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The most amazing bus journey of the trip took us to Huanchaco, a small fishing village near to Trujillo. Unfotrunately the accomodation that we picked due it having a restaurant specialising in Indian curries (not very Peruvian but wanting something thats not a chickens foot or a guinea pig!) was closed for a month for refurbishments, the lovely lady took us to their `temporary` hostel.....we lasted 1 night. We moved into another just down the road, this time it was 2 nights, after Hannah flushed 2 cockroaches down the toilet. Then just around the corner for our last night, and a lovely old lady, partly deaf as she just shouted, but in a nice way, not realising we didnt understand a word she was saying lol.
Bar the accomodation Huanchaco was an amzing place to stay, very chilled out and relaxed, amazing ruins/museums near by, and amazing surfing!
We visited Chan Chan, which is a pre-Inca settlement, it stretches so far, and a lot of the ruins are still standing, although the tourist part has been re-built but it gives you the understanding of how large the settlement was.
We met a lovely man, Carlos, that helped us out when we first arrived, he then told us he ran a surf school and could give us all a lesson for a couple of hours, and for a good price (8 GBP). It didnt take us long to decide to give it a go....Amazing! We never thought we would be able to stand up on your first lesson, especially with a hangover from the night before! We watched Peru v Paraguay with the locals in a bar thankfully Peru won 2-0 sending the locals crazy, then went to a party across the road, and eventually to a club, where everybody danced the Salsa....good job ive got 2 left feet! We also met the ´Last Incá`!
On our last day we visited the Sun and the Moon temples, again pre-Inca. Shown around by our crazy guide, who loved ruins sooooooo much! You have to go with a guide, and Peruvian time took over again, a 20min wait ended up being 50mins, such fun. The ruins are excavations, not reconstructions, amazed that the colours have lasted. Theyve only been excavating for 20years so in the future it will be unbelievable!
First McDonalds of the trip at Trujillo Mall, definitely all my doing lol, i spotted the sign on the way in! Yum yum x
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