PERU - Bandits, Inca ruins, longest lefts in the world. By Mal Robertson and Steve Bainbridge Imagine Lennox Point, 6ft - 8ft, 2 people in the water, breaking 2 or 3 times longer. Make it a left, with 16deg water, hot desert air blowing offshore all day. Then you have the pointbreaks of Central and Northern Peru. Steve Bainbridge, me, and our Peruvian friend Luis Vasquez, travelled 2500km in an old rusty Toyota station wagon, surfing on our own, or with no more than 3 or 4 other blokes, for 2 weeks in June, through Central and Northern Peru. Being robbed at knife point in Lima, after 19 hours flying to Argentina and 6 hours flying across the Andes to Peru, is not the best way to start a road trip. The worst thing about being jumped by 5 desperados (after I realised my wife Di was safe), was that they stole our top of the line digital camera, through which I was going to record Steve's and my, epic surf trip. Luckily I had an old SLR, but unluckily it took shit photos. So don't look at the terrible photo quality, but look at how good Peru is for a surf trip. All was forgiven when we started our road trip north, into the desert land of perfect, uncrowded, long lefts. A new swell had hit Lima when we arrived back from the Amazon, and we knew we had to go north straight away. We'd really researched Peru well, and with the local knowledge of our Peruvian friend Luis, we got empty point, after empty point, for 2 weeks.Highway 1 through western Peru, is a good road, following close to the coast, but you need local knowledge to find some of the spots. Our first stop was Centinela about 300km north of Lima, but our first good surf was Bermejo, a fun, head high, 200metre point break, we surfed on our own. waxheads.com