Jewerly for Peanuts
Laura and I arrived in Chiclayo early in the morning after one more all night bus trip. This time it really did have a bathroom! We had given up on asking and were pleasantly surprised to discover it.
We took a combi out to Piminetal where hte beach was and were disappointed to find and empty beach covered in hazy fog. It was not the beach bum time we had been expecting and after unsuccessfully trying to find a place to rent a surfboard we decided to hop onto another bus and ride 7 hours to the north, 7 hours closer to the equation and sunshine. Before leaving chiclayo we went to the amazing museum showing the real tomb of Sipan. The mummies and the beautiful gold things they were buried with made the museum one of the best I had ever been too. It helped relieve the disapointment at the grey beach.
We arrived at Mancora late at night, crawled into the first hostel we could find and fell asleep to the loud television. We decided we could pay a little more than 3 dollars a night and find a nicer hostel the next day.
The next morning after an excellent breakfast with fresh squeezed juice we found a place to rent surf boards and our next hostel. It had friendly people and some really nice guests. We got a surf lesson lined up with Manolo and made friends with a girl from Australia. We hit the beach almost immdiately and started playing in the waves. The waves here are huge, yesterday they were so big that we did not even play in them. It was quite a site to watch the surfers whip out in giant frothy white maddness taller than they were. When we do go out in the waves they catch us more than we catch them.
Today was a little better and we caught some more. Laura is doing amazingly well for her first real time surfing, body surfing and playing in large waves. She figured out how to dive under them really fast and is a really strong swimmer.
Today we bought jewerly from our surfing teacher Manolo in our Hotel. FOr 10 dollars we bought a neclace it took him 8 hours to make. It really was peanuts. Everything we need we find at the tips of our fingers. We{ve started talking about what we will miss and we know that when we return to the states we will not have everything we want when ever we want. today on the beach we were sold our lunch, great rolls with spinich and tomatoes in the middle. then a lady asked for some of our peanuts that we had been hauling around since Yurimaguas and slowly eating. We told her to take lots because we did not want to take them back to the states. She came back a little later to ask for more and we decided to give her the whole bag. She offered to trade us the jewerely she made for the bag and Laura got a braclet and Igot earrings. She told us that she loves peanuts but they do not sell them in Mancora. Laura and I were so excited that we finally got rid of the giant bag which we had bought for almost nothing and get some cool jewerely out of it. Everyone seemed pretty happy.
I am on my way home tonight, a night bus to CHiclayo, a morning flight to LIma, the next day a flight to Mexico, a day in Mexico city thanks to the airlines changing our flights, and then back to LAX then out to Vegas. Wow. I am going to be ready to sit still for ahwile!
We took a combi out to Piminetal where hte beach was and were disappointed to find and empty beach covered in hazy fog. It was not the beach bum time we had been expecting and after unsuccessfully trying to find a place to rent a surfboard we decided to hop onto another bus and ride 7 hours to the north, 7 hours closer to the equation and sunshine. Before leaving chiclayo we went to the amazing museum showing the real tomb of Sipan. The mummies and the beautiful gold things they were buried with made the museum one of the best I had ever been too. It helped relieve the disapointment at the grey beach.
We arrived at Mancora late at night, crawled into the first hostel we could find and fell asleep to the loud television. We decided we could pay a little more than 3 dollars a night and find a nicer hostel the next day.
The next morning after an excellent breakfast with fresh squeezed juice we found a place to rent surf boards and our next hostel. It had friendly people and some really nice guests. We got a surf lesson lined up with Manolo and made friends with a girl from Australia. We hit the beach almost immdiately and started playing in the waves. The waves here are huge, yesterday they were so big that we did not even play in them. It was quite a site to watch the surfers whip out in giant frothy white maddness taller than they were. When we do go out in the waves they catch us more than we catch them.
Today was a little better and we caught some more. Laura is doing amazingly well for her first real time surfing, body surfing and playing in large waves. She figured out how to dive under them really fast and is a really strong swimmer.
Today we bought jewerly from our surfing teacher Manolo in our Hotel. FOr 10 dollars we bought a neclace it took him 8 hours to make. It really was peanuts. Everything we need we find at the tips of our fingers. We{ve started talking about what we will miss and we know that when we return to the states we will not have everything we want when ever we want. today on the beach we were sold our lunch, great rolls with spinich and tomatoes in the middle. then a lady asked for some of our peanuts that we had been hauling around since Yurimaguas and slowly eating. We told her to take lots because we did not want to take them back to the states. She came back a little later to ask for more and we decided to give her the whole bag. She offered to trade us the jewerely she made for the bag and Laura got a braclet and Igot earrings. She told us that she loves peanuts but they do not sell them in Mancora. Laura and I were so excited that we finally got rid of the giant bag which we had bought for almost nothing and get some cool jewerely out of it. Everyone seemed pretty happy.
I am on my way home tonight, a night bus to CHiclayo, a morning flight to LIma, the next day a flight to Mexico, a day in Mexico city thanks to the airlines changing our flights, and then back to LAX then out to Vegas. Wow. I am going to be ready to sit still for ahwile!
posted by Cammie at 11:47 AM
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