MUNGO EATS Latin America

Our first full day in Peru, and it was not at all what I expected.  We started the day off pretty high, about 1300m.  For the first time since we started the drive, we saw rice fields.  Every Latin American  country eats rice, but this is the first place we have seen it growing.  There are huge fields of emerald green along the sides of the rivers and in the valleys.  It is really quite pretty. 

But not long into the drive and the scenery started to change, dramatically!  You would still see the odd rice field, but more and more, we started to see this.

We then went up and over a mountain pass, which peaked at almost 2200m, then down, down, down again.  I think tonight, we are at just around 100m.  This is what the scenery looks like now!

Gone are the curvy mountain roads, we drive miles and miles on straight, smoothly paved roads.  Quite a difference from yesterdays roads, which mostly looked like this.

We experienced our first Peruvian police stop today.  We were asked where we were driving from, where we were going to, our nationality and then asked if our trip had gone well today, and told to have a nice day.  No papers were checked or anything.  Hope all the stops are that easy. 

Tonight we are in a town called Chepen.  We actually intended to stop in the city of Chiclayo, but we couldn’t seem to spot any hotels, so we just kept driving.  It’s okay though, I think Chiclayo was a bit too hectic for me.  Tomorrow, ,we will hopefully only drive for a short time, destination…Trujillo.