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Peru turned out to be two things for me: a country full of incas and full of parties. i had a good time seeing ruins and doing some great hiking to get there and after my adventures in ecuador, i was ready to relax and have a good time.

Yo yo peru

Andy Wunder
2007-04-19 22:22:36

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Peru turned out to be two things for me: a country full of incas and full of parties. i had a good time seeing ruins and doing some great hiking to get there and after my adventures in ecuador, i was ready to relax and have a good time.

I came from ecuador traveling with this english girl. we started out together solely because we were heading in the same direction but in the end we continued to travel together not because we were great friends but because we kept heading in the same direction. it was kinda funny.
the first stop was on peru's northern coast in the small fishing/surfing town of huanchaco. ironically, the land west of the peruvian andes is complete desert. this area was completely dry. the locals survived largely off the sea and still used traditional hand-made reed boats. they would cruise the coast and then ride them in on the waves at sunset. it was really cool to be out surfing in the late afternoon and watch these guys cruise in on their reed boats. i spent a day going to these cool ruins but besides that, i didnt do much besides hang out on from there we headed to lima. as i got farther along in my trip i began to look forward to the capitals more and more. in many of the countries i went to, the capital would be the only place where you could find certain things (due to the concentration of affluence that you find in capital cities). i looked forward to the capitals for milk shakes, movies, and ethnic foods (other than pizza). so for lima, i did just that: i ate ethnic food, i went to the big screen, and i had milkshakes, lots of them. i also spent a good amount of time trying to get things sorted. i took care of getting more money for my deflated bank account so i could keep on traveling (thanks grandma betty) and some issues concerning my dental insurance claim. after 2 days, i had had enough with boring lima.

i left that morning feeling good and making fun of the english girl that i was traveling with. she was obsessed ...