18/11/2009 14:10A lot has happened since I last wrote. I have been trekking in the mountains before going back down to Lima and continuing to the south of Peru. Here I first went down the coast to see the Barrista islands and the Paracas peninsula before going inland to the desert oasis of Huancacina on the outskirts of ICA, where I am now.The trek in the mountains was beautiful. We started out with taking a bus over the mountains up through a beautiful valley an...

7/11/2009 17:30 Here is a short message from Huaraz where I am now. Since my last message from Huanchaco I spent thursday sight-seeing in the Chiclao area 3 hours drive north of Trujill.There I went on a tour to see some ancient burial temples from the Sipan culture and to a museum which displayed the biggest burial treasure found in South America. It was quite impressive but it was a long day because I had to get up at 5 to catch the bus there and I did not ge...

4/11/2009 21:00Today I was sightseeing in Trujillo. First I want and saw the main palace and the dragon temple in the ruins of the city of Chan Chan which was a culture which was the last major culture before the Incas in the north of Peru. The city of Chan Chan was built from the 11th to the 15th century AC before it was conquered by the Incas and lost importance. However it was still a major city when the Spanish conquistadores arrived about a century later and...

3/11/2009 11:00I made it to Trujillo in one piece and I am now relaxing in my hostel room waiting for the sun to come out before I cross the road and go down on the huge deserted beach. The bus trip here went fine and I did get some sleep in the bus, even though I was a bit restless. We arrived in Trujillo at 7:30 in the morning and I looked a bit around the old centre before having breakfast and getting a taxi out to the Naylamp Hostel in the beach suburb of Hua...

2/11/2009 22:30Now my last week of Spanish has finished and I am on my way on my travels out to see Peru. I'm writing this post from the bus to Trujillo Up the coast of Peru I'm just starting on a 9½ hour bus ride to the North along the Pan-American Highway, which runs all the way along the coast of the Pacific. It's a night bus ride but I still hope to get a reasonable sleep since I have booked a 1st class seat on Peru's top quality (and safest) bus company and...