Hotel Paraiso Chiclayo

... of the restaurant to point to the tasty looking noodle option.

The food came along with our two beers and three glasses, and the food was rightfully recommended. I suggested 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 ...

... s when a local archeologist noticed the black market was getting filled with artifacts, and he realized there was an incredible burial site was getting ransacked. After some scuffles with grave-robbers, or huaqueros, the archaeologist and the police managed to protect and restrict the site.
We never actually made it to the site as that was further out of town, (we heard it would be closed that day) but ...

... d'ailleurs tres bien expliquees et mises en valeur. Le seigneur de Sipan etait enterre sous 6 couches d'habits de ceremonie avec des bijoux en or et en argent parmis les plus travailles d'Amerique latine, c'est extraordinaire. On trouve aussi d'immenses plastrons ou etandards en or massif et de nombreuses nariguas, des plaques d'or posees sur le nez et cachant les dents considerees trop humaines pour cette classe d'hommes ...

Went to the Museo Tumbas Reales De Sipan. This museum is one of the best in Peru and has the artifacts of 13 tombs found in the Sipan Temple. The Mochicho Indians which lived along the coast of Peru from 100-800AD (pre Inca) had burned their kings and various other figures ranging 500years with the tombs being built on top of each other over 6 levels. We spent a good 3 hours in the museum. It was ...

... what not from the Sican culture. They discovered a tomb which was *really* odd, with the main guy buried upside down, with his head chopped off and laid in front of him, people in weird different poses, and just overall different than a lot of other stuff I've seen. I came back "home" a couple of hours ago, where they're having a "pollada" (party where you pay some soles to get food and beer and music), so I have some cool salsa/cumbia/etc music playing and lots ...

... some other travelers, very friendly host with nice pup MOCHA. Visited the museam and pyramid ruins of tucume with Dax, an English Dj and Stefan, a Dutchman. Enjoyable, humurous trip and then they headed East. A few more days here then to Piura and the northern beaches, and Ecuador by the end of the month. Found a good veg restaraunt its a HARE KRSNA- om. might check out a ghost town later today that was destroyed in an El nino flood. Thats the news over here, until later.

We had several expectations of Peru. We knew it would be poorer. We knew there was a stronger indigenous culture, the strongest since Guatemala. But most on our minds, we had heard that the cops were crooks. The hostel owner in Cali told us that he got stopped for brides 5 times a day on the Panamericana north of Lima. Another traveler, Peter Wyllie and his wife Irinya, had been stopped and paid $50 for not having insurance. And other stories ...