Piura

Cycled for a couple more days through scrub and semidesert, camped overnight behind some bushes and made it to Piura, which is a fairly major town in the north of Peru mid afternoon on the second day.

It's a pretty depressing area to cycle through, the roadside is strewn with unbelievable quantities of rubbish, and beyond that there's nothing to look at but scraggly bushes and flat semi-desert.  Tomorrow morning am starting out on the Desierto de Sechura proper, which is about 180 km of desert with absolutely nothing in it, then I get to Chiclayo and hopefully the scenery should improve.  The worst thing is definitely the wind though.  It builds through the day til by 2ish you're looking at 20-25 kph headwind relentlessly, as there's no cover from it, hence I have been getting a few early starts in, the heat's pretty bad here too.

Not much of interest to report, hopefully there'll be more excitement further south.