Peruvian Protestations

Dan “Don’t you know it is rude to stare?” I want to yell at the Peruvians, only I know it […]

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Lazy Days in Huanchaco

Chan Chan–the largest adobe complex in the world.  Yet another superlative belonging to Peru.  We give so much credit and respect to the Incan society–they’re world famous for reaching and maintaining a complex level of society and government, and for shaping trapezoidal stones for their structures.  This morning we heard that the Chimú also used […]

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Huanchaco, Peru and Chan Chan

We run into Sam and Erica who are overlanding in a great truck and XP camper at a campground in Huanchaco. I have to say some days it looks like a palace compared to bike travel. I’ve forgotten the luxury… Read More ›

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From Cajamarca to Huanchaco

Time to keep moving…so we pack up and head west toward the coast and some ruins and cities we want to visit. We leave Cajamarca fairly early one morning and plan to turn south at a small town called Chilete…. Read More ›

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Life’s a beach

Huanchaco, Peru [by Paula] I’d like to say that the month we’ve just spent at the beach in northern Peru was a necessary pit-stop, a chance to get fit by jogging daily, perhaps, or the perfect opportunity to brush up on some Spanish verbs. But really we were just plumbing previously unchartered depths of laziness. […]

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