28. De camp discreetly and off in search of breakfast which we found at a store with table and chairs opposite the Chavin Temple of Kotosh which we were not going to see without breakfast wich turned out to be a delicious tripe stew with cubes of potato then coffee and tea. Cotosh distinguishes itself by being 4000 years old strangely in the valdivian era and by having no English tabulature at all so it was all a bit of a puzzle. One really nice inside space with niches and loads of really attentive and well behaved school kids. Then down into the Holy Grail of the ride. The endpoint Huanuco pronounced waa noo ko. Horrid. So many tuk tuks it is amazing. In order to find a hostel we need Wi-Fi so we see a place that has Wi-Fi and it is a ceviche restaurant and we are starving. so we order some. Actually it is blinding. I have oysters by mistake but they are delicious. The staff are friendly and related and a lovely young girl then gets out her phone and gets us a decent cheapish hotel. The hotel Imperial and then only charged us 35 soles (£4.75) for everything. Out into the town that night looking for a bar .Susie very apprehensive about bloke’s boozing places, but we actually find a rather hip place with more sophisticated young woman than sophisticated young men we ordered a large jug of Pisco sour cocktail. This gave us 6 classes each. Terrific! . 29th. Wandered about disliking the crowded manic grid system town with endless phoneshops. But did have a great lunch in the Central Market which had a lunch section. Lots of cooks with different stuff and a long tiled counter and benches to eat at . Soup with floating stuff usually. Then we bought two cheap fold up bags to put our panniers in For the coach trip. They prove a roaring success as you can shuffle through coach Q’s with two vast bags and two dismantled bikes and not have to get stuff in relays; and as you are pretending to not have much baggage because you get charged for it, this is a good thing. We get bus tickets then go back and change them for that night as Huanuco is buy no means restful and we stay in the hotel till the evening then suddenly leave before the second night and hop on the bus. However at short notice I can’t get an extended leg room seat and have to put my legs in the aisle which twists my torso and makes it so it keeps me awake for practically the whole journey. The idea in these buses is to get in ,keeps the curtains closed watch shite films which make you forget the terrifying roads and vertical drops that the huge bus is winding through .The drivers so far have been really good. We haven’t died
once.