Rests of Cajamarca
On Thursday last week we've been to Granja Porcon near Cajamarca. It is a large area occupied by protestant (not catholic) people who reforest this region, do bio-farming and have some kind of mini-zoo of Peruvian animals.


On Friday Meike had her last appointment at the dentist. He asked when we will be back in Germany and our reply was ...next year in May. So he said or at least we understood: Go to Lima immediately and see a dentist there on Monday. So we rushed the same day to the bus station and grabbed the last morning bus to Trujillo.
Next Stop Trujillo and the con man
Our guidebook on Trujillo has been really bad. We had to search for a cheap enough hostel for quite some time, but finally a friendly concierge of an expensive hotel send us to a cheap one. During our search we had an encounter with a Peruvian man who actually spoke some German and said he'd like to practice his German a little and if we would like to meet this evening to chat and drink a little. He seemed nice enough, so we agreed. We met at night and he brought us to a mediocre chifa restaurant nearby and somehow we talked about what can be seen on the Peruvian Nuevo Soles banknotes. So he asked if we have a 100 Soles note and after we couldn't produce one he asked if we had a 50s one. He showed us the picture on the back and suddenly the banknote was in his pocket. "That is for me, hahaha!" Great Joke! Seconds later he pulled it out again and gave it back. Suddenly his phone rang, off he went and we were left with the ... false one of course ... banknote. Afterwards everything seemed so obvious. At least he left a DVD (Shrek 4) as some kind of compensation or apology for being such an arse! But we have to admit the false banknotes here in Peru are of really, really good quality: watermarks, silver stripes, shiny parts ...all there.
Trujillo: some better experiences
The ruins of Chan Chan and the Esmeralda pyramid where quite interesting, including an encounter of the naked kind:




Meike said: "Does not feel like expected". The same she said once about snakes...
Small horses in Huanchaco
Just a few kilometers north of Trujillo is the beach village Huanchaco where we strolled a little and had coffee. Notably are the traditional fisherboats made of reed. We had the luck to see them taking off. The boats are called "small horses" because of the jumping movement when they get over a wave and because of the fisherman sitting on it like a jockey:
Bye!