Salavery, Peru

Salavery is the port for Trujillo, the second largest city in Peru.  Most visitors to Peru choose to travel to Lima and Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca so the north coast of Peru is not as developed for tourism.  That being said, we headed out for an excursion to visit Trujillo and the Colonial Houses.

Before breakfast, we swam for 45 minutes.  The water and air were cool to cold when you are wet.  The pool opens at 6am and then they turn the heat on so the water was not yet warm.  But it kept us moving which is the goal of water exercises.  We cleaned up and headed up to breakfast in La Veranda.  Then we headed out for our excursion.

This is us sailing into Salavery.  Lots of small fishing boats and desert.  This area is very dry. We took a bus into Trujillo.  When we got to the city, we then did a walking tour of the Colonial Houses.  The first house as the Casa de la Emancipacion.  This home has been restored and was where Marquis Torre Tagle signed a document declaring Trjillo's independence from Spain in 1820.

Courtyard 

The traffic in Trujillo is interesting to say the least.  Lots of taxis and kind of a dog eat dog mentality.

Traffic in Trujillo

Protest walkers

In the center of the town, we came across a protest march.  Something to do with money.  Very orderly and well attended.

At the end of our tour we stopped in a home and were treated to the Pisco sour.  Kind of a strong drink.  Later we headed to the town square and then to a church and then back on the bus for the ride back to the port.

The weather was sunny and fairly hot.  We had lunch in La Veranda as the dining room was closed by the time we arrived back.

Hotel in Trujillo

Tonight was the Captain's Farewell Party.  We only could stay for 30 minutes as we had dinner reservations in Signatures.  Ray, the cruise director, did the show.  His is quite good.  A puppet master and singer.  At Signatures we sat with Joe and Alison from Texas.  They are also doing the entire cruise.  Good food and great conversation.  We returned to the cabin and bed.  Tomorrow is Callao, the stop for Lima.  Several passengers are getting off and traveling to Machu Picchu tomorrow.  They will get back on the ship on the 21st.  We elected not to go on that side trip as it is at a high altitude and not sure I would be able to handle it.  So we are visiting Lima.  More on that tomorrow.