Blogs from Piura, Peru, South America - page 12

Took an overnight bus from Lima, a seriously comfortable bus with two movies shown and then totally darkness....actually slept most of the way. Arrived in Mancora (famous beach resort in Northern Peru) at 8.30am.... hordes of guys trying to convince you to go to different hostels and hostels.... anyway agreed with one fella and he called his friend the taxi driver over to bring us there...... by the way the taxi is a Tut-tut! Fine, no worries, rucksacks strapped in and off we go. Except that the paved road does not last long and over 20 mins later of pure pain bouncing up and down we arrive at the "hotel" - we took a quick look around but our first impression had been "run away as fast as you can!", lovely taxi driver smiled knowingly and ... read more

Emma writes I've always fancied being on a beach for new year. Ecuador's best beaches would mean travelling north again and we just don't have time to back track ( I think we might be saying that a lot on this trip). Next stop therefore had to be Mancora beach in north Peru. After making that decision we were told by everyone that it was the place of the biggest party in Peru for new year. Sounds busy. We had no accomodation booked, like everywhere else we've been, so no real worries there, something will work out. Getting off the bus there's a hundred mototaxi (a three wheeler motorbike rickshaw type afair) waiting to take us to the place of their choice. Everywhere has tripled their prices for new year, so we looked round a few. ... read more

Hola a todo el mundo de nuevo, despues de unos 10 dias sin dar señales de vida aqui estamos de nuevo. Como os dijimos en el ultimo post estabamos en Arequipa al sur de Peru, de ahi cojimos un bus hasta Lima donde estuvimos un dia y de nuevo carretera y manta hasta un lugar en el norte de Peru llamado Chiclayo. Ahi nos fueron a buscar Silvia (amiga de Rocio del Salvador) y Martin (su marido) y nos llevaron a un pequeño lugar remoto y desconocido al final de un desierto tocando el oceano mas bonito y mas lleno de peces que jamas hallamos visto. Este pequeño paraiso donde se pesca con embarcaciones de mimbre llamadas caballitos de Totora que usaban en tiempos de los Moches preincaicos y donde el tiempo no pasa y el ... read more

The shaman experience was pretty crazy.... Firstly to do the process properly, we had to go to the centre at 8am in the morning for the purging session. You drink this little cup of spicy liquid (whilst also being blessed with tabacco smoke, apparently helps) and then they provide 5 litres of water that you have to drink until you feel full each time. So 6 of us (4 american´s) sat round in a circle with buckets in front of us waiting for the liquid to take effect! The next 2 hrs consisted of people throwing up huge amounts into the buckets. Wasn´t violent sickness, a strange smoothness about it! Was hilarious and everyone was laughing apart from when being sick! Although one American did looked pretty awful! Felt really clean afterwards and then went back ... read more

Posledne tri dni sme stravili sposobom, ktory pojmu hliviet dava uplne novy rozmer. Este aj natiahnut sa za balickom M&M´s je pre nas nadstardantny vykon. Pre priblizenie situacie, skusime nacrtnut nas denny program.. Asi o desiatej (plus minus hodina) rozlepime oci a vytapame na plaz. Tam sa zvalime a opekame asi do dvanastej. To uz z nas zacina dymit, tak sa presunieme do izby a v ramci obeda sa napchame bananmi, mandarinkami, popripade spucujeme cely ananas. Tuto kaloricku bombu cca hodinu travime a nasledne sa dopotacame spat na plaz, resp. pri nedostatku sil spadneme uz na terase hotela na lehatka, alebo hamaky. Zobudime sa asi o piatej a vyrazime do mesta povymetat obchodiky s tretkami a dat si rybisku na veceru. Nevladni po veceri chytime tuk-tuk, dovezieme sa spat na hotel, rozvalime sa na balkone, chrumeme ... read more