Santa cruz trek

So here we are in Huaraz, Peru and we arrived at 700am on a bus from Trujillo. Our last days in Trujillo were great we had fun hanging out with friends and family. On Sunday Dennis had lots of people to see even though for just a short time. Dennis had the oppritunity to say a few words in church on Sunday. It is great to see how the church has grown from a thatch roof to a beautiful 3 storey building. And although I didn´t know the songs or what the sermon was about, it was neat to be with other people worshiping God here in Peru. The young people that Dennis know when he was there came over to Liana Penners to play a few rounds of Dutch Blitz that the Trek group had introduced. It was cool as there were a few people that hadn´t been going to church for awhile and with Dennis here they came together to hang out. Monday we headed out with our wonderful host (Maribel) and daughter Gianella to Huaca la Luna y sol. These are old ruins from about 400 to 800 ad from the Moche people. It was neat to see how they built the structure over the generations and they covered the old building to build on top (Like an inverted triangle) and they are still working at uncovering more of the ruins under the sand. Around Trujillo it is very dessert like with lots of barren mountains and sand. It is very unique and beautiful (although I am not sure when it is really hot out). Then our time came to an end very quickly and we had to say goodbye. We had a send off at the bus station and off we went on our night bus to Huaraz.

We started out looking for a tour group and signed up for a 4 day trek (Santa Cruz) which we were hoping to get to do. We are off tomorrow morning at 600am and looking forward to it and hope we are in good enough shape! We spent today walking lots with a short hike up a "hill" to help get acclimatized to the altitude. We also visited some ruins from the wari people. It was interesting with all the very small stone rooms, and very short doors (we had to basically crawl through). We also managed to find a couple of markets and did some souviner shopping (now hopefully it will fit into our packs).