Recreo Trujillo

... artifacts discovered in the area of Chan Chan (not taken by grave robbers) but when we pulled up we found in true South American style that the museum wasn´t open on Mondays! We hopped back in our taxi and headed to the Dragons Temple (or Rainbow temple). This place was similar to Chan Chan, and was a square like building with one entrance. The walls inside again were again covered in intricate designs, the name ...

... to anyone in English) with visitors from Lima, Piura (in the north), and Argentina. There was one girl from France. We pretended we didn't speak each other's languages and conversed en Espanol.

Our first stop were the Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, more Moche pyramid-temples. The Huaca del Sol is the largest single Pre-Columbian structure in Peru, but like the Sipan mounds, it has melted away with time and now resembles a muddy hill. The Huaca de la Luna, however, has had extensive ...

... around a little bit more checking out the Trujillo sports stadium and then returned to get Andy on the tour bus. He was going to see the same exact tour we had seen 2 moths ago - Chan Chan, Huanchaco, Temple Sun and Moon. I headed out back to the tour agencies to bargain for sand boarding. Jen would arrive the next morning and I wanted to set us all up for a sand boarding trip. After that I went back to the corner café for lunch and ran into two university students who ...

... a different system for building their temples which preserved all the colorful wall decorations (the Chimu didnt use color) really well: They built their temples on top of each other! Whenever 3 or 4 priests in teh original temple had died they would cover it up with brick and build the new one on top and so on. The temple of the moon we visited today had 6 different layers ...

... The price to Hu*nch*co seemed re*son*ble, so we followed him outside... to discover th*t his c*r w*s * be*ten up multi-coloured scr*p he*p on wheels. Bl*t*ntly f*ke ID c*rd! Telling him politely to sod off, we hopped in * yellow *nd more offici*l-looking t*xi *nd were soon on the w*y north to Hu*nch*co.

Once *t the hostel we sorted our stuff out in our rooms then h*d pizz*s *t the hostel rest*ur*nt. Pretty kn*ckered, *fter our m*r*thon 22 hour journey, we soon retired to bed.

... tad tired and grumpy.
Joining forces with an english couple we met at the bus station, the four of us went on the hunt around town for a bed (luckily didnt take too long), and due to our differing budgets ended up staying in different hostels.
Nevertheless the town was not that large, and there was not all that much to do, so we managed to waste away the day visiting the toy museum and making some guacamole and drinking ...

... in *nd w*ited *nd w*ited. There were "others" there *nd so there w*s quite * bit of songjumping going on. The shen*n****ns were beginning to r*ise their mischievious he*ds *g*in so following * rendition of "twit *nd Shout" by scottish m*rc, i w*s out of there. It h*d *ll gone * bit MLE circ* 1988. On the w*y b*ck in the t*xi i w*s propositioned by the driver, not the t*xi driver but the buck driver of the 63 x 24 hour * d*y Tuc*n tour driver. App*rently i flirt ...

... vehicle the bus driver would turn off his headlights COMPLETELY while the other vehicle passed. He did have his running lights apparentñy, as I could see a yellow glow from my position in the front row directly in front of the windshield on the top deck of the double-decker bus. This system kind of worked sometimes, but was of greatest concern when we turned off our headlights heading into a sharp curve at 10,000 feet, with the usual three feet ...

... I am horrified to see them all closed. Sunday still means something here. My e-mails will just have to wait until Monday. Today I will take another tour, this time to the Huaca de la Luna. The Moche culture ran its course 100 to 900 AD, to be replaced by the Chimu of Chan Chan. I am fortunate to be going with Olga again, our Spanish guide from Chan Chan. We are all impressed by her ability ...