Huanchaco, Peru Travel Blogs

Reed boats and adobe ruins
Dec 29, 2005 (7 photos)

... ´d seen in Ecuador. Mmmmm... I wasn´t too sure I liked this place. Having arrived in Trujillo, we headed straight for Huanchaco, a seaside fishing village about 10km out of town. Arrived there at about 4pm and, having checked into a basic but clean place, ...

Mancora, Huanchaco, Huaraz
Oct 11, 2006 (26 photos)

... was just the perfect place to relax after getting wound up at the border. Our next stop was the small fishing village of Huanchaco, famous for it's surfing fisherman who ride the waves to and from shore in sea-horse shaped reed boats in order to go and ...

South from Ecuador to Peru
Nov 11, 2006 (18 photos)

... to sleep 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 ...

Surfs up Dude!!!
Aug 15, 2005 (10 photos)

... 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?'. An ...

Can I hang ten?
Aug 15, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Ciao Ecuador, Hola Peru
Jun 16, 2008

... invention 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 ...

Fishing for Chilaco y Chan Chan Ruins
Oct 27, 2009

... 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 for ...

Huanchaco - we´re knackered!
Jun 19, 2008 (2 photos)

... lies next to Huanchaco. The trip has been interesting. We´ve moved from lush green landscapes into complete desert! Absolutely incredible! Huanchaco is famous for it´s fishermen who go out on very narrow boats made from reeds and paddled with a bamboo pole ...

The Mud City of Chan Chan
Nov 13, 2006 (7 photos)

... patterns but outside they were of warriors and various animals, including a lizard which had been uncovered only days before. The other highlight of Huanchaco was that I tried cerviche - raw seafood 'cooked' in lemon juice, which was ok but a bit sour.

The first of many ruins!
Nov 15, 2006 (4 photos)

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 ...

Surfer dude
Jan 7, 2007

... we depart Ecuador, and head into the Peruvian desert. After 33 hrs, and 4 different buses, we arrived in the surf hotspot of Huanchaco. Deciding a few days of beachtime R & R were in order, we planned to learn to surf while we we were there - ...

In Search of Ancient Ruins and Epic Waves
May 15, 2008 (13 photos)

... up on an offer to paddle us out in the back of the boats and surf back to the beach through the very chilly water. Near Huanchaco are some very important ruins dating back to 100AD and we spent a day visiting a few really cool sites. Huaca de la luna - ...

Darkest Peru
Oct 7, 2006 (12 photos)

Hello, I am currently staying in Huanchaco a nice little beach resort close to Trujillo. In the last 2 days have visited lots of fab archeological sites, all have to have hairless dogs living there (is the law bizarrely!). The mud city of Chan Chan was ...

Huaca de la Luna
Mar 30, 2009 (5 photos)

Today I visited Huaca de la Luna, an amazing Moche site, 1500 years old, near Trujillo. It is a large temple which has only been excavated in the last ten years or so. There are five temples in all, one built on top of the next every 100 years like a ...

A city made completely out of mud
May 22, 2007 (11 photos)

Huanchaco, PERU   Traditional "Cabellito" boats, beachfront seafood restaurants, and thrill-seeking surfers galore...this is where many travellers fortunate enough to be in Peru's north coast find themselves spending more than a few nights.  & ...

Life´s a beach
May 7, 2007 (10 photos)

Hello, Spent the last couple of days staying in Huanchaco a small beach-side town about 20 minutes away from Trujillo in a place called Casa Suiza. The beach here was lovely and stretched as far as the eye could see in both directions. In fact the ...

First Part of Trip
Jan 1, 2009 (83 photos)

I began the trip flying into Lima, the crazy capital of Peru. Huge, loud, and polluted, it would be nice heading north to the the Andes.  From Lima,  traveled to Huanchacho, a beach town near the larger Trujillo. There I met ...

Huanchaco and Chan Chan
Feb 9, 2009 (4 photos)

We got up early and headed to Huanchaco which is equally as impressive an Mancora, with a great beach and good waves. We checked into a very nice hostel, overlooking the beach owned by a Norwegian guy. We decided to spend two days and one night here and ...

Surf´s up
Aug 13, 2007

... the ghettofabulous one. No one was very pleased about that one. So it was nice to arrive in the small fishing town of Huanchaco, 20 mins from Trujillo. It is so tranquil her and everyone is so laid back here probably due to the fact that 90% of ...

Chan Chan and Temples
Aug 23, 2007 (22 photos)

So after another 10 hours on a bus, arrived at Haunchaco, after a quick dinner, I was really tired so hit the sack!  The next day we got up early to see around the Chan Chan palace.   It is a world heritage site, there are lots of ...

Sun, surf and sand
Sep 21, 2004 (4 photos)

... decorated with fish, fishing nets, pelicans and wave patterns. They designed the totora reed boats still used by fishermen in Huanchaco. They were pretty bloodthirsty, or their gods were anyway, and being a virgin around there wasn't a very smart move. ...

Trujillo-Huanchaco
Dec 7, 2006

Trujillo-Huanchaco

It`s Christmas - surf`s up!!
Dec 24, 2008 (5 photos)

... 40 hours of buses! Next morning it was back on the road though as we took our 5th bus to Trujillo, and then jumped on a Huanchaco bound collectivo, one of the many minivans which run back and forward with people jumping on and off as they go! ...

Le site de Chan Chan
May 26, 2009 (17 photos)

... est vraiment impressionnante de par sa grandeur et de plus le travail de restauration est très bien effectué. Je rejoins Lucie a Huanchaco, une station balnéaire connue pour ses spots de surf et ses pêcheurs qui utilisent depuis plus de 2000 des Caballito de ...

Exploring the Sipan and Moche cultures
Nov 6, 2009

... The fishermen here ride out across the rolling breakers on flimsy reed rafts to spend the day in the sun making their living. Huanchaco is surrounded by splendid reminders of the Sipan and Moche cultures, and while we were here, we visited: - Reputedly one ...

Last stop in Peru... Beach time!
Oct 31, 2009 (7 photos)

... relax, and enjoy our last few days in Peru, and as we hadnt seen a beach on all our travels so far, we opted for Huanchaco. Nearby Trujillo has many archaelogical sights to see, but to be fair we were all sightseed out for a while!   It was perfect; ...

Chan Chan, Surfing, Trujillo
Jul 28, 2008 (8 photos)

... . What with that, and the cold Brig and I soon decided to make the switch to the more familiar body boards. Huanchaco was a good place to spend a few days recovering from night buses and what we now call "the canadian chronicles". The town is a ...

Trujillo, Madly, Deeply
May 2, 2009

... ) it gives an impression of how the people lived and the sheer scale of the city!   Apart from the sight seeing, Huanchaco was a great place to kick back and take things easy. It is a sleepy little seaside town but a great place to watch ...

Huanchaco
May 3, 2007 (15 photos)

4 hours from Chiclayo (bus followed by taxi) was the beach resort Huanchaco where the surfers seemed to rule. This was a great place to chill out and enjoy the seaside whilst being close to the ruins of Chan Chan and the Huacas of the Moon and Sun. We ...

Trujillo - Huanchaco - Huaraz
Jun 13, 2005

Well, since the last entry I wrote we left Mancora, the beach resort with a nightbus to go to Huanchaco, which is classified as a small fishing village in the guidebook, but seems more like a resort near a bigger town and not that exciting. It is winter ...