Today is the big day - my search for Cuy (Guinea Pig) in the nearby city of Trujillo. I have seen Cuy a few times in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru but always very expensive atleast $25 as its considered a delicacy. No matter what the price I am trying this dish today. I took an early collectivo into the city (about 1 hour away) and started my search in the massive street markets. I started using my basic Spanish and realized my Spanish is not as good as I thought it...

Today it begins: I am not exactly back on the road but this is the point where I stop with the same monotonous routine, meals and loneliness. In just over 5 days I will make my way south to Bolivia which means I have 5 days left here in Peru. I figure I will make the most of them, sample some bizarre and unique foods and see some new places. First thing find a strange fruit by the name of Lucuma that can only be found in Peru. I headed to the market early and luc...

Day 2 of the study and to be honest I was quite excited today to learn some new words and maybe get out and put them into practice. I spent most of the day at my new place doing lessons and coming up with lists of words I could use straight away. For lunch I had brought some small fish and went about attempting to cook then; basically I coated them in seasoning and then fried them in hot oil. They didn't turn out that great but ohwell I have a while to perfect a ...

Day 1 of teaching myself Spanish: not really sure how I am going to go about teaching myself Spanish so the first few hours this morning I spent coming up with a plan to study and teach myself. Elizabeth the lady who's house I am staying in gave me a Spanish learning pack so I decided that, that would be a good place to start. Not having anything else that I really need to do means that I can also dedicate a substantial amount of time to study - I am thinking atl...

Today I needed to head to Trujillo to do some shopping so I decided to get up early and catch a collectivo over to the city. First stop was the mercado and it was absolute chaos - people, chickens, bikes and crap everywhere. I wondered around getting bumped, pushed and pointed at - I ended up buying loads of crap that I didn't really need but liked the look of (must remember I just have one small backpack). Among the treasures were some small scissors, dried figs...