Regents Trujillo

... ruins, dating back to 100-800AD. We have heard them described as pyramids of dust. Whoever said that obviously never went inside...

You are greeted by a few Peruvian hairless dogs, each one uglier than the next. Shame, I wonder if they know what they look like. They actually seem like a really friendly breed, hairless twig of a tail wagging, coming up to you for a pat. All they ever get are shrieks of how hideous they are and ...

... njoj, presmijesno. :D
Navecer isli pascal i ja van, nasli se s couchsurferima, peruanac, peruanka i englez. totalno cudni ljudi. peruanka se zove sabina, ali joj se ime ne svida pa govori kako se zove sabrina. presmijesno. isli spavati u 1h jer je bilo predosadno, osim toga, nakon dvije noci provedene u busu nisam mogla vise drzati oci otvorene.
drugi dan u trujillu smo visili na jaaako sporom netu pola dana, jeli i sjeli na bus za mancoru, gradicu na plazi :)

... Complex, which has been extensively restored and redone, to the point of seeming a little fake in places for all its perfection. We visit this enormous section of the town after a whirl through the mediocre Museo de Sitio. Large squares and plazas are adorned with geometric patters, simpler than the Moche but still imposing.

From Chan Chan, we make a token visit to the beach town of Huanchaco. In the low season, it looks like a great place to chill for a few days, if only I had ...

... its possible to make it. Yum.

A couple of days here winding down and then back to Lima for my flight on Thursday morning. I've done absolutely nothing but read a book, look at the Pacific and feed my face for the past couple of days. A perfect end to a really great month in Peru. Normally, I get quite itchy for going home after a few weeks away - I tend to get a bit sick of travelling about, living out of hotel rooms and ...

... prominently by the handful of revellers in its rather sorry-looking "Discotequa" on a Saturday night.

In the evening we had to get a colectivo to Trujillo to get our bus tickets to Lima for the next morning. A colectivo is a battered looking mini bus; as the driver kerb crawls for passengers, another bloke hangs out the window shouting out the destination amongst inane noises (e.g. "Trujillo! Trujillo! La la la..." The vehicle moves painfully ...

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tomorrow is officially one month! 6.5 more to go. and yay, 10 days till karim and lisa get to cusco and we meet up. and 1.5 months till cam gets here! hurrah!!!

After an uneventful border crossing at 4am, we ended up in Piura, a coastal town in Peru.

- Why do short fat Latin American guys (like the ones next to you on long bus rides...) spread their legs unnaturally wide and hog the ´neutral´ arm-rest?
- Why are taxi drivers all c***s? "It´s so far away, the route is complicated and it´s dangerous, you can´t walk it..." Yep, it was only 4 blocks away - thank god we´d walked.
- Why are the bus drivers in league ...

... Luna (the temple of the sun and the temple of the moon). The temple of the sun was used as a political office and the temple of the moon was used as a religious temple.

These pyramid like remains are huge, taller than the pyramids in Egypt. We visited the inside of the ...

... the outer layer. This means that only parts of the 2nd & 3rd temple are visible. It is still a hugely impressive site though - the main public façade has also been preserved - a 6 story build full of ancient reliefs. As well as the friezes there are gruesome stories of human sacrifice and mystical rituals to fire your imagination! Next to Huaca Del Luna is a building 3 times the size - Huaca Del Sol. This building dates from the same time but there are ...

Wedding Day! Wendy has rented me a "black tie" (dinner jacket) for the ceremony. I don this and take a taxi to my daughter's house. All taxi fares in Trujillo are the same, S/. 2.00 within the city core, S/. 3.00 for close-in suburbs and S/. 5.00 for outer suburbs. (US$ 0.65, US$ 1.00 and US$ 1.60 respectively). With taxi fares like this, you can see why so few people feel the need to buy a car here. The ceremony is at 11 ...