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Chiclayo Slideshow
Chiclayo
Travel Blogs from Chiclayo, Peru
What´s Spanish for "Thanks but no thanks"?
... fact that the front desk person just took all the money on site to the bank, we were forced to suck it up and stay. Chiclayo itself is a smallish town with not much going on. We walked around the city for a little while then took a collectivo (Spanish ...
Chiclayo
... ;d had in Lima defiantly wasn’t like this. Just fresh fish cooked only by the acids in lemon juice. After arriving back in Chiclayo I finally managed to convey that I did not want to spend the afternoon with my 50 year old Peruvian date who’d ...
Huaca Chotuna-Chornancap
Museo de Sitio Huaca Chotuna Chornancap The Chotuna Archaeological Complex, neighbouring the village of Chotuna, has remains from the Sican (Lambayeque), Chimu and Inca cultures. Sacrifices from all three cultures have been reported below. ...
Moron Cab Driver
I had a list of 5 hostels picked out in order of my preference. As I stepped off of the bus, a cabbie was waiting directly outside of the door offering a cab ride. I told him the address I needed to go to and was content with his offer to bring me there ...
Easyish Day
Stage 14 Motupe - Lambayeque Dist – 74 Km Altitude Gain – 20 metres Time in the saddle – 3:28 Calorie burn – 1157 cals It's funny how things become relative. For the last 20 years I would have considered a three and a half hour ...
Sipan
... night and then headed off to visit El Museo de Sipan, or the Sipan Museum. The Sipan lived around the coastal areas of Chiclayo and constructed large pyramids built out of adobe bricks around 300 AD. I don’t remember what happened to the Sipan ...
¡Vamos mejorando!
... lo que encontraron en la tumba de este señor. Totalmente increíble, lo disfruté muchísimo, pero no dejan tomar fotos. Chiclayo es una ciudad bonita, a comparacíon con lo que habiamos visto hasta el momento. Probamos el pisco sour en un restaurante ...
Markets and Chifa
... Piura which is really is just a transport hub and not somewhere you want to spend the night. In total, a 17hr travel day! Chiclayo is a dusty mixed scene with lots of moto taxis, casinos and the huge Mercado Central. We checked out the extensive Sharman ...
Lots of Sand.....and then - Chiclayo, then more!
... inland from the Pacific coast and 770 kilometers from the nation's capital, Lima. As of 2011, Chiclayo is the fourth most populous city in Peru with a population of 629,990 (comprising 6 contiguous urban districts: Chiclayo, José Leonardo Ortiz, La ...
Arrivée au Pérou sous le soleil!
... démonstration d'organisation à la frontière avec le Pérou, et après un petit changement de bus à Piura, j'arrive enfin à Chiclayo. En arrivant dans cette ville, je ne pense qu'à y rester une petite nuit et ensuite continuer vers le sud. Et ...
a long, boring tale of borders, buses, and monkeys
... so) to the Linea station, as usual having the luck to arrive about 4 minutes before the next bus to my desired location (Chiclayo) headed out. It was 11 am and already very hot and sticky. The digital thermometer inside the bus read 33°C.(x 9/5 + ...
Chiclayo
... on work and you liked looking at them, I shall add some more soon. We are in a place called Chiclayo at the moment, it is on the coast of Peru and after I finish writing this we are off to the beach to catch some rays. This morning we have ...
the gypsy bus
... was a big surprise as we are camed in sandy dessert and have not seen greenery in hundreds of kilometers. We travelled to Chiclayo marker which was huge, busy and bustling. There was fruit, vegetables, a witched market, clothes, everything you could ever ...
Sipan Culture
... over 6 levels. We spent a good 3 hours in the museum. It was very informative and had a lot of artifacts in copper and gold. Chiclayo has a lot of yellow cabs, they are all the same little car. Went to the market place. It is huge and seems to have ...
Off the Gringo Trail
... ´s nachts zijn we dan in een recordtijd van 10 minuten de controlepost aan de grens gepasseerd, en de stempel 'Peru' in ons paspoort was een feit! In Chiclayo bleken we de enige backpackers te zijn en bevonden we ons voor de eerste keer van de hele trip ...
4tägiger Zwischenstopp in Chiclayo
... Hauptgeschäftsstraße ist und schlenderte durch die Stadt, wollte eigentlich Klamotten shoppen, aber fand nichts gescheites. Da Chiclayo nicht viel Sehenswürdigkeiten zu bieten hat, ging ich dann noch in die Einkaufsmeile, aß seit ...
Señor Sipán
Einen unglaublichen Fund machten Archäologen 1987 im 30 Kilometer von Chiclayo entfernten Sipán: ungeplünderte Fürstengräber. Tonnen von Grabbeigaben, die über 1700 Jahre alt sind, konnten geborgen werden. Hunderte unschätzbar wertvolle ...
Just keep digging - finding the Moche pyrimid
... I go in search of my bus to Sipan pyramids and archaeological site. I didn’t realize but lots of things in the Chiclayo are called 'Sipan’. There’s the museum, the university, the ruins and at least on other place. The ...
FBT
Today marks the end of Field Based Training (FBT). We went to the north to visit a few volunteer sites within the department of Lambayeque like Zaña, Puerto and Cuidad Eten, and Cayalti. We also had the fortune to see a bit of how different the ...
The Lost day
... . then the long ride back toward Lima. We drive around the ruins at Pachacama since we have to rush to the airport for flight to Chiclayo. The grounds are extensive and we wouldn't have been able to walk much of it anyway. The oracle didn't speak, so we ...
Sipan and his merry men
After a long drive towards Chiclayo we visited one of the most famous museums in Peru, Tumbas Reales. The museum is a pyramid structure which attempts to recreate the atmosphere of the Moche civilisation. The purpose of the museum is to display all ...
Get in and get out is all i can say.
Three hours north and we were in the town of Chiclayo. Now i had been warned (thank´s Kate!) about this town being worse than Lima with regards to all the staring and cat calls. And she was right. Absolutely by far my most hated town on this trip... ...
The Worst Week
... trying to figure something out. The complete inefficiency of Barclays has not helped. We eventually managed to escape the horrors of Chiclayo (it's a dreadful, dirty and unpleasant city) for an afternoon at a nearby beach resort. It was good to get away ...
Visiting Peru´s Pyramids
... actually stood on the bridge. Travelled down the coast after entering visiting Piura for a stop over and milkshake, then onto Chiclayo. From here we headed out to Tucame first on the most packed combi-minibus squeezing inbetween the locals then via ...
The only white man in Chiclayo!
l Im having an amazing time, chiclayo is almost as mental as Lima! this is where i am today, i went to a market where they sold sliced sugar cane, you just chew it and spit it out, funnily it tastes just like sugar! The market also had live ...
Chiclayo
Just chilling in Chiclayo, a very normal none touristy busy town on the north coast, waiting for our city tour tomorrow. Nothing too exciting here except there are suppose to be some great museums and sites just out of the city worth ...
Ancient Tombs and Wasted Empanadas
... normally arrive into big cities expecting the usual - too much traffic, crowded sidewalks, rundown neighborhoods, and littered parks. Chiclayo, however, managed to evade all of these common disturbances. It was actually a really nice city - a ...
We´re not in the jungle anymore...
... was a tiring experiance but it went pretty well. We did alot of street ministry in the middle of the city, and Chiclayo has some pretty rough sections, like brett and colin had pickpockets reach in their back pockets once or twice the first time we ...