Less than 10 seconds later we were surrounded by a police special squat. But after it was clear, that nothing
serious happened, there was again the only interessting topic to discuss: soccer!
Generally speaken: All our contacts to the police in our travelled countries so far have been
very friendly! They really do a first-class-care-job on the tourists! The guys in Lima even brought
us to the bus we were searching for and reminded the driver, that we were friends and they wouldn't
like to hear any complaints!
Thanks a lot to the 'Special Suat' of the peruvian police!!
After this little accident we just wanted to leave Lima and again spent a lot of time in buses,
which, in our first days in Peru, we didn't expect to exist.
Our first ride led us to Chiclayo (12 hours in a huge double-decker)
This trip needs getting used to, because the whole coast of Peru is a gigantic desert. The environment was
very paltry and hot and even the cities and the visited ruines only showed the same dreary brown desert colors.
But if you want to see a real highlight, you have to visit the museum of The Señor of
Sipán, just near Chiclayo. We cannot really recommend visiting the ruins themselves, because
you won't see very much and going there is a bit complicating.
Afterwards we went back to Trujillo on the same way we came to Chiclayo. In Trujillo we spent Marions
birthday. Here, like everywhere on the coast you will also see the
desert brown colors all around
and after a few days you will get some kind of frustrated and you won't like nothing more but just
view a small piece of green nature.
From Trujillo we went on towards the Cordillera Blanca and the city of Huaraz, just with taking
a short overnight break in Caraz. The 8 hour bus ride to Caraz was a heavy bone-shaker, but the
incredible spectacular Cañón del Pato was really really worth every kilometer.
The mountain range of the Cordillera Blanca is about 20km wide and 180km long. Over 50 mountains
are higher than 5700m. You can expect incredible views there. Unfortunately the weather was too bad
for hiking, because we arrived here in the rainy season. But in some clear hours we were lucky to
take some nice photos.
Instead of hiking we visited the 3000 years old ruins of Chavín de Huántar, which
are located on the other side of the Cordillera Blanca. To get there we crossed the Cordillera in a
three-hour bus ride and passed the highest point of your journey so far, the Cahuish tunnel at a hight
of 4455m. On our way back from the ruins we encountered snow fall at this point for the first time
on our journey.
On our planned way to the south we wanted to skip Lima (we had our well known reasons), but to skip
Lima would have cost us 5 additional days, so we had no chance, but to visit Lima again.
We spent two days in Lima and visited the national museum of Peru. And just to relax, we went to
the cinema once again. We saw 'The pink panther (La pantera rosa)' in spanish, but even without understanding
everything, we had a lot of fun! And of course we had a giant portion of popcorn and a liter of coke -
and everything for just 4 EUR.
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