Piura

Trajillo

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February 6th 2008
After staying in a dismal town called Alausi we pretty much stayed on a bus for the next few days. We stayed in Cuenca where the room was so horrific (the bathroom looked like something out of a horror film) that after a few beers for supper, we booked into somewhere else with only the clothes on our back. After Cuenca was another bus to Tumbes, the border town of Ecuador and Peru. In Peru we went ... read more

South America » Peru » La Libertad » Trujillo

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more