Portada Del Sol Trujillo

... br>Unsurprisingly not much got done the next day.<br><br>On the final day we visited the pre Chimu sites of the the Temple of the Sun and Moon. These were done by the Moche Empire but the Arcaeologists only got to work in 1995 and I reckon in 40 years it will be quite something to see once they get more of the bloody sand out of the way.<br><br>This left time for a surf in Huanchaco. It was hard work for punny dweebs like me and Chief, but ...

... for the remainder of the day and also spent some time with the pet tortoises!<br><br>Trujillo is an important stop for us to explore one last bit of Peruvian history and culture before we leave. Even though we know nothing can be more impressive (to us) than the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu, we want to see anyway.<br><br>The main attraction is the Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna (Temple of the Sun and Temple of the Moon) which are PRE ...

... and preferably French, too, since they're all over Peru. It can't cost that much to translate signage.<br><br>Regardless, I start my day at the Museo de Sitio by the old pyramids, a museum so new, I might add, that it's not in my guidebook. Inside, I am introduced to the history of the Moche people and shown select artifacts from their culture. It's all very interesting without being information overload. You don't get to the point of, oh...look...another case of arrowheads...yawn. I find ...

... around a little bit more checking out the Trujillo sports stadium and then returned to get Andy on the tour bus. He was going to see the same exact tour we had seen 2 moths ago - Chan Chan, Huanchaco, Temple Sun and Moon. I headed out back to the tour agencies to bargain for sand boarding. Jen would arrive the next morning and I wanted to set us all up for a sand boarding trip. After that I went back to the corner café for lunch and ran into two university students who ...

... moved to 9am, so after our hasty journey we actually had time to kill. We busied ourselves eating sandwiches; Claire though was thoroughly ****** off by the fact that hers was ham, despite specific instructions to lazy bint cook woman to make it cheese, making that two non-vegetarian friendly repasts in a row. At 8.50am we queued for the bus. We became suspicious that something was not quite right when we were fingerprinted before boarding. There were also security staff diligently ...

... to think it ok to *llow more people on the bus th*n there were se*ts.This me*nt th*t some utter cretin w*s *ctu*lly lying on the ground in the *isle between me *nd Nicki. He kept lying on my feet which were in the *isle due to in*dequ*te leg-room. Nicki l*ter discovered he´d left her * p*rting gift - * r*ndom bone beside her feet. Lovely.<br><br>The border crossing *t M*c*r* w*s *bsolutely fine - no scr*bbling urchins *s we worried there might be. The bus dropped us off ...

... Th*t night we he*ded out to the posh mir*flores *re*, full of c*sinos *nd the like. After mucho deb*te *s to where to e*t i negoti*ted * 3 free drink de*l with *n it*li*n pl*ce. kind of sm*ll so we divided into 3 t*bles, sod´s l*w here h*d to pick the t*ble with the piece of pl*stic gl*ss in the pizz* t*ble *nd thus h*d to listen to much h*ggling etc. Mostly *ll fed, we looked for * K*roke b*r (don´t know where this desire h*s come from), found one, stuck our ...

... ended and Wendy and I, along with the rest of the group, were given minibus rides back to Trujillo.<br><br>After I had all my bags packed and ready to go for my final stop in Peru, Vanessa was kind enough to call a radio taxi to come pick me up. I assumed Vanessa was particularly looking forward to that evening as it would just be her and Tom alone at the hostel. Her mom was away meeting up with her husband who was on his ...

... withdraw more money from one of the atms just outside the bank when the same cashier came out as well and asked for us to come back to the cashier desks as there seemed to be a problem with one of the notes...<br><br>She explained to us that a &#8220;50 soles&#8221; note was actually fake. They seemed sympathetic and apologised that I had received this fake note. They were aware that fake money circulating was unfortunately a common problem in ...

... dancers for the evening followed. Marinera is a northern coastal Peruvian dance. From what I saw, the dance is mainly about the man courting the woman; the woman teasing the man and playing hard to get. The dancers waved handkerchiefs in the air as they moved. There was a lot of Spanish influence in the dance and was beautiful to watch. The woman had her dark hair tightly worn in a bun, wore a long colourful flowing dress and danced barefoot; the man ...