Saturday 12 May 2012

Day 52 - Huanchaco, Peru (9 May 2012)

Day 52 – Huanchaco, Peru (9 May 2012)

We wake up and head to the bakery to pick up a bit of breakfast.  I find some fantastic muffins and get two of them.  I end up going back later in the day and buying another couple of muffins.  Chocolate chip with peach in the middle, yum.  After breakfast we catch the bus and head into Trujillo, this takes us about half an hour.  Here we have a look around the city.  It is just another city really.  We head into the Plaza (yes you guessed it) de Armes, which is the centre of the city.  After a wee bit of exploring we walk towards the Cruz Del Sur bus station to book some bus tickets for the overnight service to Mancora.  When we arrive at the terminal we find out that the Cama seats (seats that recline to 160 degrees) had been sold out.  I was gutted with this as I need the longer seat to stretch out.  Oh well, we had to buy the semi cama seats.  We then jumped onto a local bus towards Chan Chan.  The ticket we bought yesterday was valid for another 3 different sites, so since we had a bit of time during the afternoon, we decided to go to the museum here.  After this we got on another local bus and headed back to Huanchaco.  It was quite good to travel like the Peruvians for a wee bit, just like it was in the collectivo’s in Paracas, just to experience their way of living.
When we got back to Huanchaco we went for a walk around town and a walk along the beach.  Whilst at the beach we watched a few surfers doing their thing out on the water.  It was nice just lying on the beach relaxing.  We then went back to the hostel and played some cards again on the roof, once again nice to sit in the sun in beautiful weather playing a bit of cards.  We went out for dinner and then it was time to head into Trujillo for our overnight bus to Mancora.

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