Chiclayo, Peru Travel Blogs

Goodbye Ecuador, Hello Peru
Jun 19, 2005

... . I´m currently travelling with a really nice couple, it´s great not to have to entertain myself all the time. I´m now in Chiclayo, a town surrounded by agricultural industry, mainly sugar cane, cotton and rice. The reason to come here is to see the pre- ...

Journey Through Time - Mesa II
Sep 26, 2008 (39 photos)

Our second journey was near Tucume at a place called Bosque de Pumac.  This second mesa was focused on the element Earth and Communion.  After a crazy series of synchronicities we arrived at Bosque de Pumac, a protected area where we found a ...

Brief visit to Chiclayo
Oct 6, 2006

... next bus, wandered to the main square and looked in the cathedral before dinner and then got our bus at 20.00. Chiclayo looked ok although to be fair most tourists come here to see the archaeological sites outside of town. Our interest was sparked ...

I´m English and I´m Lovely
Sep 27, 2006 (18 photos)

... this is the over side of Chiclayo. Museums aren´t really my thing, so i´m glad I came straight here. About an hour outside Chiclayo, the two connecting pyramids have a small museum and four burial pits. Because my night bus got to Chiclayo so early I got to ...

Ecuador into Peru
Feb 16, 2005 (4 photos)

... special. We crossed the border into Peru the next day via Macara (a small border town) and have now spent the last 2 nights in Chiclayo, a fun lively city on the coast in the North of Peru. So far we have really enjoyed Peru (only 2 days in though....) ...

Time to Start Exploring Peru
Oct 1, 2005 (13 photos)

... Mancora. My ankle feels better and I can walk reasonable distances now with much less pain. So I jumped on a bus to Chiclayo, one of Peru's fastest growing cities and home to a few ancient ruins to check out. Most travelers just skip the next few cities ...

Archeological heaven....
Apr 29, 2005 (1 photos)

... ran the Hostal we stayed in in Lima, this whole area is a paradise for archelogical sites of great importance and more..... "Chiclayo", itself is quite an industrious city but further north in "Lambayeque" a small town which is surrounded by three major ...

Journey Through Time 1 - Fire
Sep 23, 2008 (48 photos)

... thousands of years, ever towards higher dimensions. The first mesa of my Huachuma journey is at Tucume, on the west coast of Peru.  It is a mesa of fire in which we will come face to face with our own death as fire allows for transmutation.  ...

Whistles and Decapitators
Jun 9, 2004 (5 photos)

... a bat would fly out chasing me. No bats though. We were dusty but very excited on the mini bus ride back to Chiclayo. We felt like real explorers climbing over the pyramids. Museo Tumbas Reales del Sipán The museum was a replica of the Sipán pyramids ...

The Temple of the Moon
Oct 24, 2008 (5 photos)

... copper in the treasures.    1 - 0 for the Waaka:)   After the tour we caught the bus back to Chiclayo with Miguel, who was on his way to an English class, Miguel gave Wojtek a lesson in chatting up Chikitas in Spanish and arranged to ...

Almost back home again...
May 26, 2009

... guy named Valentin to Transportes Chiclayo, which would charge me 13 soles (about 4 USD) for the 3 hour bus ride to Chiclayo.  Unfortunately.... about literally 20 mins from Chiclayo, we came upon a roadblock on the highway by the farmers who were on ...

Kikiriki!
Jun 28, 2008 (8 photos)

... by) and in you get... for 50c per person! We arrived at Lambayeque, a town about 10 minutes from Chiclayo.  There are 2 great museums here.  The first one we visited was the Bruning National Archeological Museum which has a  ...

Sipan ruins
May 27, 2009

I had some really great pics for Chiclayo... but alas, someone in the jungles of northern Peru is probably enjoying them right now as they snoop through the laptop they stole from me.  I´ll be right back I need a tissue to dry my eyes :( Chiclayo ...

Dímelo Peru, dímelo!
Feb 20, 2007

kurzen zwischestopp in einer meiner peruanischen lieblingsstaedte einlegen, bevor die naechste busverbindung nach tarapoto geht, von dort aus moechte ich dann ein flug nach Iquitos nehmen, da mir die flussverbindung zu lange dauert und ich ...

Musees de Sipan et Sican
May 30, 2009 (8 photos)

... et cachant les dents considerees trop humaines pour cette classe d'hommes proches des dieux. L'apres midi, pendant que Lucie reste a Chiclayo, je me rend a Ferreñafe au nord voir le Museo Nacional de Sican, seul musee sur la culture Lambayeque ou Sican. ...

A good sleep and a shower, bueno
Oct 23, 2008 (5 photos)

45 minutes, lets be quick The first thing you notice about Chiclayo is that there are more taxis here than people.  Impossible you may think but somehow true...  Theý are everywhere; thousands of them.  Little yellow cars just buzzing around ...

Through the roads in Peru
May 15, 2011 (1 photos)

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is highly appreciated. Please contact us by ...

Chiclayo - die zweite Woche
Sep 5, 2008 (19 photos)

... , Krankenhäuser und Laboratorien, aber vor allem gibt es unfassbare Mengen an Schuhen. Es gibt wahrscheinlich in Chiclayo mehr Schuhe zu kaufen als Füße in ganz Peru herumlaufen. Und dabei können sich viele Leute hier gar nicht so viele Schuhe leisten. Dazu ...

PERU, desiertos llenos de historia
May 26, 2007 (8 photos)

... del viaje, no dormimos mucho. Llegamos a Piura sintiendonos como zombies para embarcarnos nuevamente en otro bus con destino a Chiclayo. Llegamos a Chiclayo, y sin tener lugar a donde ir, no tuvimos mas opción que confiar en el taxista que nos llevó al hotel ...

Bruning museum - photos allowed YAY!
Oct 28, 2008 (6 photos)

Also visited this museum in Lambayeque, which houses pieces from various sites and cultures in northern Peru - Moche, Sican and Inca.  Very interesting!

Shamans n Bees
Mar 14, 2007 (8 photos)

... other random items, all of which I declined gracefully and went in search of sustenance. A short bus journey out of Chiclayo is the Sipán archaeological site discovered in 1987 after an influx of beautiful artefact's on the black market were spotted by ...

Pyramid City
Mar 15, 2007 (6 photos)

Not getting my fix of pyramids the previous day, I made a beeline for Túcume, a vast site of crumbling walls and pyramids that can be viewed from a cliff top mirador. The site was once the capital of the Lambeyeque culture and today is an active dig, ...

Lord of the Miracles
Oct 29, 2008 (3 photos)

... Christ, being carried by at least a dozen people.  The procession, I learned, was one of many happening in many parts of Peru this month, to honour the "Lord of the Miracles".  It started centuries ago in Lima, when a black man painted an image ...

Chiclayo
Sep 28, 2006 (4 photos)

This morning we went to the Brujos Mercado (witch doctors market) where we found a shaman who did some magic over some charms we bought which were bottles filled with herbs and liquid. The people throughout the market were really friendly and i finally ...

Treasures unearthed
Oct 27, 2008 (8 photos)

... museums, especially the excellent Museum of the royal tombs of Sipan, which is in Lambayeque, a small town just outside Chiclayo.  This museum was constructed specifically to showcase the finds from Sipan and really is brilliant.  The pieces are ...

Adobe cities and pyramids
May 30, 2006

Le lendemain, j'ai pris un bus de l'excellente compagnie Entrefesa à 12h30 direction Chiclayo, plus au nord. Le paysage est désertique et rocailleux. Cette monotonie est occasionnellement rompue par des champs verdoyants: je soupçonne des cultures de canne à ...

Sunrise in Ecuador, Sunset in Peru!
Oct 27, 2008 (11 photos)

... of 11 hours on a bus!  An 8 hour bus ride from Loja across the border to Piura in northern Peru, then another 3 hours from Piura to Chiclayo.  Actually, it wasn't too bad.  I scored a reasonably comfy window seat, and although the bus was ...

Chiclayo: Land of Sleezy Garagewatcher Men
Apr 6, 2008 (14 photos)

Okay will post fotos here too. here we went to Museo de Sipan which is nice if you like rich dead people and their things who they are buried with. and the witchcraft market.

Surf and buses
Jun 28, 2008 (7 photos)

... Piura, we drove down the straight PanAmericana highway through the desert (Note: we were on the PanAmericana in Otavalo!). Arriving in Chiclayo, we were surprised to find how large it was.  Our bags were still in the bottom of the bus which was ...

At Sipan, the King Tut of Peru
Apr 7, 2005 (6 photos)

Not much in town, but the awe-inspiring dig at Sipan is just a bus ride away and well worth the trip, very interesting, only found in 1987, the Senor of Sipan and all his goodies buried for so, so long........very cool.