Lost in Lobitos, Peru

Since the 14th of June this year I've been in Peru. After a brief few weeks in Panama and Colombia, I legged it straight to where i was going to set up base for quite some time. A little town in the North of Peru called Lobitos, born to the petroleum industry in 1903.

Lobitos was built house the English workers of the oil fields, it had such importance that people say the the prince of wales and prince George stopped here, it was also the birthplace of cinema in the South American Continent.

The military coup in Peru in 1968 brought it all to an end, and now it is a dusty lil town full of surfers and English buildings made of timber that doesn't even grow on this continent. A real shame really, the military have used the timber as firewood and sold the tin from the roofs for next to nothing.