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- Lima
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- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
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- 27,483,864
- Population
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Trujillo Slideshow
Trujillo
Travel Blogs from Trujillo, Peru
Chan Chan
Départ à 9h pour Chan Chan en taxi pour 8 soles. Arrivée sur le site on paie un billet 11 soles (comprend 4 monuments). Chan Chan est un site immense, il comporte 9 batiments mais seul un seul est visitable (le Palais Tschudi) et n'est pas visitable ...
the shemale from Thailand followed me to Peru
The past days and nights have left an endeliable and undisputable relic inside my years, the ethnicity, the never, the design, the sloppy words, cut and dried. The only way you can accept the future, is to know something of the rhyme and reason, the ...
Chiclayo to Trujillo (Mocha Culture)
Hola Dears, We are currently in Trujillo, a charming colonial city in Northern Peru. It competes with the Southern Arequipa on the 2nd largest city in Peru (and on our liking as it has a special charm). We flew (3 flights on same day) ...
a long, boring tale of borders, buses, and monkeys
... thick-shelled green thing with the white, coconut-like inside and dark pits that they sold on the bus...a "gua-gua"??). Anyway Trujillo, for some reason, I liked. I've been here three days now, but I'm about to head off to nearby Huanchaco. I'm even ...
Journey into pre-Incan times...
Huaca del Sol y de la Luna (Moche culture) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaca_de_la_Luna Huaca Arco Iris http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaca_del_Drag%C3%B3n Chan Chan (Chimu culture, UNESCO wolrd heritage) ...
Cultura e Festa!
... all' hotel... dopo essermi recuperato dalla gran sfaticata, posso dire che é stato un gran bel viaggio! Poi Trujillo capitale del ballo peruviano 'La Marinera', citta coloniale e con tantissime civiltá antiche che hanno lasciato tracce nella ...
Trujillo - Chimu and Moche civilisations
We are now in Trujillo further up Peru´s coastline.THis city was founded by Pizarro back in 1534 and named after his hoe town in Spain (Extremadura). Ther are lots of elegant colonial churches and mansions here, particularly around thge Plaza de Armas. ...
7 Months
... bars! Friday, we get our tickets for another night bus :-(, this time to Huaraz in the mountains. We check out Trujillo, with a beautiful centre, and great ice cream more importantly! We even manage to persuade the bus stewardess we should have the ...
Historical downtown Trujillo
... tour of the Urquiaga house, a colonial style home right on the central plaza, where Simon Bolivar (one of the father's of s. American independence) stayed while in Peru. Trujillo was a key city in the fight for independence from Spain. ...
Holy Smokes!
So, I decided This might be a little easier for those who I know will check this and mostly because I want to have a back up place for all my pictures. But hopefully I will not lose my camera or my memory card and this will just be a nice palce for you ...
Mud brick cities and reed fishing boats
We weren't looking forward to the overnight bus trip from Huaraz to Trujillo, expecting winding, bad mountain roads. In the event the road turned out to be better than the one we came on from Lima. We had "semi cama" (reclining) seats and both ...
Pyramids
Trujiillo is famous for being home to some pre-inca pyramids, which we were keen to see. We got an over-night bus from Lima to get a guide to show us these pyramids. In the morning we went to see a Moche pyramid, Huaca de la Sol. The Moches were ...
Welcome to the Sand Castle
... , I guess. They can't take the heat (Martin: Canadians are softies - can't take the rain/cold). In approximately 36 hours in Trujillo we managed to see it's poster attraction: Chan Chan. Chan Chan is the largest known pre-inca city in South America. It ...
Lets learn something
... made it to Tumbes he had dropped his price to $60 dollars and also agreed to pay for my $15 ticket to Trujillo. Sometimes it seems that you have to wade through awful circumstances to break ignorance. I will never have these issues ...
Trujillo
... right off the ocean though getting chilly as the sun is setting. We get back on the road heading south and finally reach Trujillo. Our hotel is being remodeled and the reconstruction noises finally end while we're having dinner in the hotel. We're ...
The Easy Life
Jolene and I took a trip to Huanchaco, a small surfing beach town just 20 minutes away from here, on Saturday. We spent the afternoon walking along the beach, visiting the old church at the top of the hill and drinking Pisco Sours. Pisco is a peruvian ...
north to Trujillo
... Started by walking four blocks to the colourful Plaza de Armas and its quaint colonial buildings on all sides. Trujillo is the third largest city in Peru and is the capital of La Liberty region. The city centre is definitely less ornate than ...
op weg naar Trujillo
... de moeder en broers... Oef, ... eindelijk is het gedaan. Ik dacht er wel even aan om Patty dag te zeggen en er vandoor te gaan. Maar ik heb haar nu eenmaal beloofd om een paar dagen met haar weg te gaan... Even later zitten we op de bus nmaar Trujillo. ...
palacios eternos
En mi ignorancia me pregunto, que debemos envidiarles a otras culturas? Chan Chan es un sitio inmenso, con murallas tremendas al lado de las cuales una es como una hormiguita con el cuello doblado mirando hacia arriba y sin que le salga palabra, es ...
Mar 30, 2011
The Beach Town of Huanchaco
... about Seattle which was fun to talk about. The next day we headed to Huanchaco, the beach town just 15km from Trujillo. It was definitely sleepy, as it is the off-season now. After sizing up all the possible places for ceviche, we ...
Pre-Inca Ruins & 'pig-rat' dog in Trujillo
After managing to haggle the manager of Hotel Colonial down from 80 to 55 sol ($19 total) for an OK room, we were persuaded to take their Inca ruins tour, which turned out to be quite interesting. First on the agenda was huaca de la ...
Temple Time
A day visiting the ruins surrounding Trujillo. We first visited the Temple of the Moon & Sun. The Temple of the Moon is the only one that you can walk around. It is a large layered building and would have been magnificent in it´s day because the ...
Huaca El Dragon / Templo del Arco Iris
Monument inclu lui aussi dans le pass de Chan Chan. Là encore heureusement car en 10 min le tour est bouclé. Il ne lui reste que quelques décorations rien de plus, en plus de son architecture bien sur mais pas ...
Brick by Brick
... that seemed to call this seemingly devoid land home. I was out of time, so I'd picked just one to see: Trujillo. The centre of town itself was actually quite pretty, but it was the treasures emerging from the surrounding sands ...
Trujillo
Got to Trujillo in the evening and got a taxi to the hostel we had booked in Huanchaco, a little fishing / surfing village about 10k´s North, as we´d been recommended it by some annoying Australians in ...
