ruins and crazy guides

14 Dec 2006

Our guides today are husband and wife team Clara and Mike. They are both late 50´s. She is local and he came here from England to fall in love and never leave. They are an odd couple. She is down right mad, scattering away in every direction when she talks. He just cant stop talking. Its all facts, and at super high speed. It literaly too much!

The Temple of the Moon is preety interesting. My brain struggles to keep up with Michael´s talk,even though it is im clean English. Three hours later I am knackered. We return to their hostel for luch, and I go straight to bed, not intending to move for the afew hours..

But no, the ruins of Chan Chan await, and Sara somehow motivates me to get up.

Thjis time it is Clara who guides us, mostly in Spanish. The sight is lieteraly massive and really reminds me of Egypt.

More memorable though is Claras driving. In a beat up old VW bug which feels tiny, she casualy drives over curbs, the wrong way down one way streets and causes mayhem on the roads with no real appreciation that its her whos in the wrong. The funniest moment comes when she sneaks her way thru the cars all waiting for a red light. She cuts to close to a taxi, and scrapes the bugs flared wheel trims against it. the driver yells at her to get out and see the damange. She looks completely unfruffled and casualy tells him to stop being silly.. his car is made of platic anyway! Then drives off....

Aweome..