A big day. Drove to the Pan American. A big round-about so we dutifully went around to the right, while others behind us just turn left! We then discovered that the dual lanes were blocked. For the next
100km’s we travel on dual divided highway all on one side or the
other. For the initial part we drove in fog at some times it was very
thick and I kept the truck in fronts tail lights in sight as I wanted
to know where he was. We started to think that we would not make our
400km’s. More rubbish more small towns more speed humps.There is no by-pass around Lima. All roads lead to Lima. So we suffered the two hours driving through Lima's suburbs. First half was very slow speed humps, traffic. The second half ran much faster and we were through in 2 hours. Anything goes on the high-way.
Drove till close on
6 as we wanted to get some miles done in this not so exciting part of Peru.
Lots of squatters on the outskirts
Some of the main
roads were not on our map…. Filled with fuel and water at villa Tuapc Amaru then headed to Pisco,
a peninsula just past Paracas. When we got to the turn off
discovered it to be a national park.
There were many of these big sheds along the high way. They are chook-sheds not sure whether for eggs or meat.
Parked by the ocean (after dusk) only to be moved into a camping area by the ranger.
Parked right next to
ocean cliff for the night in the dark. Had poached eggs for dinner
and crashed…..
We managed 450k’s
our biggest day.