Hotel Peregrino Trujillo

Independencia 978 Trujillo, Peru

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Five Short Weeks

A travel blog entry by katrinawm

... in case you want to know, here are the fun facts I´ve learned about how wind turbines work:
When magnets pass in front of copper coils it creates electricity.
In the turbine, the coils stay still in a thing called a stator and the magnets are on a plate that is attached to the blades. So when the wind blows the blades start moving which makes the magnets rotate in front of the coils and this ...

Temples on Temples

A travel blog entry by becca_john2011

... a city which was ruled by the Chimu empire. The walls were engraved with Pelicans, Otters and fish which were sacred to the people. The city was built with mud brick and there was an area which was used as a reservoir. I was quite disappointed that much of the ruins were actually replicas of what was originally there.

Huaca de la Luna – These 'temple of the moon' ruins was a temple built over older ...

Leaving Huaraz for the coast

A travel blog entry by griffs-on-tour

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... out into sunshine and scorching desert. That was somewhat of a surprise…I had thought that only the southern half of Peru’s coast was desert. It turns out it pretty much all is! We followed one of the valleys for a while which was well irrigated and turned over to all kinds of fruit cultivation…grapes, passion fruit, peaches and loads of apples. We quickly made it to Casma, having used only ...

Beach time !!

A travel blog entry by trush-parul2011

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... headed to Piura early in the morning. We had no idea where our first stop was to be so we read up a little from the planet and decided to get a bus to Trujjio. While we were waiting for the bus we ate Peruvian breakfast soap which has a whole boiled egg, chicken,'noddles in a stock. I've got to say with a little bit of chilli it was awesome!
We got to Trujjio and decided to take a taxi to the beach town of Huanchaco. We tried a couple of hostels but to ...

Sand dunes, ruins and the middle of nowhere

A travel blog entry by malloryanne

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... the space we were in.

Next we went to Huaca del Sol (Temple of the Sun) which is a large adobe brick structure built mainly by the Moche people. The Huaca del Sol was partially destroyed and looted by Spanish in the 17th century. The huaca was decorated in registers of murals which were painted in black, bright red, sky blue, white, and yellow. The sun and weather has since faded these murals away, ...

This hotel was formerly known as: Peregrino