No Fixed Plans

Our overnight bus was mainly smooth sailing due to the lack of a boarder crossing (which pleased many of us). 

We started with a 10am brunch. The portions and type of food pleased everyone as it looked more like a dinner than breakfast and everyone was starving. It was then followed by a Peruvian shot, which we were told was to ease the stomach. 8 of us didn’t want it so we peer pressured two of the guys into doing 5 shots each (they informed us later that 40% alcohol does not, in fact, sooth the stomach, but rather the opposite.)

We then headed for an orientation walk though out the town. After which, many went to a cafe followed by a sports bar to watch the FIFA World Cup game whereas a couple of us split off to rest at the hotel before heading off on our own wander. 

We quickly realised why they don’t have many tourists as there was just about no activities for us to do other than walk around and look at what everyone was selling. We ended up walking for about 3 hours with the only purchases being 2 slices of cake and a T-shirt. 

We went to dinner around 7pm and all headed back to the hotel for an early night as we were all tired from the overnight bus. 

The next morning we had a private tour planned where we got to see the Moche Countryside, Fertility Huaco, Huacas of the Sun and Moon and Chan Chan ruins. Throughout the whole tour we got a history lesson on how the cultures interacted with their land. We got back at around 6pm where half of us decided to pick up stuff from the supermarket and the other half decided to get maccas for dinner, where we all headed back to prepare for the overnight bus