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So this should be a short post, with not much at all to report from the last week. We've definitely had a more relaxed time though!
We spent both Saturday and Sunday in our hostel in Cusco, racking up 17 or so games of pool in mine and Joel's head-to-head, and doing not much else, other than going to a market on Saturday where there wasn't much to see, then a club on Saturday night, and cooking a sausage stew the evening after. We also sorted out our bus at 5pm on the Monday, overnight to Lima. I went out solo on Sunday night, but not for long, as I missed Joel so much, so I headed to bed. On Monday, again we did not much at all, but then a stomach bug hit me, quite bad just after lunch time, which I hoped would go away after a lie down, especially seeing as we had a 20-odd hour bus journey coming up. I had a little sleep but didn't feel better, then managed what turned out to be a 22 hour bus journey to Lima, which arrived Tuesday afternoon. Lima was the most westernised place I've been on this trip, very very American looking, on the coast, and with lots of McDonalds/KFC's etc. We had a brief look round but decided to leave the next day. We met up with Gussy, who was also in Lima with some friends she'd made on the trip, and I had a really early night, hoping to wake up feeling better.
The next day we got up, (me not feeling better) and headed to the bottom of the straight road - Panamericana Norte - which heads directly north along the coast up into that part of Peru. We were hoping that hitching might be easy enough on this simple road, but didn't manage it any further than hailing a bus to take us 3 hours north. We did this and then did the same from Barranca on another bus, on which we sat next to the driver, for a ridiculously long time compared to the time we were told it would take, to Trujillo. We found a hostal and settled down for the night, it now being past 2am. We wondered round Trujillo the next morning, having been woken up by a cockeral (in the middle of a quite big city) and got a taxi to nearby Huanchaco, a surf/beach town on the Pacific coast. We have been there since yesterday, waiting and hoping that my stomach bug, which is still there, will disappear, before we take some surfing lessons and carry on heading north. Next stop hopefully is Mancora. And that is EVERYTHING from the last week!
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