Chan Chan After finally falling asleep somewhere around 2.30am we were awakened at 8 by the bus hostess saying we would be arriving at Trujillo shortly. Rubbing the sleep out of our eyes we looked out of the window to see a desert landscape and a rather ramshackle looking town around us in the morning sunshine. Once we got off the bus and sorted our bags out we quickly ascertained that we couldn't travel on to Guayaquil that night with Cruz Del Sur as they onl...

Off to Trujillo We got up for breakfast again and then we were hoping to find some Rueda which supposedly takes place in Miraflores park every sunday. Annoyingly by the time we had managed to book our bus ticket to Trujillo that evening I guess that we were too late because when we arrived there was no Rueda to be found anywhere. We did find that on sundays the roads around the park are all closed off to traffic which gives the locals an opportunity to do some...

Back to Barranco Bar. Again a fairly uneventful day. We managed to almost miss breakfast only getting up at 11. We then chilled for most of the day trying to work out what we wanted to do in Equador and Columbia. Andy and Tamara had told us about a salsa congress near Buenos Aires so we felt we should look to see if it would be possible for us to attend. We eventually worked out an itinery and tried to contact the various agencies involved, of course none of t...

Pub Cubano We got up and had breakfast and then really didnt do very much at all for most of the day! Pestered Matt on facebook about whether or not he is coming to Europe with us, checked a few bits on the internet and then decided we should really so something and so started practising salsa in the kind of common area in the hostel. It has a nice flat tiled floor and everyone was out so we were able to dance without disturbing people with our music or be in ...

Beach Day We were up at 9 today as we had agreed to meet a man who sells dance shoes at the congress fo a beach day. After finally getting breakfast, the lady clearly assumed we didn't want any and Mae eventually had to go and ask her, we walked to the metro-bus and took a short ride before walking the extra km or so to Jose's house. We managed to almost be on time and took only one wrong turn on the way. When we arrived Jose introduced us to his niece who he ...