Conquistadores Trujillo
Diego de Almagro 586 Trujillo, -, Peru
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Huacas galore
The bus ride to Trujillo was pretty impressive. Along the way the scenery got better and better with desert meeting the coast line and huge sand dunes all the way to the sea. We managed to see the sun set flooding the sand dune in orange and pink.
After a well deserved sleep in Trujillo we set off to explore the Huaca del Sol and Huaca de …
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Huanchaco - Chan Chan ruins
Just to let you know, I tried to upload some pics. Got some up for the Astrid y Gaston Restaurant before the monitor blew. Decided to just give up as all the computers there aren't very good so will update pics once we get back to Toronto. I'm not sure how many pics we took but I can't load them all on my IPAD since the hard drive would be full.
We are now in Huanchaco which is about 20 minutes outside of the town of Lima. This ...
The Easy Life
... that we are going to carve some blades out of. Jolene and I have been figuring out how we´re going to go about it and hopefully should start making them tomorrow. I will try and take pictures as we go along, it´ll be exciting to see the transformation of the block of wood!
The spanish is coming along, I´ve been listening to podcasts and trying my best to practice in the house. ...
Sand palaces and sunsets
... center of about four miles. local rumor is that it is the oldest city in Peru and quite possibly South America. it was made completely out of sand and mud, aka adobe brick. there were bird, fish and net designs carved throughout. as you can imagine, i felt right at home, ha. it was where the food market was held, offerings to the gods, matrimonial ceremonies and royalty burials.
we ...
Beach time !!
... to a temple in the new city area which was pretty impressive in itself. We then went to the museum which showed us how the people us to live and that the majority of the people didn't live in the cities as these were mainly made up of temples to previous kings. The pics in this section is just one temple and it's not even the biggest that try have found. The Chan Chan site was like a massive sand castle someone had made! It's much bigger than i thought it would ...



