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Juicy Shoot Around the World
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We arrived in Trujillo at night, after a
full day on a bus. The views during this
journey were amazing, with landscapes changing
from beach-sides to deserts! We found a nice
hotel in the historic center of the city
and rushed to a jugeria (juice place) where
we bought a liter of cold fresh pineapple
juice!
We spent the following morning doing a bit
of shopping in town as Quentin desperately
needed some new walking shoes!
In the afternoon we explored 2 archeological
sites: Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna
which were built by the Moche civilization.
The following morning, we explored one of
the most famous sites in Peru: Chan Chan:
a huge pyramidal complex with layers of temples
built on top of each other by successive
Chimu generations. We also spent a lot of
time in the Chan Chan museum where we learnt
a lot of information about these civilizations,
the way they lived, ate, hunted et...
Things were definitely getting better as
what we could admire was much more than mud
hills! Perfectly preserved walls, corridors
and paintings were visible and we took a
real pleasure in getting lost amidst them...
          
On our way back to Trujillo, we stopped in
Huanchaco for a bit to sit on the beach and
relax from our busy and cultural day. And
this is where we discovered these chicken
legs being grilled on a street stall and
appearing to very popular with the locals...
We did not dare trying it though and opted
for a less scary option: empanadas...
We arrived back in Trujillo in the evening,
had the best chicken sandwich in the world
with another liter of fresh pineapple juice
and waited on the Plaza de Armas, watching
the night fall on the city and the world
go by for a while...
Our bus to our next destination was not due
until several hours so we had a lot of time
to kill. While waiting on the Plaza, we met
a guy called Jose, supposedly an English
teacher (with quite a bad English for a teacher)
and we talked with him for a few hours...
about Europe, about Peru, about our different
cultures... It really helped us kill time
and as we were talking more and more a small
comity started to create around us with curious
locals just standing there and willing to
hear our conversation. This was one of our
REAL moment... chatting with locals about
everything, learning to know them, simply...
Before we knew it we were on a bus to Lima,
our next stop.
18/02/2009
   
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