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South America » Peru » Trujillo October 1st 2012

Apres avoir passe du temps merveilleux en Equateur, nous voila parties pour explorer le PEROU! Notre premier contact avec le Perou est la ville de Piura. Laid, bruyant, sans aucun charme. Une ville transitoire.. Puis, on se rend vers TRUJILLO. Les paysages deviennent de plus en plus aride, ca sent le Perou mes amis. Le lendemain, on rencontre nos francais adores, qui sont la pour feter lanniversaire de la marraine de notre Florent national. Nous sommes donc cordialement invitees aux festivites organisees pour loccasion. Tout est deja organise... On va dabord visiter le Temple du Soleil et de la Lune. (Soleil, symbole masculin, Lune, symbole feminins).Deux symboles tres importants chez les civilisations anciennes, notamment chez les Mochis, civilisation ayant construit ces deux temples. Nous ne pouvons visiter que le temple du Soleil car lautre est en ... read more
Troupeau de montons
Levee du jour sur la Cordillera Huayhuash

South America » Peru » Trujillo September 27th 2012

The past days were just busrides followed by more busrides... I made about 1200km in 4 days... After Baños I decided to visit the third largest town in Ecuador, having said "third largest" -it doesn't mean a lot in Ecuador with an overall population of only about 13 million, so I ended up in a lovely city called Cuenca, which has a flair of a small town, given through the many brick-layered, small, one-way streets. I enjoyed most that in this city the people still know the meaning of a quiet Sunday -during other days of the week the city is unrecognisable. Cuenca is rather small and everything is in walking distance, especially the various markets that can be found on every corner; selling fresh vegetables, fruit, meat and fish, juices or lunches. Other markets offer ... read more
One of the markets in Cuenca
Welcome to Peru
Peruvian Motor taxis

South America » Peru » Trujillo September 2nd 2012

Hola mis amigos, ich muss mich einfach mal bei euch entschuldigen, dass ich die letzten 3 wochen keine Reiseberichte geschrieben habe. In Huanchaco war es schwer moeglich Reiseberichte zu schreiben. Denn ich hatte einfach KEINE Zeit. Zuviele tolle Menschen, ein zu toller Beach, zu tolle Fiestas (Parties) und vor allem zu viele tolle Wellen. Da bleibt eben keine Zeit mehr zum Computisieren. Kurzzusammenfassung der 2 Wochen in Huanchaco: Am 20. August, 2 Tage nach meinem 29. Geburtstag bin ich Huanchaco bei meiner Gastfamilie im Hostal INDIGAN SURF angekommen und wurde auch gut aufgenommen. Die Familie selbst ist Huanchaco sehr bekannt, und das NICHT NUR, weil der 17 Sohn Juninho bereits in seinem beachtlich jungen Alter der Surfchampion von Peru ist! John, der Freund von Miriam, war auch mal Surfpro, managt jetzt aber seinen juengeren Bruder. Also ... read more

South America » Peru » Trujillo July 11th 2012

Day 269 Friday 6th July The breakfast at the hotel is pretty good and included fresh fruit, eggs, toast and juice so it was a good start to the morning. Our first missions today are to get our laundry done and airline tickets out of here. The first thing was the laundry which was easy and will be ready today at 5.00pm the next one the tickets were also easy and we have decided to fly all the way through to Trujillo which turned out to be expensive but worth it. We then did some site seeing which involved a few steps to the Plaza de Armas (note there is a plaza by this name in every town) to see the Casa de Fierro (Iron House) which was designed by Gustave Eiffel. It was made in ... read more
Iquitos
Iquitos
Iquitos

South America » Peru » Trujillo July 5th 2012

Foggy Huanchaco and the Pacific Ocean At last...the Pacific Ocean and beautiful beaches, although for the first day, they were completely shrouded in fog. Thankfully, the sun came out on our second day; surfers, seafood, cheap beer, no noise and a decent hostel for 10 quid per night meant we were happy chappies! (Mrs P was a little too happy after watching Murray´s semi-final win and celebrating with a couple of Pisco cocktails - had to carry her home!!) (Fib mum!!!! KP) After 4 days of sun/fog, we headed off for Chiclayo, home of Juan Aurich, the footballing Champions of Peru and part 10 of the South American football tour. Juan Aurich 1 Huanchaco 0 2 x 1 on tickets which was a bonus. We got befriended by the local yoof - Kevin, Nick, Pedro and ... read more
Sunset & Beer
Pelicans

South America » Peru » Trujillo April 23rd 2012

We left Huaraz on an overnight bus to Trujillo. We left about 10:15 pm on a fairly fancy Linea bus and arrived in Trujillo 9 hours later. They served us chicken and rice and cooked veggies for dinner which was fantastic. All we had brought was bread, not as fantastic. The movie was Alive, rather appropriate as we wound our way down the Andes. Sarah had recently read Miracle in the Andes (Dad, remember giving me that book one Christmas for Elfster because you didn't know how to use the internet?). Alive is based on Miracle in the Andes, the story of a rugby teams plane crashing in the Andes and their survival, which included cannibalism. Sarah tried to stay awake and watch it despite being tired. An hour or so in, after the likely illegally ... read more

South America » Peru » Trujillo April 19th 2012

Tuesday 27th March - Chiclayo to Trujillo to Huaraz After a late start we got the 4 hour bus to Trujillo where we had intended to stay the night, before moving on but on arriving there we found there was only 1 bus a day leaving for Huaraz at 9pm. Rather than stay in yet another grotty city we decided to wait it out in the bus station for 5 hours, along with a short trip to a shopping mall we'd seen advertised before getting the night bus. We took a taxi through the city, looking at endless crap in the streets and half finished so called houses and arrived at the Plaza Aventura mall. which appears as almost an oasis out of the desert. If there weren't any people there you could easily be fooled ... read more
Olaza's Terrace Huaraz
Old Huaraz
5000 Metres

South America » Peru » Trujillo March 28th 2012

24/3- 27/3 Trujillo Bussturen fra Cajamarca tok ca. 6,5 timer og går gjennom høye fjell og dype, grønne daler. En spennende tur langs svingete veger og stupbratte fjellsider, vakkert. Vi trodde vi var lure og bestilte plass på 1. seterad slik at vi riktig skulle få panoramautsikt. Det var en gedigen tabbe, for bak sjåføren var det en heldekkende gardin. Han falt ikke for våre bønner om å trekke til side gardinen selv om vi på dårlig spansk og demonstrerende pantomime forsøkte å forklare hvor bilsyke vi kom til å bli uten vindusutsikt. Heldigvis fikk vi byttet til oss plasser til seterad nr. 2 og klarte å ikke bli for bilsyke. Men bilder ble det lite av.. I skrivende stund sitter vi på verandaen på hotellet vi bor på og skuer ... read more
Dekorasjoner i Maanetempelet
Utsikt fra Maane- mot Soltempelet
Regnbuetempelet i Chan Chan

South America » Peru » Trujillo March 12th 2012

The coastal area of Peru is extremely dry with an average of about 3 inches of rain in a year, yet in Salaverry it was the home to one of the the most spectacular cities and the largest construction of mud in the New World. Chan-Chan was once the capital of the Chimu Cilivation, predecessors of the Incas.... read more
Salaverry
Salaverry
Salaverry

South America » Peru » Trujillo November 12th 2011

Arriving in Trujillo was a very stark contrast to Huaraz....very barren and almost desert like! Situated on the coast I intended to have a few rest days following all the hiking I had just done. I had been recommended a hostel to stay in outside Trujillo in Huanchaco. Once a small fishing village, now a surfers hang out. I´d heard a rumour that the Canadian boys from Ecuador were heading this way imminently so upon their arrival we met up and checked out some of the local ruins nearby. Chan Chan dates back to about 1300AD and is a vast area of crumbling walls that use to form about 10,000 structures and was the Chimu capital. I think we would have appreciated this more by viewing it from the air...never the less it was still spectacular ... read more
The Beach at sunset
Chan Chan
Huaca La Luna




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