http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Peru , Lambayeque en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:34:17 +0000 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:34:17 +0000 Chiclayo.... What can we say You aren't very lovely but you have cable tv. And really bad food. We are happy to leave you in a few days http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-456569.html 'Couldn't find a room in a hostel so I've checked into the Radisson....' OK so perhaps not the exact words of the text Shirley sent me but they're pretty close At the time I was sat at a truck stop halfway through a 24 hour bus journey from Cusco to Lima and facing the usual dilemma of biscuits vs. crisps for breakfast everything else on offer being well meat meat meat or.... i.e. not very v http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-441751.html The Museo Tumbas Reales De Sipan is great fantastic exhibits well laid out and lit no guide forced on us and only 10 soles US3 to get in. After the disappointments of the museums in Lima we had a fantastic day. The only downside is no cameras are allowed so we don't have any pics. The museum is actually in Lambayeque about 12km from Chiclayo to get there we took a local micro which is a To http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-423977.html Una notte in Piura e poi Chiclayo.Le citt peruviane sono piuttosto congestionate e confuse ma questa una delle cose che le rende interessanti...Nella zona di Chiclayo si trovano alcune delle pi interessanti testimonianze preincaiche.Ho visitato il museo delle tombe reali di Sipn e il rispettivo sito archeologico splendidoAnche Tcume con le sue 26 piramidi in adobe e la huaca larga un http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-418299.html Dames y Caballeros Que estan haciendo Aren't you people bored yet by our funny reports and pictures Of course not you wouldn't have tuned in if you were de acuerdo How is homeworkfamily life doing no struggle or strife at the frontline Good to know ... as you know we're always concerned about you. Ok let's get ready for a new episode of the trip around the small small world. El http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-375390.html Hello AgainIt seems that I am about a month late on all of these entries. Between work and travel I haven't had time to get this post up. I was in Peru again in October and had the chance to get up to the North for the first time. I went to Chiclayo Trujillo and then I dd the standard Cuzco and Machu Picchu visit. Chiclayo felt like it was about 5years behind in regards to general touristi http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-348820.html Ok so since the purchase of my Enrique concert ticket has completely changed my plans I had a few days to kill so I thought I would head north to Chiclayo. Well after a 13 hour overnight bus ride which was redirected due to road blocks so it took an extra 2 hours on bumpy unsealed road I arrived a little worse for wear. I travelled through some amazing desert country and some of the villages o http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-346738.html Hes a man. Hes just a man Jesus Christ Superstar.Not so for the people of Sipan around 1500 years ago.The recently named Seor de Sipnwas the lord found intact in the base layer of a massive mud brick adobe pyramid deep enough to evade the amateur grave robbers. Perhaps it was the massive pyramid on top of him that gives his status away. Or maybe his retinue of 5 women military chief http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-340087.html 10 hours bus journey to Piura in coastal Northern Peru via MacaraLa Tina border crossing. Eventful so not too painful. We met 2 Irish guys probably about 50 clearly a couple but had cooked up some story about how they were going to meet their wives in Buenos Aires odd They provided us with beer and biscuits after the bus broke down loud bang puncture resulting chaos for a couple of hou http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-329914.html Day 54 Friday 22 August Over the border into Northern PeruMy 11pm bus from Loja reaches the border with Peru at around 3.15am. Everyone gets off the bus and waits patiently at the Ecuadorian side waiting for the border post to open. Word filters down the line that its not going to open until 4am.......great just what I need when I'm half asleep Luckily we don't have to wait that long and afte http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-315434.html Did you know that Peruvians have large families I found that out the hard way. Rose told me that a couple of uncles she had never met wanted to meet her. We should invite them for lunch. A day or so earlier we had found the absolute best food in the town of Pimentel. If you are ever here you have to go to a place called La Tiendita del Pato. Pato is a pretty hefty guy. All right he is b http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-312614.html Rose and Ray on RR in PeruAugust 2 6 2008Rosersquos sister Valeria owns a fishing boat here in Peru. They fish for anchovies so the next time you get one of those stinky little dudes on your pizza I can tell you where it came from. The boat Alaska 1 was docked in Chimbote and the captain told us that it was somewhat of a minor miracle that they were just arriving and offloading the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Motupe/blog-309624.html Yesterday July 28 was Peruvian Indendence Day. Flags were raised parades were marched salutes were saluted. It was a huge party for everyone. We traveled to a small town nearby called Monsefu'. Mohn seh FOO. We went with our new friends Tom and Maribel. He is a transplant from the States and Maribel is his lovely wife. He is a fairly brave individual. He has left his former home in t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-306148.html Today was a donothing day. Well not exactly. We walked and walked and walked some more. We heard an independence day parade going by so we stopped a little while for that. Peruvian Independence day is July 28.We took a LOT of pictures today and I will post as many as I can. We walked all over Pimentel looking for a decent place to eat that was not on the beach. We finally abandoned that http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-304913.html Thursday July 24 2008. Rosersquos sister Valeria arrived the night before and stayed at our apartment. She and Rose had a great time unpacking the tons of stuff she brought with her and deciding what went where. We had already decided that our luggage was overweight so we packed as much stuff as we could live without and sent it from Lima to Chiclayo by bus. Valerie did the same only t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-304553.html Het allereerste nieuwtje vanuit Lollig Lamaland dat ik jullie voorschotel is meteen een beetje luguber ren tijdig naar de hygienische voorzieningen in de buurt als het wat te veel wordt gnagna Zondagavond ben ik in het gezelschap van de halve schoonfamilie met de bus van 7.30u vertrokken van Lima naar Chiclayo. Bolleke en ik hadden later gererveerd want we waren pas om elf uur vanuit Cuzco kome http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-303749.html We felt Chiclayo had somewhat of a European feel to it apart from the fact that people were really staring at us wherever we went. The main thing we did here was to visit the famous market Mercado Modelo and its Witch Market section. The market itself was pretty noisy lots of things happening all over the place. It took us a while to find the Witch section but we managed to get there in the end http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-296175.html Chicos y chicasIm in Peru woohoo During the travel with the nightbus from Loja to Piura I had to walk over the border getting stamps in both Ecuador for leaving and Peru for entering. After hearing and reading a lot of times that the border crossing of peru and ecuador is the worst in southamerica I can say that there wasnt anything to it.. No problems at all besides the not sleeping part http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-272895.html I spent all weekend uploading all of our pctures and Im excited to share them with youFirst though heres where we are with work Were still waiting fo them to hammer out our contract everyday Carlos tells us that they are working on it with the conslate so hopefully by the end of the month Nathan has started a new large and very exciting project He is writing and designing a larges http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/blog-247713.html Ive been thinking a lot lately of the infamous Denise Brown and my travels with her. For those of you who didnt know me through university Denise Brown was my Latin American Studies director during my degree and for my 2 field schools to Mexico and Peru. Ive had the chance to think a lot about the direction she gave me over the years and how much shes shaped the way I look at the world. 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