Reisverslag Perú - Travelreport Perú
Outings North Peru and Ecuador
Here you find the pictures and stories of my visits to some areas near Piura, with friends and collegues. Also my 2 days stay in Ecuador is reported. Again, click on thumbnail picture to enlarge and go back to this screen with the upper left backward key Ü
Yacila - Playa de
Gaviotes
16th March 2003
First time on the beach, near Paita about
50 km west of Piura, with Gustavo. Beautiful, crab, fish etc.
lonely beach, rough and rocky.
And sunny of course.
. 
And lizards Near Yacila, coastline
About 100 km north of Yasila is located Talara.
Talara, 130 km northwest Talara. Punto de Balcones Punto de
of Piura known for its the most western point in a view to the
oil and natural gas South America. View to southern coastline
industry. Also there are the north
some fine beaches
Vista from Punto de Not only in Holland we have windmills. Near
Balcones. Actionally this Talara, in Miramar you see these typical
rock is the most western devices
extreme, but a little hard and to irrigate the land
to get to.
Sullana
30th March 2003
With a group of collegues we went a saturday afternoon to Sullana, the 150,000 city about 50 km north of Piura. It is a even more tropical atmosphere especially when you cross the river: abundant palm trees, coconuts, bananas & bamboo. Special fruits that are grown are guabas (a kind of giant bean with a sweet white substance in it) and mamé. The green salted banana used for the ´chifles´ (banana chips) is also often noted.
Claudia,
Fernando, me, Rafo
and Rafo, Martha, me, Fernando
Martha (from left to right) at
lunch taking a refreshing ´coco de pipa´,
an opened coconut full of coco milk
(about one litre each)
Us at the rivershore, before Main square Sullana, mirador
crossing
the bridge to
Sullana with a nice view on the irrigated
tropical forest and the
mountains
in the north
Rio Chira in Sullana and its
green shores with banana crops, cotton. corn
and plants like Guayaquil, a kind of bamboo.
Sechura desert and town
The local church in Sechura at Local fishermen at the
the plaza de armas. port of Sechura, collecting
and selling the characteristic
´concha abanico´, the shell that
shows the typical form of the well
The ruthless and vast Sechura desert. Only about 10 mm rain a year
(except for the Year when el niño is battering these lands, like in 1998...)
This El Niño phenomenon created
a big lake in the middle of the desert,
halfway Piura and Sechura, called La Niña...
Chiclayo,
Lambayeque and Túcume
31st March 2003
With a group of Piuran people i went on a Sunday to Lambayeque (200 km south of Piúra) to see the brand new museum of the Señor of Sipan, the Pyramids of Túcume and the Chiclayo coast. It was a packed program but it had a lot to offer, mainly that it permitted me to discover the richness in cultural heritage in this area of Perú. Again it showed me that there is more than Inca culture and the Macchu Picchu...
Opened
only four months
ago
Ronnie Llontop, one of the group who organized
this splendid museum houses the incredibly
rich this and me, in front
of the holy mountain of the
remains of the tomb of El Señor de
Sipan
Lambayeque tribe in Túcume
and the 12 other tombs of priests, chiefs,
and other officials dating from the 1st till 3rd century
A.C. The only in 1987 in Sipan (30 km east of Chiclayo)
discovered remains of this tribe of the Moche culture include
golden masks, bracelets, rings, copper shields, chains,
skeletons etc etc.
The outstanding presentation makes this museum one of the
best
of all Peru, as far as I can see.
All
pictures of some of the leftover of Túcume pyramids. This place was a political
and religious centre during
the 8th till 14th century A.C. It was used as such by Lambayeque tribe, the
Chimu in the 11-13th and the Incas in the 14-15th century, until the Spaniards
came. The pyramids were used as houses of the tribe leaders, one for each of the
leaders. There are 26 discovered, only 5 have been researched. The late Thor
Heyerdahl has been the driving force after the excavation and research of the
pyramids. The material is called ´adobe´what explains the collapse of parts,
due to erosion and El Niño rainfall over many centuries.
After
the archelogical tour, we saw the beaches of Pimentel and Santa Rosa, near
Chiclayo. And finally Chiclayo itself, La capital de Amistad, the Friendship
Capital it calls itself, for its open and friendly people.
It is a very lively city with nothing much of historical buildings or museums
but a very pleasant and attractive atmosphere. At least that is my first
impression.
Loja
- Ecuador
1st -2nd April
To arrange my work permit, Julio, my friend and collegue and I had to go to the Peruvian Consulate in Loja, South Ecuador. We arranged the formalities which was the boring thing off course, but also we had a day to enjoy this attractive city and especially its lovely surroundings. Loja is quite big, about 450,000 inhabitants, and has a lot of shops, markets and stores. It lies about 2500 m above sea level so the temperatures can get quite low, with regular rainfall. After the Piura heat, this ´dutch´ climate was fantastic. It also gives a green view of the whole area.
12
o´clock,
midnight.
Loja: Very nice
Julio in the main
Border formalities in La
Tina
(sort of potato like vegetable) and baking
bananas
Main
square of Loja
with statue of Bolivar
(where
Peru has in every town its
plazas de armas, in Ecuador
it is mostly called ´Plaza Bolivar´)
Ecuador - Vilcabamba
Pictures
of Vilcabamba, a small town 50 km south of Loja, near the beautiful Parque
Natural Podocarpus.
Vilcabamba has a reputation for its fine stable microclimate, its fresh air, and
healthy food. People tend to age over 100 here. Therefore also a lot of
foreigners are attracted to this nice village. It also is popular for hippie
like types and alternative bio reform food loving crowds
And
its surroundings are full with
sugarcane grows, bananas, corn and
flowers
And back to Piura...
Underway in Ecuador between Loja and Macará (the border town) you see a fantastic sierra landscape of endless 2000m mountains covered with vegetation, valleys and small villages. The road is quite good, but off course there are lots of curves and steep roads.
And just before leaving Ecuador, we see this
notable message on a building. Aqui comienza
la
patria... Here begins our country.
The military past of Ecuador is still visible at times...