did however learn ´Salut´ (cheers).

Eventually, a couple who had sat down at another table next to us came to our rescue as Mary was a tour guide who spoke excellent English, and her husband worked at the Sipan museum in Lambayeque. Although even ...

... haircut from several barbers and hairstylists. They also sell hand-made PomPons for parties. But the most interesting part of the market is the witchcraft area which sells all kinds of animal skulls, incense, lizard skins, skulls, voodoo dolls, snake oils and magic potions. I have been having trouble with the leg that I broke riding in Colombia - it has been getting infected around the incision scar and so I ...

... cop pulls up alongside, shakes hands and asks what we are doing. We want a hotel with parking for the bikes. Red flashing light on follow me. We follow closely, at a left turn (equivalent to right in UK) he stops the traffic to let us through and we make the turn laughing in our helmets! He pulls up outside the Hotel Central which has parking opposite and guards our bikes while we check in and unload.
Another handshake and he's off into the sun.

I met up with Eric and Andy at the Transportes Linea bus station as soon as they picked me up we headed out to try sandboarding for the day. We decided to use one of the local tour agencies to do it and picked the same agency Andy had used from his city tours yesterday (they had worked out OK for him) and signed up. We opted for a slightly cheaper price of just having a driver and no instructor - we would, after all, surely have no problems sand boarding for the first time. We knew how ...

... orfevrerie de cette civilisation, mais surtout les pratiques funeraires en fonction de l'ordre social. Deux tombes sont reconstituees, celles de Huaco Loro. Dans la premiere un noble est en position foetale a l'envers, la tete coupee et retournee pour etre mise a l'endroit. Il y avait 2 femmes et un systeme de securite a base de Sinabrio, une poussiere rouge toxique. L'autre contenait aussi un noble assis en tailleur et ...

... It sounds hokey, but it really did give an incredibly good image and feeling for the pageantry of this culture. According to Lonely Planet, National Geographic covered this story in their October 1988 and June 1990 issues. The next stop was the Bruning Museum which houses archaeological finds from several cultures including the Mochico. I was allowed to photograph here ...

Today I woke up around 8am, becoming used to waking up early during this trip finally setting in, and used my lappy while Abrahan and Eva got up. Then we all went to visit a famous colonial-era house which was visited by (S.American liberator) Simon Bolivar, among other interesting stuff to see. Then they walked (the painfully long walk (for me) with my backpack ...

... nothing is open there is a lot of traffic. Once on the Pan Am highway we were greeted with a well paved road. We spent most of the day twisting our way down from the Andes into the town of Macara. The temperature here is much warmer than in the Andes. The town itself is a typical border town of which I despise.There is very little vegetation here and everything is ...

... speak to their boss, or simply say 'no hablo espanol' and wait until they get tired of you sitting there. No reports of violence though, just extortion, in the range of $5-50 per stop. So to prepare, I had made 20 copies of my passport, license and title. Jesse went as far as to make up face drivers licenses with a color copier and a laminating machine. So off we went, towards the border, 3 km south of Macara. As we were told, the border was a piece ...

... dans un resto du coin, je suis allée dormir... la pire des nuits de ce voyage! Je suis restée éveillée quasi toute la nuit à cause de (successivement et parfois en même temps): une alarme de voiture (3 heures non stop), la musique assourdissante du gardien du parking d'en face, un voisin de palier qui a été violemment malade dans la salle de bain au bout du couloir (deux fois une heure), la stridente sonnette de l'hôtel (2 fois), les dizaines d'oiseaux de la volière ...