The Trip: the road to Huanchaco [Gaganymede]

The Trip: the road to Huanchaco

08 January 2010 at 20:49
Traveling

After a week in the jungle, we had to get out of it.

We left in a pekepeke, at night, for Nauta where we took a cargo for Yurimaguas. We stayed two days on that boat crowded with people and hammocks, where the food is prepared in the brownish river water of the Marañón river. There were also animals that people were buying on the way, even though we think they come from illegal hunting. We met very nice people though, such as a teacher, a girl from Trujillo, a brasilian lady aware of illegal hunting but who preferred buying a baby monkey as it was in such a bad state...

Once in Yurimaguas, we took a crazy camioneta to Tarapoto. Sitting down on the edge of the vehicule, I had a pretty bad buttache.

And once in Tarapoto, we decided to go to Trujillo, in order to see the sea again, see the precolumbian ruins, and so on. The bus ride lasted 22 hours but it's more comfortable than european buses and then, we could enjoy a lot of the peruvian landscape.

Finally, once in Trujillo, we thought it'd be better to be right on the beach, so we took a super cheap taxi to Huanchaco, the day before New Year's Eve, ready to party!