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Here you can join us on our motorcykle tour from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (south america). We start our journey May 27, 2006 and we will be on the road for about a year! Read our complete story at our homepage: www.tobias-ingeborg.com

Again on an overnight bus (we love those overnight buses - they take you somewhere and you get to sleep in chairs that recline way back - airlines should study these overnight buses) we landed in Piura. This was just a quick stop on our way to more beaches because we heard that the beaches in Northern Peru were the best. Piura was a nice little city and very historical, older than Lima in fact. On the other hand, it was hotter than the Devil´s underpants. We got to our hostal at about 6am an...

Piura is the first town I´ve visited in Peru, having taken the easier and safer border crossing via Macara (recommended, no hassle at all getting across thank goodness, although the passport inspector was visibly sceptical that the person in the photo was actually me.  Although this concerned me at the time - I didn´t really want to be left on a bridge literally not existing in any country - I took it as a good thing given how awful the photo looks. Anyway, perhaps I´ve been har...