Friday, January 25, 2008

Our trip to Chiclayo

We left the house to the airport in Lima around 6:00 p.m. only to find out our 9:00 flight to Chiclayo had been delayed for two hours. The people on LAN Peru were nice and accommodated us with free dinner for all 18 of us to eat and relax while we waited for the plane to arrive. There were 5 restaurants to chose from and Johnny chose McDs and got his french fries.
We arrived in Chiclayo at midnight. It took 55 minutes to get to Chiclayo and 5 minutes to get to our hotel. John and Johnny were so tired they just collapsed on the bed. We stayed at the Santa Victoria Hotel and out of all the hotels we stayed in Peru this was the only hotel that had CNBC. John's favorite channel.

The next day we went sight seeing and the first stop was to Lambayeque which is about 15 minutes from Chiclayo to the "Museo Nacional Tumbes Reales De Sipan". This museum is the most impressive museum that we visited in Peru. The artifacts inside are just amazing and you can do a tour or go at it alone. Either way you will learn a lot about the Indian tribe and its leader "El Senor de Sipan" who ruled over his people around the 1600.
Here is a picture of all of us in front of the museum.
We weren't allowed to take pictures in the museum to show you the beautiful artifacts. So we decided to go to the actual ruin site and see the village site. That story is for tomorrow.



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Loved it in person! I miss you Johnny Bo Banny
Aunt Weezy

Anonymous said...

Hey guys, that was so much fun!! The time went by flying, wooh! Are those my bee movie glasses...I am missing a pair.
Karen

Anonymous said...

Loved the blog! Looking forward to seeing if Johnny makes it to the West Coast.The Stoberleins'

Stella Barrutia said...

I saw that picture and said, "Why is Chechi in the stroller?" And then I realized that it was PRESTON....he looks a lot like Kristian (about 10 years ago) in that picture!