For once I managed to actually get up for a sunrise. Unfortunately due to the location there wasn’t actually a sunrise to see. Huanchaco sits very near the point where the Humboldt Current rises from the Antarctic and the California current coming from the north meet. The confluence of currents causes an almost every day […]
Day 74 : Punta Sal to Huanchaco
The drive to Huanchaco took over twelve hours but we did have a stop around lunch time to visit a museum. In the town of Lambayeque we spent an hour being guided around the Museo Tumbas Reales de Sip?n (The Royal Tombs of Sip?n Museum). In 1987 a series of burial chambers where uncovered in […]
Day 71 : Cuenca to Punta Sal (Peru)
Today we left Ecuador and entered Peru. The border crossing was different to any we had done before mainly because of the distance between border posts. Normally we would find ourselves at one passport control leaving a country then walking or driving through no mans land a short way to the passport control of the […]