Day 28 Monday, April 1st Huanchaca, Peru

We arrive in Trujillo from the overnight bus from Huarez. A misguided stewardess has passed out cherry cordials in small plastic cups with loose lids. She puts them into the rear seat pockets in front of us while we are asleep and we both manage to get the tops off as we wriggle around in our sleep during the eight hour journey and waken to find blood stains all over our pants. We catch a taxi to Huanchaca and then look for a place to stay and decide on Naylamp, which is quite good at $28/night. We get immediate access to our room at 8.00am or so and get a shower and a breakfast with eggs.

Huanchaca is a small surf town and, off-season, is disappointing and scruffy. We are tired and grumpy after sleeping on the bus and so decide to move on to the next town that same evening. We have to take a local bus into Trujillo (tres soles for two = $1) and ride with the locals for an hour and then wander around dusty and noisy streets looking for a bus company that will take us further north.

We book another overnight bus journey ($28/person) to Mancora-further up the Peruvian coast.

After catching a bus back to Huanchaca, to use the Naylamp room that we will never actually sleep in, we mooch around and then taxi it back to the Trujillo bus-station for our 10 hours onward journey to Mancora.