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Los Faiques 101, Santa Victoria Chiclayo, Peru, 51-74-273445
Today I left Ecuador behind and started my journey south into Peru. I hate travel days, but they are anavoidable when you have big distances to cover. I had to be up early to get to the bus station in Loja before 7am, so I saw the sunrise that morning! Today I spent a total of 11 hours on a bus! An 8 hour bus ride from Loja across the border to Piura in northern Peru, then another 3 hours from Piura to Chiclayo. Actually, it wasn't too bad. I scored a reasonably comfy window seat, and althoug...
Chiclayo, Peru shesoffagain... mind these things can weigh up to 250kilos wet!!<br><br>Anyway so nice evening watching the sunset, suddenly realise it's getting dark and there's not a cab in sight. Tuktuk says no way he's going all the way back to town, oh no, maybe in a situation here. However luckily there's this transport in peru called colectivo minibuses. These are essentially a camper minibus which run up and down main routes and cram in as many, and i ...
Chiclayo, Peru escapingthenhs... and another one the other side of the bridge welcoming us to Peru. We exit Ecuador with no problems and walk over the bridge. As we are getting our passports stamped for entering Peru the guard asks Al his profession. He says in good Spanish that he is a doctor. The guard the proceeds to fall of his chair laughing.....and then asks Al again what he does for a living. Again Al repeats that he is a doctor and again the guards keels over gripping ...
Chiclayo, Peru al-lucy-lost... lovely drugs) before returning to the police station to give details of what had actually been taken.<br><br>By the time we had finished this rigmarole it was about 9.30pm. The crime had been committed at about 1.30pm. That's an awful lot of faffing around. By the end of the day I was exhausted and fairly annoyed. In fact, almost a week later, I'm still quite annoyed. Opportunistic theft can happen to anyone, of course, but I'm gutted to lose my camera (I loved that ...
Chiclayo, Peru lisa.gillespie... end of the 2 ½ hours we were about ready to call it anyway. We must have climbed up that sand hill about 20 times each and their wasn’t a whole lot of shade in the sand on a 90 degree day. We left the hill with a lot more appreciation for ski lifts - and with lot of sand. We were finding sand on us everywhere: in our pockets, under our fingernails, even in our Kleenex when we blew our nose! We wouldn’t be able to shower until late that night and we were leaving trails of sand ...
Chiclayo, Peru bjergaard... de 22 jeunes femmes. Malgre une forte presence economique, on ne sait pas grand chose de cette civilisation et notemment de sa religion car toutes les icones religieuses semblent avoir ete detruites lors d'un coup d'etat en 1100, puis par les Chimu. Je retrouve Lucie pour prendre le bus pour Chachapoyas, malheureusement, les departs sont annules car la route est bloquees par des indigenes. Nous retournons au Peregrino.<br>
Chiclayo, Peru bourlingueur... you can get an idea of what some of these items looked like. But none of these was as impressive as what was at the first museum...if you can imagine that! The most unusual item to me was the nose rings. These varied from small and simple to very large and ornamented. It is thought that the nobility were seen as part animal and that these guards covered their very ...
Chiclayo, Peru margreet98... me to the Emtrafesa bus station to get my bus ticket (S./13) to Chiclayo, where I'm located now. The bus ride, which I took at 11am) was ok, taking about 3 or 3 1/2 hours. I took the picture of the little baby girl *right* in front of me to prove my theory, but at least she wasn't super obnoxious (the whole time), it was during the day, and it wasn't a super long ...
Chiclayo, Peru christianbjork... Very little is open in town and we are hungry for some supper. We found a bar open and go inside this dark, filthy little hole in the wall. Men so drunk they are passed out on the table. Others singing out of tune to some depressing Spanish music. Others still hustling girls who look no older than 16 while the rest of them drink their spirits and constantly spit on the floor ...
Chiclayo, Peru chemoejito... cake, an cost nothing at all. They even made copies of our docs for their records instead of asking us for them. Then when we left, a Peruvian guard offered one piece of advice: don´t stop in Sullana. Piura is ok, but son´t stop before then. And he was right. First thing that happened is the landscape completely changed. From the mix of arid and tropical mountains and countryside we had seen since forever, suddenly we were in the Peruvian coastal ...
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