GregandJoan We are a married couple in our fifties who are in the process of adapting to the nomadic

Piura Peru 019 15 February 2014 Saturday Piura to Trujillo, Peru We had a slow morning at the hotel as our bus to Trujillo is not scheduled to depart until 3 pm and hotel checkout was 12 noon. We packed, did some internet research and blog writing and had a late breakfast at the shopping centre (chicken empanadas and coffee) and stocked up on munchies for the seven hour bus ride, another 400+ miles of the Pan-American Highway. The first 200 hundred kilometres is straight and flat through the northern deserts of Peru. We weren t expecting to see or travel through a vast desert of wind-shifted sands and sand dunes. This desert is known as the Sechura Desert and extends from the Pacific coast inland to the edge of the Andes. rajakamar It was an amazing vista to travel through rajakamar as the sun set in a brilliant but deep red in the dusty western rajakamar haze. We were seated in the front upstairs of the two-decker coach and had a panoramic view of the roadway ahead during the trip. One of the other things it was hard not to notice and be a little disturbed by was the hand-built memorials to accident
Piura Peru 007 victims that occur almost as regularly as the kilometre markers. They stand starkly in the sand bearing the names and dates of death of accident victims. The crosses and small concrete structures about the size of a doghouse are too numerous to count but there are thousands of them and unfortunately this does not surprise us all that much. The road is heavy with traffic: heavy goods vehicles and articulated lorries, long distant coaches and local buses, private cars and yellow taxis, three wheeled moto-taxis, rajakamar donkey-drawn goods carts, motorcycles, rajakamar pedestrians and school children, all recklessly use the road, honking continually and weaving in and out of slower traffic ahead, passing on curves and up inclines without hesitation or due consideration rajakamar of oncoming traffic. We saw all this from our perch at the front of the bus and were very happy to arrive at Trujillo only one hour behind schedule. We shared a taxi to our brand new ultra modern boutique hotel, called Hotel Due, with a lovely young Canadian couple who were on a one-month vacation in Peru that was full of travel and adventure and hiking and blessed with the exuberance and enthusiasm of youth unleashed!
GregandJoan We are a married couple in our fifties who are in the process of adapting to the nomadic lifestyle. We are currently travelling east across the USA from Los Angeles heading toward Miami.... full info Joined October 24th 2013 Trips 0 Last Login March 6th 2014 Followers 0 Status BLOGGER Follows 0 Blogs 48 Guestbook 13 Photos 289 Forum Posts 0
Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... more info
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