Peru Surfing Adventure.

Ready for the waves.

 The day dawned early on the day of our peruvian ruins and surf adventure.  Our guide Jorge with Eco-Innovations tours picked us up at our hotel in the "surf adventure" van and drove us south.  After about an hour, we turned off at Pachacamac to visit the ruins there.   We toured the ruins with a guide for about 2 hours and learned all about the religious center that was located there hundreds of years ago.

Madeline Surfs!

Go Katherine!

The Incan people would send the most beautiful and brightest daughters to live there where they were guarded by eunuchs and taught to embroider and make the special ceremonial drink.  When they turned 16, one or two were chosen to sacrifice to the God of the Sun - and the others were married off to the Incan governors and priests as concubines.  The temple was very high and painted bright red and overlooked the sea.  The indigenous people would make pilgrimages there — often at the end of their lives and usually died there so they could be buried close to the temples.  They approximate that there are tens of thousands of mummies buried on the property.

After touring the ruins, we headed out to a small town south of Lima.  Our guide took us to a small public beach for surfing.  The water was very busy with sunbathers, swimmers and surfers.  And to us Galvestonians - the water was COLD.  Even in a wetsuit, Madeline came out with her lips blue and her teeth chattering.  It was nice to get out of Lima and see some more of the country and get to a place surrounded by locals.  Ladies walked around the beaches selling chips, sodas and beer (no glass of course) and we ate sandwiches packed by the tour.  Chris and the girls had a ball surfing and we loved our guide.  We went home, happy and exhausted and ready for another day!