From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Walled City

2010.Jan.17 Sunday

Our last day in Chachapoyas and time to visit what’s billed as the Kuelap Fortress, high atop a mountain a couple of hours from town. As it turns out, it’s not so much a fort as a fortified town, estimated to have been built in the 6th century AD, and continually occupied right on through [...]

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Guardians of the Dead

2010.Jan.16 Saturday

I can’t say that we were now sated after the excuse for a lunch we’d had in the plaza at Lamud, in fact, it was a bit of a relief to be told we were running a trifle late and we should hurry up and get into the van for our next jaunt. Like with [...]

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Hole in the Ground

2010.Jan.15 Friday

This little trio of days involves a lot of bouncing about on back roads and then mucking about, often literally, on dirt trails off into the middle of what seems to be nowhere. Having returned from our waterfall march, we grab a little rest, then have a bite to eat at a spot on the [...]

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Curse of the Mermaid

2010.Jan.14 Thursday

The journey started out simply enough. We were picked up at our hotel by an agent from the tour agency and delivered to their bus terminal. 7:30 p.m., the light starting to fade, and we pull out onto the highway, saying goodbye to Chiclayo (with regret, we really enjoyed ourselves there and so much more [...]

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Lord of Sipán

2010.Jan.09 Saturday

Our main reason for heading to Chiclayo had nothing to do with the beaches, nice as they were. We wanted to visit the archaeological sites for the Lord of Sipán, who was the ruler of the Moche culture in this area a whole lot o’ time ago – somewhere between 100-700AD. The site of his [...]

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Beached in Chiclaya

2010.Jan.07 Thursday

Continuing our little tour on our first day in Chiclaya, our taxista insisted we had to see the two main beaches, for which, though we didn’t know it, apparently the city is quite well known. First up, Playa Santa Rosa, which is known as the fishermen’s beach. And, it really is pretty dedicated to them [...]

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On the Road Again

2010.Jan.06 Wednesday

Henry and I have very different modes of travel. At first glance, given our personalities, you’d think he’d be sort of the free spirit wanderer and I’d be the one who wants all the details nailed down. But vacations, perhaps, are the place where people want to be a bit different from their day to [...]

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A Bite of the City of Eternal Spring

2010.Jan.05 Tuesday

Things I’ve been informed of or witness to this week living with Henry’s family…. Water may be the foundation of life, but who would want to drink it? Maybe if you flavor it with some burnt barley, or weeds from the roadside, or something you found in the market that you’re quite sure is a [...]

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Trujillo Marketing

2010.Jan.04 Monday

On our last visit to Trujillo we spent time at the Mercado Central and the Mercado Mayorista. We did make it to the wholesale market again, to buy a turkey for New Year’s Eve – more in the next post – but the big market day was spent yesterday, Sunday, at the Santo Domingo, which [...]

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