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Festival de la Virgen in Huanchaco, Peru
Blog: Lost World Expedition - 11 April 2012
One morning while on our usual walk along the malecon in Huanchaco, we passed some guys building a big tower out of bamboo on the side of the road. We stopped to take a look and realized the bamboo structure was loaded with fireworks with fuses running all along the sides. It was maybe 30 [...]
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The Best of South America Part 2: Travellers Share Their Tips
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 25 January 2012
To celebrate the launch of our free ebook South America Highlights we asked other travel bloggers to share their favourite places and experiences on the continent. In Part 1 we heard their top tips for Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Brazil and now in Part 2 we move on to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. For exhilarating [...]
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I Must Go Down to the Sea Again…
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 26 January 2011
Knowing that Trujillo wasn’t a city to hang around in, on arrival from Ica (via Lima) we picked up a taxi and headed straight to the nearby coastal town of Huanchaco. We shared the taxi cost with another couple but the total came to 15Sols (US$5.40); it should cost you no more than this for [...]
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Kuelap Ruins From Chachapoyas, Peruvian Motorcyle Insurance Shakedown, and Back on the Gringo Trail at Huanchaco on the Peruvian Coast
Blog: Trip Down - 13 April 2010
On Chessi and I’s first full day in Chachapoyas Chessi wanted to go to the Kuelap Ruins, a fortress with three keyhole-type entrances (one apparently resembling a giant vulva) situated on a ridge about 3000m high overlooking the Utcubamba valley. The drive follows the river on a decent dirt road at about 400m for 30kms [...]
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Huanchaco – Beach!
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 7 April 2010
So yeah, back to sea level. We were heading to Trujillo, a fun six hours on the bus, winding our way down from the Andes through some absolutely gorgeous scenery, and past a reservoir. If you go up to Cajamarca (and back down), sit on the left going up and the right going back down [...]
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Chan Chan
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 1 April 2010
On the road between Trujillo and Huanchaco is the huge ancient ruins of Chan Chan. A bit like the pyramids in Mexico, or the volcanoes in Central America, visiting lots of ancient ruins makes me become a little blasé and under whelmed at the thought of seeing another. In fact, I was tempted not to go to Chan Chan, but to break up our lazy beach days, we did. And I’m so glad we did. After all, it’s the largest adobe city in the world – to quote another statistic from our book – so it is bound to be good.
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Huamchaco - a surfers spot, don´t you know?
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 31 March 2010
We had a dramatic start to our time in Huanchaco. Arriving in Trujillo, seven hours after leaving Cajamarca, we decided that we would go a further twenty minutes onwards to Huanchaco, a quiet beach town. It seemed a more inviting prospect than another city stay.
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From the mountains to the sea…
Blog: One Year+ of Vagabonding through Latin America - 7 November 2009
Leaving Cajamarca, I headed back to the coast – to Trujillo, a large city of not much interest. Spent a few days wandering around the colonial centre viewing the pretty architecture and large square; but as one moves away from the center the city quickly devolves into urban blight. In an example of the law [...]
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Huanchaco, just what I needed!
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 3 October 2009
Lovin´ it! Huanchaco is just what the doctor ordered. Yesterday, I woke up, went running along the beach and leisurely drank some coffee, okay, a lot of coffee. It was great to be agenda free. We drank coffee, enjoyed some eggs, dropped off the laundry (I hadn´t done laundry since Columbia, [...]
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The Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round, and Round…
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 3 October 2009
As Todd mention, we left Ecuador after the Riobamba bust. Now, we are in Peru. To be specific, on the beach in Huanchaco. It only took 4buses and about 28hrs. We powered through and made it hear late afternoon the day before yesterday. We seemed to catch each connection [...]
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Riobamba Bust.
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 30 September 2009
Riobamba was supposed to have the coolest train ride ever. It even has a cool name, Nose of the Devil. Doesn´t that sound like something you want to do? You were even able to ride on the roof. But noooooo, some indigenous people, okay actually it was a lot of indigenous people, decided that they [...]
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