Dr. Evil vs. the Pyramids in Trujillo

The Mancora DTs broke somewhere around 4am leaving me enough time to remove my neighbour´s elbow from my ear and enjoy the sunrise view from the bus. I stumbled
off the bus in Trujillo and found somewhere to imbibe a litre of coffee and half a meter of sandwich. I was planning on staying here for a day or two, but after half an hour walking around re-decided and bought a ticket for that night to Huaraz.

So with 14 LONG hours to kill and feeling like an extra in a Joy Division video I set about doing the tourist thing, which is quite tricky when you are into your 2nd day of hangover. Before embarking on it I went to the central market and got a pint of carrot juice. It must be bad for me to drink carrot juice. But the trip proved to be worthwhile, Chan Chan and especially the Huaca del Luna (and Sol) being very impressive. The Huacas are stuck in the suburbs of Trujillo they come at you out of nowhere. A couple of hundred meters to the left a man is watering his back garden, to the right there is a hundred meter high 1000 year old pyramid. Odd. I started enjoying the whole thing but the enjoyment was short lived as one of the people on the tour was a rather fat, loud, and obviously gay Belgian. I mean how many disadvantages can one man have? He resembled a fat Dr. Evil with hair and thought his funny comments about dusty walls were side splitting. My evil eye trick didn't work either so I just grinned pleasantly like a perfume counter girl.



That done and Belgian lost, I withdrew to an internet cafe for a couple of hours before going for a Chinese. Strange as it may seem, Chinese cuisine is big in Peru, with a large Chinese community cooking up a storm. I wasn't to be disappointed and was served up a chicken stir fry that resembled the dimensions of the Huaca del Sol. It was literally a mountain of food on a plate. I hadn't eaten all day and gave it my very best, but left defeated, with half of it still on the plate staring lewdly at me.

So, without having seen a bed since yesterday morning, I board the bus to Huaraz.