Last days in paradise

We extended our beach stay with three days, and went on a one day trip to a beach with one of the longest surfing waves in the world. The surfing school promised food, lovely sandy beach (in contrast to the sharp stones at Huanchaco). We were in heaven, crashing into the sea with the greatest delight, and walking on the silky beach until David (a fellow surfer in the picture below) told us that there were stingrays (the fish that killed Steve Irwin, the famous crocodile hunter) around and that we should shuffle our feet instead of walking. Suddenly, we had a snake in our paradise. But hey, come on: We had the greatest kick on a beautiful beach, surfing from early morning and into the sunset at the tail end of the day. Lets face it: Surfing is hard, but we are both capable of catching a wave and ride it (until our arms feels like cabbage at least).

Peter, Sabrina, David, Eirik, Anita, Sabrina and Adrian

Eirik caught in one of the good moments

Surfers pose (we actually do not prented to be pro's, because we are all quite crap)

We have moved from spanish animal names, numbers and colours to more advanced consepts like verbs and stuff. The progress we have done in one weeks is quite remarkable, and it would have been a good idea to have done this at the very beginning istead. Though: Better late then never, and much more fun with friend in our own living room (with loads of candy and coffee)

Peter at the white board in our spanish lesson (Manuel, our tacher in the background)

We finally managed to visit chan-chan today, the largest Pre-Columbian city in South America, covering an area of approximately 20 km². The massive size of us was impressive, but how well a mud wall can stay intact for over 900 years. But then, it almost does not rain here at all.

Anita, Sabrina, Birgit and Eirik at chan chan

We will stay in a hostel in Huanchaco tomorrow night, and continue in on bike in the morning. It will be interesting to see how the coast differs from the Andes. Our feeling is probably that people are more friendly in the mountain villages, but let them prove us otherwise.

Thanks for all the comments, we love you all! And Lydia: We are really bad at doing nothing....

PS: More pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/eirik.sunde/HuanchacoNovember2008#