Chan Chan Trujillo

During my Travels I am always interested to not only learn about cultures and traditions of countries that I visit but also get a good idea about it's history, past civilizations and their archeological sites. Needless to say Peru has a lot to offer in this respect.

Most visitors focus mostly on the Inca culture as part of their visit to …

Mancora, I have to go, I am going south to make my flight from Lima, thanks for a great time...

MY OVERSIZE BACKPACK and I get to the agent where I bought my bus ticket. "come here at 10:30pm" they say, so that's what I do.

10:30 pm
ME: "hola, voy a el bus a Trujillo" (I'm going on bus to Trujillo)
AGENT: "you have to …

Chan Chan ruins were built by the Chimu civilization (pre-dating the Incas). At least, some of them. Although the site is very impressive and interesting, the big challenge is that it is a mixture of 'real' ruins and 'rebuilt' ones that look similar but are very recent and made with different materials. This all stems from the material used by the …

Huanchaco beach near Trujillo was a great place to catch up on sleep, get thoroughly lost, and wait for the long bus journey up the coast.

Over the three days I tried the local specialties, cerviche - raw fished cooked in the acid of lemon juice, and chimota (not sure this is the right spelling)- goat. Cerviche gets the thumbs up out of …

Vilcabamba was roughly a 10 hour bus journey to our first destination in Peru: Huanchaco. We decided to cut the trip in half and overnight in Piura. We crossed the border without a problem and arrived in Piura around 8pm.

We told the taxi driver that we needed to stop at an ATM before going to the hotel. We pulled up at the ATM and the …

At the risk of sounding like a terrible bus bore, I start this once again with a description of how I travelled the 8 hours south from Máncora to Trujillo on yet another overnight bus. But this was no ordinary bus service of the same ilk as National Express or Mega Bus...!! In fact, I'd go as far as to say that Oltursa (the company) would put …

In the morning the seaside town of Huanchaco looked a little more like the quaint little fishing village described in the Lonely Planet. We walked around the small village and the pier side watching the local fishermen fishing on the cigar shaped reed boats. We had breakfast at a beachside hut and made plans to go see the Chan Chan ruins. There …

Huanchaco has given us our first glimpse of summer weather since Brazil, happy days :D We were staying in the La Casa Suiza which is about 2 minutes walk from the beach. Again, another nice wee hostel, which also did good pizzas in their restaurant.

On our first day the sun was shining, so we went down to the beach-front and got some …

For our first day in Trujillo we booked a full day sight seeing excursion to temples and museums in the vicinity of this northerly city.

First stop in the morning was to La Huaca del Sol and La Huaca de la Luna. Translated these are the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Moon. These were built by the Moche civilization and are 1500 …

We had read about archaeological sites near Trujillo, which were built by tribes in pre-Incan times and which were meant to be well worth the visit. So, we arranged a tour with the hostal, to take us to the highlights, which provided us with transport and an English-speaking guide for the day. First of all we were taken 10km south of the city, to …

... the following day, an 8 hour overnight bus, and thanks to the Lonely Planet, I pick out a reasonably priced tour of Chan Chan for the following day. A greasy pollo and cheese sandwich later, I potter around the outerlying streets before settling ...

... stop since that's where the bus went. Anyway, Trujillo is nice enough for a day or two. It's a decent sized city, and Chan Chan (the Chimu Kingdom), a UNESCO World Heritage site is just outside the city center. So I stay long enough to visit the vast ...

... capital of the Chimu civilisation, which was at its height from the 9th to the 15th centuries, when it was conquered by the Inca. Chan Chan is the largest adobe (mud-brick) city in the world, covering nine square miles. It was also the largest city in ...

... , a colourful past of tribes, civilisations and rulers. Went to the Museo tumbas reales de Sipan   and to Chan Chan     and along the way we sneezed, coughed and snotted   our mark on all these ...

... another Moche site - a recently excavated pyramid used for human sacrifices. We also went to the ruins of a huge adobe city called Chan Chan (whole thing is over 20 square kilometers), used by the Chimu people (post-Moche, pre-Inca). As you drive along ...

... , hardly anyone speaks English here and you have no choice but to use Spanish to get what you want. We are going to the Chan Chan ruins tomorrow... a lot of history and culture to learn here in Peru. I head to Lima on Wednesday, for 2 nights, where ...

You'll be shocked that we only spent one day in Trujillo to visit Chan Chan and the sun and Moon Pyramids. Apart from the monotonous drone of our Brummy/Ozzy/South African/Papua Newguinean guide it was a really interesting day. The ruins of Chan Chan ...

It's been a while since I've seen cool ruins but Chan Chan did not disappoint. I went with my buddy Jakob to take a self guided tour. The ruins are from the Chimu culture and the area around the Tschudi compound that we toured at one time housed about ...

... Holmes!). On the Sunday we went out to the Chan Chan ruins, just outside town, but I'll let Alex talk about them... Alex: Chan Chan was excellent, really different to the other ruins we have been to so far. It is the largest adobe/mud city in the ...

... we went to the most famous site in Trujillo and the largest pre-Columbian city in South America.  This site is known as Chan Chan and was created by the Chimu peoples between 850 and 1470AD.  Like the Moches, everything they built was from ...