Huanchaco Beach

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 …

adios Ecuador. HOLA Peru. the drive heading southwest wasn't the most scenic and a bit of a disappointment. a whole lot of barren desert and poverty. SO MUCH desert that at one point it was all you could see. as far as the eye could see. catch my drift? SO MUCH poverty that every thirty minutes you would drive by a twenty. mud hut. town. our …

Huanchaco is a chillaxed beach town near the city of Trujillo. The beach is nothing to write home about but it looked like a great place to learn to surf (which I was too lazy to try). Between here and the city are the Chan Chan ruins which are pre-Inca adobe ruins.

After getting a minor stomach bug in Huaraz (not uncommon amoung …

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.

... mud walls! Who knows what wonderful secrets are waiting to be discovered there... After a sunset stroll back on the beach at Huanchaco, and another yummy BBQ meal (how sad, we returned to the same restaurant we´d been to the previous evening!) we ...

... in at that point - that's the only problem with the long haul bus journeys, getting the timing right for your arrival. Huanchaco is a really nice beach town, popular with the surfers. As soon as I got there I felt like I was in Weston-Super-Mare, where ...

... Trujillo at about 9pm. Being as organised as ever, we got out the lonely planet and started searching for a place to stay in Huanchaco which is about 15mins by taxi from Trujillo. I rang the first place and asked in my best spanish 'Hablas Inglis?'. ...

... now) we headed up to the very north of Peru to another small village, popular with surfers, called mancora. Saying goodbye to Huanchaco was hard. It had been such a fun and realxinf week and because of the amazing friendliness of the locals, we were ...

... that I look forward to bringing back to England with me in November, just in time for Christmas! Now we are in Huanchaco, another beach town further south. We only got here late last night and we´re moving on tomorrow, but it gave us enough time to ...

... both delicious, South America may turn us into fish eaters yet! We then spent the day on the beach watching the surfers, Huanchaco beach has one of the longest left breaking waves in the world, so it was cool to watch them fire along it. We were going ...

... , we decided to check into a hotel, even if we decided to get teh night bus out... - we got a taxi to take us to Huanchaco which is a small fishing village just out of Trujillo and checked into our hotel... 50s for a day, steep but I just needed to sleep ...

... dans la jungle, passage frontiere ridicule a 4h du mat´, changement de bus a Piura pour Trujillo dans la matinée, et arrivée a Huanchaco a 18h. Par fatigue, je me fais voler mes lunettes de soleil et mon lecteur musique. Rapide le voleur péruvien, et ...

... east to be like) - really weird! pengs: We headed to a small village by the coast that had a decent surfing scene, Huanchaco. We tried to surf the one day but the water was freezing, I was convinced that there were crocodiles in the sea with me ...

After a long truck ride south through the desert we got to Huanchaco, a small fishing and beach resort which is also the site of a large number of ruins. We stayed in a lovely hotel which was a nice change after camping on the beach and allowed us to get ...