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Published: September 13th 2006
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Evil Dog
Just look at it, pure evil!! Hello everyone!!
This time it's Dani writing. Sorry for the eternity it took Matt and me to send another blog. Here's the explanation for everything. This is kind of an eight months update just in case you were wondering what ever happened to the end of the story…
You'll have to forgive a few mistakes I might make on this blog, as you all know, my writing skills are not even half as good as Matt's.
We promised Sun, Sea and Sand....Supposedly. Instead, I give you a little of that and much more :-)
Chan Chan is 'the world’s largest mud brick city' (it means 'Sun-Sun).
Near the valley of Trujillo, covering a large area of 7.7 sq miles we found this amazing city of mud quite impressive. Thick walls decorated with animals and other figures, long streets and even a lake! mud everywhere, blah blah blah, muy bonito. But what REALLY called our attention was the Chan Chan dog... an evil looking hairless black creature which could easily scare anyone with just a look. They turned to be quite a popular dog, some kind of the Peruvian national dog or something. Pictures are worth a thousand words
Chan Chan
a big pile of mud anyway.
We didn’t stay in Trujillo, but went to the little beach town about 12Km away in Huanchaco, finally enjoying sea sights and sand, great sunsets, nice weather and beach, but specially, the greatest Lasagna restaurant in the world! Found by accident, this little place impressed us immediately and we became regular costumers within a day. Can you imagine 850g of pure delicious Lasagna... each?! well yes, instead of the typical sea food we should have had, we decided this meal was the best part of our day and doing nothing in the morning was just part of waiting until 6pm to go eat. The nice owner Fernando already knew our order and we could even go for a walk in the beach before dinner. Now, that’s a holiday!
It was time we moved on and bought out tickets to Cajamarca to visit Matt’s friend, Dave. His Bock buddy. Anyone that knows Matt and Dave knows Bock beer from Bolivia. Anyway, minutes after we got the tickets for the next day, I called my dad and he told me he’d been mugged and hurt pretty bad the day before. We didn’t know what to do as we were
Dave and Matt
they can't possibly look more gringos! a zillion miles away from him and I was extremely worried. We decided it was best to go back to La Paz and got tickets the day after but our flight was in a week so we still had time to see Dave.
Cajamarca is a lovely little town, historically important for South American as it was here where the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was kidnapped by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1532 and offered to fill the room where he was kept prisoner with gold and the two following rooms with silver up to the level of the reach of his arm in exchange for his release. Having done this, he was killed. We visited this room as it is one of the most important touristic attractions in the area, for those who wonder what’s it like, well… it’s just a room, hard to imagine it full of treasures but I was all excited about it anyway. We also went to some farms around Cajamarca and saw many animals and fed them with crackers and things like that. It's funny how they love it! and how to forget the Bear family, standing on two feet to get chocolate, fantastic.
They must really love tourists, life is better with a chocolate cookie rather than grass or whatever it is they're fed with.
We tried to spend as much time as possible with Dave, his wife Yovi and their recently born daughter. We had a good time, ate lots of pizza and the lads had their Bocks I had brought all the way from La Paz. Yovi's family was very happy to see Matt and gave us a warm welcome in their house, very nice of them. Sadly, we got the camera stolen in the bus before arriving to Cajamarca, so we don’t have any pictures of the places before and just a few from there thanks to Dave. Here I put some of the best we have. Our holiday was almost over and it was time to go back to my dad. A day of doing nothing in Lima and an endless night in the airport was about it, our trip had come to and end but we didn't feel that bad. I was happy to be back in my country, believe it or not, I missed it. Matt just laughed when I saw cows from the plane and shouted
vizcacha likes cookie
one of the many animals we saw at the farm 'see?! see?! Bolivian cows!!!!!' So it wasn’t a sad end at all :-)
My dad was very happy to be with us, and I was happy to take care and spoil him at last. Don’t worry though, he’s fine now. And so are we, ‘Back to real life’ as some would say. Matt started working in an English Pub so at least he can’t say he misses tea or Fish and Chips, hehehe. I’m back to Uni. Dad and Matt get along very well and we try to be together as much time as we can.
We did make some small trips after that. For Easter, we went to visit my family in Sucre, making the most of the four days off we both had. All my family loved to see us and finally meet Matt: aunties, cousins, niece and dog, they all adored him. Too bad we had so little time but it was nice to have my family spoil us a little. I add some pics of this. Later we went to the popular Hot Springs of Urmiri here in La Paz with my dad for two days. Relax, relax, very nice, no pics here, sorry. And
finally, to Coroico, which I think most of you must have heard about. A nice place to hang around for a while and shoo a few mosquitoes away.
Now we’re planning our trip to England but who knows if we go somewhere interesting worthy of a blog before that eh?!
Thank you all for your patience all this time from when we started the trip until now.
Greetings.
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Sian
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Wow!!!
Wow your trip looks amazing!!!! If you come back to England I hope that we will be able to meet up :-) Nice to see you're both having a great time. Take care and safe travelling. Sian x