We Need a Vacation

The last day of our trip, and our last 4:30am wake-up.  Bleary eyed, we start the morning with a bumpy three-hour car ride - dozing most of the time, waking up intermittently to see crazy fog, our driver playing chicky with fuel trucks, and barren end-of-the-world looking landscapes.

Spend about an hour and a half at our first stop, the archeological site of El Brujo, which rose out of the desolate horizon shrouded in mist, a forbidding-looking concrete structure at its base.  This site is located in the Chicama Valley and consists of three pyramids wedged between vast sugar cane fields, the ocean, and the dusty "wasteland".

Next, a one-and-a-half hour drive to Huacas del Sol y de la Luna (two more pyramids).  At this point we realize that our day is running short on time - it is now about noon and we have three more stops and lunch before we have to be at the airport at 4:20pm!  Let the marathon pyramid-exploring continue...

Lunch is at a restaurant on Huanchaco Beach, a location we would have liked to spend some relaxing time at, but this was not in the itinerary ;)

A super quick stop after eating for a photo with the fishing boats, known locally as "seahorses"

Shuffled back into the van and off to Chan Chan - a site composed of nine pyramids, but we only have time to visit one.  (No great loss, at this point Mom and I are getting pyramided out haha)

Glazed look on my face = pyramid overload

With constant watch-checking we zip over to our last stop - the Golden/Rainbow/Dragon Temple (it seems they could not decide on a name, so picked them all)  I think that is the fastest our tour guide has ever shown any site in her entire life... clocking in at fifteen minutes.

With one flight already under our belts, we are currently sitting in the VIP Lounge at the Lima airport for our five hour layover before heading to Miami.  There I will sadly depart with Mom and continue on to San Francisco.

We hope that you have enjoyed our blog, and if there is no Friday post (which I can fairly confidently say there will not be) let me just be the first to give Nish a shout-out - Happy Birthday!!!

woot woot,
The End

p.s.  we need a vacation ;)