Huaca del Sol y la Luna Trujillo

An early morning arrival after our forty hours travelling we found a lovely taxi man to take us to Huanchaco, a smaller place outside of Trujillo which had been recommended rather than staying in the city. We came across many hostels, all which seemed to be deserted and tried to get into one but there was no response. Feeling desperate to sleep we …

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 …

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 …

Before coming to Peru I was aware of the Incas but that was pretty much it in terms of the country´s indigenous groups. It turns out though that Incas only ruled for about 100 years in the fifteenth-sixteenth century and that there are ruins from different groups that are far older. I went on two tours just outside of Trujillo to check them out. …

We arrived in Trujillo early in the morning. Our rough guide was little help on the hostel front but fortunately we had a low down on a hostel from a guy we met travelling. Infact we was the one who persuaded us to come here as the place is run by archaeologists.

Trujillo is a bit of a dodgy place. I did not like it too much. It is a very …

Huaca Del Sol. It's a big pile of adobe bricks and sand, they haven't started digging it up properly yet. Huaca De La Luna. Now that's worth a look. I wasn't going to bother but I had free time and Jasmina was keen to check it out so we headed over with her mate from Trujillo, Antonio. This one is old, older than Chan Chan and belongs to the Moche …

... world! Today, wednesday, we had one of the best days of our trip. so many interesting things. We wanted to go to the Huaca del sol y la luna (temples of the sun and the moon) which is on the other side of the main town. we caught the collectivos into ...

... leave us exhausted which seems so backwards considering the lack of energy exertion. Annoying really. Next day we headed out to Huaca del Sol y La Luna, which are ruins around half an hour out of Trujillo. Getting there was fine. We headed in and ...

gegen 13:40 sind wir dann am pyramidentempel huaca de la luna (tempel des mondes) angekommen. der taxifahrer verschwand und wir gingen zur reception. dort mussten wir feststellen dass es die karten leider nicht dort, sondern ca 800m zurück durch die ...

One week down! We start this morning with fog as usual and drive southeast to the two neighbors: Huaca del Sol and La Luna. This was a major Moche community with 2 temples and a residential area. As we previous temples, it went through several iterations ...