Peruvian Beaches - 11 April 2009

Having had so many days of rain and cold it was soooo nice to pull up in Huanchaco and pitch the tent in a pretty well organised camp site / hostal, ditch the coats and boots and spend three days sitting on the beach doing pretty much nothing. What can I say, it was a great beach, the restaurant near by brought you beers and food so you never had to leave the beach and the hostal was a 100m walk away and did great food. Oh yeah, there was a nearby town (Trujillo) that had some pretty cool cultural stuff so we felt obligated to check that out for about half a day.

The only thing that happened out of the ordinary here was that it was our first experience of someone trying to steal something from us. Fortunately they were unsuccessful, but it did make me feel a bit cross. It happened as we were walking towards the bus station, in the middle of the day, to buy some tickets out. I was holding my purse (very small, with a band that wraps around my wrist) in my hand. Next thing, this guy runs by and I thought at the time, hit me on the arse. I was quite speechless but managed some sign language to indicate my displeasure but when I told Tim about it he pointed out that probably this guy was trying to steal my purse. Nonetheless, it reminded us how careful you have to be as well as how lucky we were that we had come this far without anything serious happening.

We left Huanchaco and still not having had enough of the beach we headed to Mancora (local Peruanas say this is the best beach) and spent another three days sitting on the beach, enjoying the sun, seafood and local cocktails. What can I say, we deserved a break, travelling is hard work!! (I know, I can feel your pity from here!). One day we did feel like it was important to see more than the beach in front of our hostel and so we jumped in a `tuk tuk` type taxi and headed to another local beach and walked back to the hostel at the end of the day.

And other than to say the beaches and people were truly lovely, there isn`t much more that happened in that week.

So, on a hot and sunny afternoon we boarded another bus and made our way to the border and across into Ecuadar, which requires many blogs of its own.

Hope you are all well

Take care

Tim and Tracey