Trips into the city

Laura and I decided to go check out Trujillo, since she hasn't been over there yet and we didn't really have anything else to do. Catching the bus is rather amusing here because there are no stops and the buses are actually vans where a guy hang out the door/window yelling the stops at people. They really rush you on and off the bus, they have no time to waste! The guy says about 3 words constantly, basically just get off an go (baja! baja! baja! vale! vale! vale!). It's about 20 minutes into the city. We didn't really know where to get off, so Laura made an educated guess. It worked out well since we got of about 2 blocks from where we generally wanted to go. We found a few pedestrian streets that we nice. 

We got into the city around 1 and found a great little cafe to get a late lunch in. When we were walking around there was tons of great pastries and other goodies to try. I wanted to try the ice cream here, which was served in a neon yellow cone, but it's not so great here. Laura got a giant blob of meringue, which she tried to wear as a hat... 

Around 3pm everything seemed to be closed for some reason. We found the market and wandered around a bit, but really didn't do much there. 

Today I biked with Luis to Trujillo. He needed to get a new blanket for the volunteer coming tonight. It was quite the adventure on the way there. The bike I took needed air in the back tire, so we stopped a a gas station about 10 minutes down the road and I filled it. Of course, there's no gauge and the air came out really fast and I thought I had a good amount in it... But I had over filed it and it popped. We had to take a rickshaw to the repair shop. When we were waiting for the tire to get patched, these 2 Americans came by, to take a picture of Luis' bike, and they started their journey in Paraguay and are biking home to Chicago, hoping to arrive in April 2014. 

Once we made it all the way to Trujillo we stopped to get some shambar, a soup here that you can only get on Mondays for some reason. It was delicious. Biking aroun Trujillo was interesting and I got to see more of it with Luis as a guide. When we got back I went and got some more shambar for dinner.