Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelHostal Colonial Trujillo
Bumpy, dusty and 1 month anniversary eve!
trujillo, we´re in transit and stayed here one night. the bus ride here was a bumpy, dusty and hellish 10 hours of day time driving subject to road work, road work and more road work. night buses from now on!
we are heading to huaraz tonight and will do some short treks in the mountains maybe 3 days. not much to do here, it´s totally overcast …
Pre-Inca history in Trujillo
For our first day in Trujillo we booked a full day sight seeing excursion to temples and museums in the vicinity of this northerly city.
First stop in the morning was to La Huaca del Sol and La Huaca de la Luna. Translated these are the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Moon. These were built by the Moche civilization and are 1500 …
Colonial streets and ruins of Trujillo
We left Chiclayo early in the morning to head to Trujillo, 3 hours south. As we were heading into the city, we read that there was a festival this weekend and you needed to book your accomodation in advance - whoops. The first hostal we tried was full and could not recommend alternatives as they thought they were also likely to be booked! We …
Sand castles!!
So we decided to ditch the cerveza´s and pisco sours for a few days and turn ourselves into culture cultures!! The north of Peru is said to be the Egypt of the South Americas so I was really looking forward to seeing some more ancient ruins, or ´sandcastles´ as Ash calls them! Our base for a few days while we transformed ourselves into Indiana …
Happy Days and Trujillo
Hola amigos, We're here in Trujillo, the origin of the famous Trujillo beer (for all those beerlovers out there). Gian and I stayed in Mancora for about 1 week. This was out longest stop so far, but I'm glad we did it. We met a cool and unique bunch of people including the frenchies Etienne and Greg, the englishman Will, the irish Niall, etc etc ( …


