Today I´m supposed to catch a bus up to Chachapoyas at 4pm but I´m not sure I´ll be able for it. I had a rough enough night with the stomach bug which has lingered into this morning. Thankfully I don´t have to check out until 1pm so I have a few hours yet to see if the stomach settles down.
I do checkout, just before 1pm. I reckon if I encounter difficulties over the next couple of hours I can check back in. I leave the rucksack at reception while I´m out. The stomach holds up but by now its completely empty anyway. I must be dehydrated as well. I find a pharmacy and explain to the assistant my problem. We have a little difficulty with language but he understands and gives me two courses of tablets and a litre of electrolytes. I reckon I´m sorted now.
I take a taxi to the bus station with an hour to spare and sit in the waiting room until the departure is called. We leave at 4pm. I´m up in the front row for a change so I have a grandstand view of the road ahead. Out of Trujillo the landscape is mostly desert though we do pass through a few colourful fertile areas. Its pretty featureless, enlivened by the odd small mountain or the few small towns we pass through. 3hrs later we arrive at Chiclayo one of Peru´s major noerthern cities. We stop here briefly to pick up passengers. I´m joined in the front row by a Canadian lad who´s come down through Colombia and Ecuador from Panama. My stomach is holding up but I´ve eaten nothing all day bar a few crackers and a small bread roll. I´m just supping on water and electrolytes. A film comes on the tv, "The Scorpion King". I half watch it before drifting off to sleep.
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