Feeling motivated in this new year to do more weekend traveling Emily, Ty and I took the opportunity this weekend of my SB friend Teresa visiting to head to Peru along with her as far as Mancora. Heading out on an overnight bus from Guayaqui, we arrived into the small fishing village of Zorritos where, after breakfasting on fried egg and boiled cassava with sweetended black coffee drank from Christmas mugs (like this snowman one) against a backdrop of sun and sand, spent the rest of the morning sun-burning and bathing in the sea. With some unexpected changes in our plan along the way, we arrived back into Guayaquil on Sunday evening after having swam and slept at Zorritos beach, drank cocktails on the beach at Mancora, crossed the Peruvian-Ecuadorian border there and back, slept two nights on buses, none in a bed and no showers….plus sketched from Ecuadorian artefacts, photographed murals and seen a procession of tiny tots on horses and dancers in traditional costume in a Catholica procession in Cuenca.
How we looked on the bus from Zorritos to Mancora
after just one night and morning of sleeping on buses and not washing
…imagine what we were like by Sunday evening!
Getting inspired by textures and colour palettes in doors and murals throughout Cuenca.
The colonial architecture that Cuenca is known for… and (far right) a poster with a photo of a pair of youngsters from the waist down sat on a town bench with a half drunk bottle of spirits at their feet with the caption: "If this seems normal to you… something is wrong! Report it!" Imagine these posters in London?!
So, yep, you can travel pretty far in one weekend,
if you put your mind to it (and tolerate the non-showering part!)
…you'll even end up with a big smile on your face for it!
;-)
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