Peru Fall 2013 Day 15

We woke up maybe a little bit late and then had a breakfast of basically what we had left in the bungalow. I made eggs for Daniela and ate the leftover pasta basically. We finished off the coffee and that was pretty much that.

Daniela spent some time sunning herself while I organized my pictures a bit and did a little bit of work on the computer then packed up my stuff. We took our showers and Daniela packed and then we called for the moto-taxi to bring us to the shop where our combi would pick us up. The moto-taxi took a longer time than usual and we arrived really only a couple minutes before the combi did.

The combi ride was again 3 hours to Piura. This time I slept a lot less during it as it was daytime. November 1 was a holiday (basically All Saints Day) and the police were out watching the cars and due to that we had 2 less people in the combi than there would have been on another weekend which meant we had a bit more room. The landscape really could be out of American westerns being all desert style with low bushes and a lot of brown sand.  We passed some oil derricks on the way. Some were actually drilling. Daniela wasn’t sure how much oil they have. We also passed an area where they were starting to build very large wind turbines which is neat. There unfortunately was a lot of trash along the way and there were a few points up and down hills with switchbacks that I was wondering if I was going to be sick. All in all the ride was almost exactly 3 hours to the bus station.

We took a few minutes to get a moto-taxi which took us to a seafood restaurant to have lunch. I had a fried filet of fish and Daniela had ceviche. It was a nice restaurant that was very busy when we arrived. We then took a taxi to the Plaza de Armas of Piura as we had several hours still before the flight which was at 8pm and our combi arrived at 12:30.  At the plaza we took some pictures and had coffee and dessert at a place called El Chalan. Daniela had lemon pie and I had coffee ice cream in a cone which I was able to get them to put some chocolate sauce on. The type of chocolate that hardens up.   We took a couple more pictures then picked up another taxi to the airport.

We checked in a couple hours before the flight was to start and also found out it was going to be a half an hour late. The Piura airport is tiny so we entered the gate area and just found seats and waited. There really isn’t even anywhere to shop there. The flight boarded half an hour late and was basically a little bit bumpy but uneventful overall.  We landed, disembarked, got a taxi to Daniela’s house and picked up some things, took the taxi to Miraflores and got the keys to an apartment we had for the night and then settled in.  It was a three bedroom apartment but the room we wanted wasn’t free that night.  So they gave us the big one for the same rate for the one night. It was on the 18^th floor and had a really nice view.

We ordered a pizza as I was still hungry and I am pretty much the only one who ate any then we went to bed for the evening.

The pictures from today can be found here.