We visited the city of Trujillo as there are numerous pre-Inca ruins near-by as we both felt it was important to see more than just the typical Inca ruins. We visited Huacas del Sol and del la Luna, two hugh and fascinating Moche pyramids made from adobe bricks (i.e. made out of dried mud). Before the Spaniards destroyed most of Huacas del Sol i...

Today we visited the other significant Moche site in the area, the Huacas Sol y Luna. With limited time, I was questioning whether to visit another Moche site, when there are other archeological sites from other civilizations. We are SO glad that we went here. The Sipan site we visited the week before was largely eroded. However, this site has b...

Day 2 at the beach and want a new hostel as ours is pretty horrid - and the window won´t shut! Good security! Alex and Michelle find a nicer hostel to more to, then its back to the beach! Somehow, Sven, a day behind us, manages to find us on the beach - i think its our fantastic panama hats! We didn't get round to surfing, just swimming in the s...

Our next stop is Trujillo, a city 4 hours south on the Peruvian coast. After our noisy stay in Chiclayo we decided to stay in Huanchaco, a surf spot twenty minutes from Trujillo. It is a small coastal town with the sea to the west and desert to the east, south and north. The town was quiet and peaceful, almost like a Sunday afternoon but from wh...

27th September 2007 - Day 108 After a bad nights sleep on the bus we arrived in Trujillo even before the cockeralls were up, and after trying most of the hotels in town we settled for Casa Clara which we oldly enough was ran by a man from Birmingham. It was a bit of a strange set up with kids running amock around the house and countless ladies a...

We got to Trujillo at 6 in the morning. As usual taxi men are waiting to give you the greatest deal so we hopped in and wanting to get out of the city, no offense to people living in trujillo but we needed a little change from the city scene, so towards the beach it was. There's a little town about 20 minutes outside of Trujillo called Huanchaco...

Scheisse, dass sind die woerter die peruaner kennen, die eine deutsche freundin hatten. der kollege hat mich heute in der huaca de la luna "geguided", war sehr interessant, da die moches nur malen im kopf hatten, sind dort hauptsaechlich gesichter ihres gottes und viele andere symbole auf den mauern aufgezeichnet, ansonsten haben sie noch mensch...

alors j ai reussi a motiver les canadiens pour aller visiter au moins les sites Chimu de Chan Chan, et les temples Huaca Arco Iris (ou aussi appele Huaca del dragon) et ainsi que le musee chimu et le dernier temple, la Huaca Esmeralda. alors on est alle en bus jusqu a l entree du site en esperant pouvoir choper un guide freelance pour pas cher e...

After a quick stop at the beach in northern Peru to get nice and sunburnt (I can´t believe I still fall for that ´windy weather means I´m not getting burnt´ thing!), we took another long bus journey down to Trujillo. This wasn´t the most interesting town, but we took a whistle stop tour of a couple of pre Inca sites, which were really interestin...