SALAVERRY - Our last stop in Peru, sandwiched between 2 sea days. The weather word of the day was FOG. We arrived near Salaverry around 6:30 am and the ship was finally tied up and passengers started to disembark at 8:30 when the fog lifted enough to see the port. By the time we left at 5 pm the fog was back in full force.
The town of Salaverry was just outside the port gates but there was a shuttle to the city of Trujillo, about a 40 minute drive depending on traffic. It was pretty well built up all the way to Trujillo. Until we got into the city the houses were really hovels. They almost all had a substantial door but the roof was sometimes missing, sometimes a tarp, sometimes a thin tin. In the city the roof was almost always red tile. There were tall walls (between 6 and 8 feet) surrounding almost everything- the old walls were made of brick, newer ones were cinder blocks. Even the shopping centre we went by was surrounded by a tall wrought iron fence. There was litter everywhere - not necessarily garbage but litter. The cleanest places I saw were service stations - they were big and there was no litter to be seen.
The 2 days at sea were the usual mix of exercise, food and entertainment. The lectures have not been very interesting and most of the movies have been old. They did show The Shape of Water and I Tonya but both were late at night. The ocean was very calm.
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