Day i : Arrival and a First Look at Trujillo.

So I arrived at about 9am after a very comfortable night bus from Lima, coutesy of Cruz del Sur. Micheal met me at the bus terminal and took me back to the house, giving me a very quick run down of how he ended up in Trujillo and a little bit of a primer on the city and the volunteer program ahead. After dumping my bag, a quick tour of the house, and some introductions, I headed out to explore Trujillo.


From the house it is roughly a 20min walk down the main road to the Plaza de Armas, where, I got a map and some information on the city's main sights from the very helpful staff at iPeru. After admiring some of the many colonial buildings around the centre of town I stopped off at the Archeology museum, which houses a number of different artifacts from the various cultures that have inhabited the region over the past 12,000 years. It was a very interesting museum although, as my Spanish still isn´t great I didn´t glean as much as perhaps I should, maybe it will be worth another visit towards the end when (hopefully) my Spanish will have improved.

Following my stomach I went down to the local supermarket "Wong" and stocked up on food and then headed back to the house to cook dinner, still enjoying the novelty of having a clean kitchen with a working oven. Then, tired from the excitement that follows a new day in a new city, I headed to bed early for some much needed rest.