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Published: April 23rd 2008
Ceballitos drying in the midday sun
fisherman go out on these and then actually surf them back in.Ok guys so this is the first blog since arriving back into South America. It was cool to see everybody for three weeks, just wish it could have been in different circumstances. To tell you the truth was a mixture of hideousness (if thats a word?!) and waiting, not good combinations. Just too much time thinking etc. Also arriving back into where the trip all started kind of brought some weird emotions with it. So you can imagine how pleased I was when I left Lima and travelled north to Huanchaco to meet Chris. Especially as it is a beautiful drive. Sand dunes on either side and hills rising out of the desert like giants.
I have never been so pleased to see the little guy! (Im half an inch taller people...it matters.)
Huanchaco is a small surfing and fishing village about 10kms north of Trujillo, Peru´s third largest city. On arriving there about 9 in the evening, straight away Chris introduced me to the mixture of locals and westerners that he had met in his time there. ( he´d pretty much hung there the whole time I had been back in England) Well first things first, (otherwise they´re
The Wall
part of the ancient ruins of Chan Chan. not first things!!) we headed down the beach, where there was a campfire going on with toasted marshmellows and locals playing instruments. Not a bad way to catch up. It was a good night actually, although in my tired state from a long flight etc perhaps it wasn´t wise drinking a litre and half of beer followed by 2 cartons of white wine.
So anyhoo the next morning I wake up and my right arsecheek is killing me, I literally cannot sit on it! Obviously im praying that it´s a UDI (unidentified drinking injury) and nothing more sinister, fortunately Chris confirms in my drunken stupour I took a nasty tumble! (Phew!!!)
Over the next couple of days, we check out the ruins at Chan-Chan, an old Chimu city that dates back to pre 1470, that´s before even the incas reign began! It´s quite cool although a lot of the details have been ruined over the years due to wind and sand etc.
TYWe follow this up with a visit to Huaca del Sol y Huaca del la Luna. (the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Moon) These are a little more remote and in the
Another beautiful sunset....
sorry, I know you are probably bored of these types of pictures! middle of a desert. The ruins have only really been excavated over the last 15 years, so there is still much to do. That said where the sun has´nt faded the murals, some of them are still pretty colourful so there´s a plus!
On leaving Huanchaco, we head to Tumbes, which is the most northern town in Peru and an ideal place to cross the border to Ecuador. We arrive there about 5am and its still dark with nowhere open at all. We go to the next bus station after telling a bunch of cabbies to shush, well we were trying to think and they were all screaming at us, they must think we´re a couple of gringos or something!! Of course this is pretty much confirmed an hour later, we ask a local rickshaw cabby to take us somewhere for brekky whilst we are waiting for our bus. He takes us to the other end of the town only to find the place he had in mind was shut, what happened next...you guessed it, he took us pretty much four doors down from where we picked the ride up! Normally if he´d asked us for 5 soles (under
ah what am I saying!
who cares what you think! Here´s another to raise your jealousy levels! 2 quid) we would have told him where to go, on this occasion it was so funny that it was worth paying him!!
Next stop Ecuador...do, do do do do do doo, Ecuador!!
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