Spent day in Cajamarca. Just as well. I was offered room service for breakfast. I got the impression that it probably suited them. I went looking for it a few times before it arrived at nearly 9 o clock

Off to the centre which is a couple of miles or so. Got on a combi but not really having much clue I got off too soon so still had to walk. Riccardo the owner had given me an address for a travel agent who was very helpful in discussing the next stage of my trip. Tomorrow will tell. I discovered yesterday that my waterproof bag is not completely dry so I went to the local barrios to look for some bin bags. I imagined a roll of 10. No you by them single!

Cerro Santa Apolonia is a small church that sits over looking Cajamarca. It is reached by steps. Lots.

Once up there you have to pay 1 sole to get round the garden. Not much of a garden but the view was good

This is probably only a fifth of the city.
One thing that Cajamarca is famous for is that it was here that the last Inca warrior Atahualpa first met the Spanish conquistadors. He offered to fill the room once with gold and twice with silver.

Unfortunately it didn’t do any good and ended with the fall of the Inca empire. The Inca were a very peaceful culture and had never seen guns or men riding horses and thought they were gods.
The streets here are quite narrow but with big gutters. Rain only comes for a short few months of the year but the city is able to cope. What is not easy is watching for a space in the traffic to cross the road and then realise that gutter is 10 inches deep. What happens to the mototaxis at that time I don’t know.

They are every where. Very few people wear helmets on motorcycle or scooters. Three seems to be a good number on a scooter with anything from babies to sheets of plywood being carried. So far I haven’t been able to get a picture of this sort of thing.