Las Garzas Chiclayo

... are made of local fresh water reeds. They're sort of shaped like half a banana. Made by a load of strapped together reeds, with a hole in the middle for fishing paraphenalia and the day's catch. You can see them out beyond the breakers, with they seem to paddle through with infinite ease (and only a 20cm wide half bamboo pole for paddle). Then surf back in before lunging the boat back up the beach over they're shoulder's. Bearing ...

Feeling pretty tired from a sleepless night in Loja we head off at the crack of dawn for yet more bus journeys. We are making our way to Peru and have to go through our first overland border crossing...something that we were all a wee bit anxious of. We get to Mancara the border town and after the bus driver has stopped for lunch we make our way to the border, which is a bridge. There are armed guards on both sides and a sign thanking us for visiting ...

... bit of panic, a procedural nightmare. Firstly, cancelling Steve's credit card, which was something he was completely clueless about. Then, to the police to file the report. This took forever as we trawled across town to talk to the owner's of the internet cafe then they took forever to take all my details (they're all there, written very clearly on my driver's license, for God's sake!). I then had to return to the doctor to get another prescription (yes, they even took ...

... since the bindings were so loose. And we kept going straight-just more off balance. It took us a little while to get the hang of it, each of us periodically swapping boards to see what fit who best and so Andy wasn&#8216;t stuck with his ****** board the whole time. Eventually we headed further up the ridgeline and tried steeper slopes where we might be able to move a bit faster. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I would like to try it again - maybe with better boards though.<br> By ...

<br>We drove through a desert landscape where you would think it would be impossible for people to live. Yet, off the side of the highway, the odd tiny settlement would pop up. Sometimes people even managed to cultivate corn. It was flat and dusty as far as the eye could see, not surprising, but not exactly how I pictured Peru either. <br><br>We found a nice little place to stay within the metropolis of Chiclayo to allow us to explore ...

... 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 ...