Over the last few days, I have been traveling pretty fast up from Lima, Trujillo, Mancora and then Puerto Lopez in Ecuador. Whenever I can, I travel long distances at night by bus. Luckily for me, the bed buses, whose beds lie ALL THE WAY back, have been pretty luxuious. After watching a Jackie Chen and Jet Li flick in Spanish, I slept like a baby.
In just about every city in Peru where I visited, there were protests of some sort in the street.  But according to one of the locals I talked to, the protests never really get them anything. Â
When I got to Trujillio, I found the public bus transport was not only on strike, they have blocked off the road to the Chimu ruins to all other public transport such as taxis.Â
The blockade was pretty primitive as far as blockades go, but get this, the bus drivers with bricks in hand demand money from any car that tries to pass. Of course, the police stood by the side of the road; they didn´t want to deal with the bus drivers either.
Our taxis dropped us right before the blockade and we walked the last few km to the ruins. The Chimu ruins seem pale compared to Mayan temples or Machu Pichü
The only public transport available to was out of the city. So after finding my last Peruvian culinary experience Cuy, guinea pig, I headed up to Puerto Lopez to try to find some whales. Cuy, by the way, is fatty and tasty – imagine a mix of chicken and fatty pork round.
Our boat went out in calm waters, but for the longest time all we saw was this.
Occassionally, we caught little something in the distance but by the time the boat moved there, the whales were gone. We were just about to head back when we saw another two boats gathered around what looked like a dead whale upside down in the ocean. When we got closer, we saw this!
The whale was alive! Actually, by the size, the capitan said a baby whale has just been born probably only a few hours before. The mother whale was upside down to breast feed the baby whale. How cool! You can see the two whales in this picture.
I was in awe looking at them. The mother whale stayed very still in one place in the water unlike other fish. Occassionally, it blew mists of water into the air.
And then just like that, they were gone.
Leaving a trail like this on the surface…
