After Cuenca we had planned to see Loja and Vilcambambe but unfortunately due to a problem with banks we had to cancel the trip to Vilcabamba and just waited for our bus to Huanchaco later that day.

After the 16hr bus to Huanchaco we were both in the mood for a relax on a beach. Thankfully the town obliged with a beautiful setting and a really nice beach for us to enjoy.

The following day we went for a very short ride on a Reed boat. These boats are quite strange looking and were used as fishing boats by the local people. The beach is filled with them, and you pay 5 Soles (1 pound for a five minute tour), and a guy struggles with a bamboo stick to row you out passed the waves. The boat is quite small so you get quite wet on the way out, and on the way back you get to have a go rowing and you find out how rediculously difficult it is! Quite a random experience, but good fun.

Later in the day we took a tour to the famous Chan Chan site, the largest adobe brick settlement in the world, which is a pre-Inca civilisation. We took a tour guide around the impressive site and we found out that they like fish and water a lot! It is quite a different structure to every other culture we have been to, with less focus on height and more emphasis on function. Even though the mud brick is over a thousand years old, you can still see some of the original structure around the restoration.

Later in the night we caught a bus (13hrs) down to Paracas. We do ove a good bus journey! lol