Rolo on Tour

Time to discover more of the northern part of Peru: The next two stops were the cities of Chiclayo and Trujillo.

If you are looking for new glasses the first one might be worth a visit as I have seen there such a concentration of glasses shops you cannot imagine. Otherwise I would recommend skipping it as it was hard to meet people there, the reason being that there are no hostels around.

In Trujillo at least that was the case. Also there is a nice central square as almost anywhere in Latin America:

Furthermore I finally managed to get some basic salsa lesson and I fixed my bag (see last entry) for 1 Sole (0.37$). Considering I got a 10$ refund from the owner of the dog, I guess I made a pretty good deal on that :-).

In Trujillo there are also some precolombian ruins called Chan Chan. To me it was not that interesting: They were a lot like those in Egypt, just without all the cool stuff!

Time to go back to the mountains I thought, in this case the city of Huaraz. Huaraz is located near a mountain range of the Andes called the Cordillera Blanca. There I took part in a 4-day-trek called Santa Cruz Trek. The trek was pretty nicely organized by some agency and so we only had to do the hiking, as everything else (cooking, carrying and setting up the tents and so on) was carried out by the guides and their donkeys.

The first night I suffered again (like when doing the Quilotoa loop) of altitude sickness and crossing 4750 metres (the highest I have been in my life) the next day was not really helpful to that. Having passed that obstacle although all symptoms disappeared.

Some pictures of these days:

Start of the hike on Day 1

Reminds me of the Matterhorn

A nice place to spend the night

We crossed only the parts without snow and ice 🙁

How will these mountains look in 5 (10,20,50..) years?

——————————————————————————————————————————-