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Chiclayo Slideshow
Chiclayo
Travel Blogs from Chiclayo, Peru
Bruning museum - photos allowed YAY!
Also visited this museum in Lambayeque, which houses pieces from various sites and cultures in northern Peru - Moche, Sican and Inca. Very ...
Kings and Tombs
Arrived in Chiclayo late in the evening, had some lomo soltado for dinner ( beef tomato and rice) then off to bed. The next day we did a tour to Sipan, the site of some Moche pyramids and tombs from 100 to 700AD. We walked ...
Lord of the Miracles
... 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 ...
Treasures unearthed
... in 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 ...
Peru - The early days
... ;we would find out why later in the trip. After sitting on the bus for 100s of miles of flat and boring desert we finally arrive at Chiclayo. It must have the most taxis in the world and every one of 'em beeps their horn at us to see if we want a ...
Sunrise in Ecuador, Sunset in Peru!
... 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 ...
Leaving Chiclayo Good news!
... position here in Peru and ventured on to the next place. We spent the last month in a northern town of Peru called Chiclayo. We taught English to a group of people who volunteer to conserve the environment and teach children about ...
Quick stops to Quito
... frantic 4am taxi ride trying to find a room in a city set to brimming with Peruvians hoping to celebrate their Independence Day Chiclayo-style. A taxi driver whose eyes lit up at the opportunity to drive us to every hotel in town and charge us double ...
Chiclayo...
Visited the popular Tombs of Sipan museaum today... whilst i am not a big fan of museums i really enjoyed this one. The Toms are in a town called Lambayeque, 15 mins from the centre of Chiplayo. The museum hosts the skeleton and all the fine jewels and ...
Pictures
Im sure you dont want to hear about the lovely day I just spend on the beach- at least not those of you in MN! So Im just going to post some pics. ...
Shoe shop intensification ray
... . There are hundreds of shoe shops selling every conceivable style and even more stalls in the market. Apologies for my digression. Chiclayo isn't a tourist town really but Alicia and I came here because it is near to some interesting sites. We checked ...
A town for haircuts, bbq chicken, taxis, and shoes
... the wall, but it ended up being one of hte best haircuts he has ever had! http://www.flickr.com/photos/fairlytall/2787445128/in/set-72157606559032423/ So far, Chiclayo wins the prize for friendliest people and most cheerful ...
Tired but here
After a long night and half a day of buses, yesterday I arrived at my first stop in Peru. Chiclayo. First impressions, well I started with a classic Frank Spencer, the cats done a whoopsi on the door step and followed it up with a Bruce Forsythe, anything ...
Border Dash
... travels for the next 3 days and 3 nights towards a more inland border crossing into Ecuador at La Balsa. Our stopovers included Chiclayo to check out the Mercado Modelo, famous for all manner of herbal medicines - alot of ominous looking cacti and fungi ...
The border crossing.
... Either Al and I are babyfaced or clearly look so un-professional. We have a quick stop in Piura to change buses and then head to Chiclayo. We have an interesting time at the bank when we are trying to take out money to pay for our up and coming Machu ...
pyramids, tombs, and a guinea pig
... cocktail. However, at this restaurant they’re made TABLESIDE!!! Awesome! Our meal then proceeded and Amber ordered the regional chiclayo specialty arroz con pato (rice with duck) but this dish is slowly cooked with cliantro, garlic, and ...
Quite Frankli, a great night
... that perhaps the third glass was for offerings to the beer god as there are some strange rituals around here and witchcraft market in Chiclayo, so we poured a small amount into the extra glass for good luck. The beers here come in huge bottles so we ...
El Señor de Sipán
... after that we went shopping for a tour of the ruins of the region. We were lucky there too, as we got two tours, one of Chiclayo today and one of Trujillo tomorrow, for the price of 90 Nuevos Soles per person (~30$US). Tons of things to see! :) ...
I like to tour
... were however not excavated and apart from climbing up them to see where all the sites were, there wasn't too much too them. Peru really needs to get it's act together with their history, it's a gold mine for their culture and the resultant tourism. ...
Crazy Chiclayo
... in, honking your horn! Crossing the street here is akin to an adrenalin sport! Most of the attractions for travellers to Chiclayo are outside the city, but I found the central market interesting - hundreds and hundreds of stalls sprawling over several ...
fleeting visit to Chiclayo
... 'n was buried around 1AD and that the Lord of Sipán was a direct descendant. The tombs themselves are about 2 hours away from Chiclayo and as I was short on time, it was recommended that I go to the museum in Lambayeque where they are displaying all ...
More ruins, more mummies and more ruins
... older ones stayed well protected from erosion, and now we can still see their colourful decorations. Last Peruvian stop: Chiclayo. It's a complex of tens of tombs of kings and priests from the Sipán area, about 17 centuries ago. Although ...
Chiclayo - Peru
Another overnight bus, another town. We were going through Chiclayo to probably the best preserved pre-Incan ruins anywhere in this part of the world, Kuelap, further north, and had the daytime free between night buses, so hightailed it an hour out ...
Witch doctor yeah right
Chiclayo was just a short stop over and once again not much to do in this city. We got off the bus and asked a taxi to take us to a hostel the Lonely Planet suggested. We spent the next few minutes in the taxi on the way to a hostel arguing with the ...
Tales of grave robbing and ancient treasures
A few hours north of Trujillo we travelled to the town of Chiclayo as a base to visit the Tombs of Sipan and the renowned Museo Tumbes Reales de Sipan. This is considered one of the best museums in Peru as it showcases the ...
Overnight buses make me tired
... us decided that we wanted to leave Chachapoyas on the Sunday night bus. It's a 10 hr ride from Chachapoyas to Chiclayo and there are only night buses. Unfortunately when we went Sunday morning to buy tickets the nicest bus was completely sold ...
Tiny yellow taxis
... own drinks so I was sampling those too.. quit an unexpected pleasant afternoon. At 3:00 we caught a 7 hour bus journey through to Chiclayo, I was watching the scenery go by and was amazed to see such a contrast between some areas of complete desert, then ...
Prvni mesto v Peru
... Sican v mestecku Ferrenafe. Tam jsme se seznamili s ruznymi predkolumbijskymi kulturami, ktere pusobili ve zdejsi oblasti severniho Peru. Pruvodkyne byla celkem fajn, tak jsme se dozvedeli ruzne zajimave veci. Nasledujici zastavka byla zlaty hreb ...
Chiclayo
... the boarder took well over an hour as the computer on the Ecuador side broke down. it took all day to get from Cuenca to Chiclayo on the first day there we went to the Moche ruins of Sipan which are famous because of all the burials they found here ...
Pyramides, Gold and Purgatory Mountain
The next morning a now more talk active Pedro and I met Andrea and Frans Josef at breakfast and decided to team up yet another day to visit the pyramids at nearby Sipán. We took a ¨combi¨ (the Peruvian version of the small overloaded vans that you can ...