Blogs from Trujillo, Peru, South America - page 10

1st Dec 2010 We caught a late night bus to Trujillo with El Dorado, fist class tickets for the trip are 45 soles from the El Dorado office as oppose to 75 soles from some of the tour operators in town for the exact same bus. The 9 hour overnight journey was comfortable and uneventful, we grabbed a taxi in Trujillo and headed straight for Haunchaco to a pre booked hostel. We moved hostels early the next morning as we had found a lovely little place at 10 soles a night called Oceana, it is one of the better places we have stayed and at $4 us a night we can't go wrong, its clean secure and the couple that run it are good folks. One of the reasons we had come to this area was ... read more

Vetsina pamatek, ktere v Peru navstevujeme se tyka puvodnich kultur a ani dnesni den nebyl vyjimkou. Prvni stanici byla Huaca Arco Iris /duhova pyramida - chram/ ktera je jako jedna z mala zrekonstruovana temer do puvodniho stavu. Konecne vidite jak to vypadalo a nejen ruiny. Po teto kratke zastavce jsme dorazili do Chan Chanu - hlavni mesto Chimu kultury, sveho casu nejvetsi mesto jizni Am. Vetsina budov je pouze ruinami /jde opet o stavbu z blatovych cihel/, pouze mala cast je zrekostruovana, ale konce mesta nedohlednete. I ta trocha co jsme videli je impozantni a rozsah celeho komplexu musel byt omracujici. V mistnim muzeu jsme zase byli stredem zajmu a pozadani o spolecnou fotku-uz to asi nebudeme zminovat, jako rockove hvezdy...Na zaver dne jsme si nechali malou rybarskou vesnicku Huanchaco pri Tichem oceanu - pro nas ... read more

Tahlei Oh the beach, how I miss it. Not just any beach though- a beach with waves, with cool clear water and nice clean sand. It’s been a while since we’ve had one of those. We lived two years in landlocked Madrid and since our week on the Caribbean at the beginning of this trip we haven’t returned to the South American coast, until now. You might say I was excited at the prospect of a swim in the Pacific again, and maybe even having a go at surfing, but in the end I we didn’t even dip our toes. Still, we spent a good few days on the Peruvian coast. After leaving Ecuador we basically took back to back buses to get down the coast of Peru to the city of Trujillo, spending one night ... read more

When we signed up for this teaching we thought 2 months would be ages, but with only 1 week left here it seems like it's flown by. It's quite a strange way to live here - every week friends you've made leave, and new people arrive. Must be pretty tough for the people here for a year or more, but we're still having a great time. We had a long weekend last week, which was timed nicely with Sarah's birthday, so we headed up the coast a bit to find some warm weather. We chose a place called Colan to go to, and planned to get there for before the England Germany game - 9am here. The less said about that the better. It took a couple of buses, changing at Piura and Paita, the second ... read more

very nice place, very really enjoyed, just the backpack less was not so nice ;)... read more