04/07/04- 05/07/04 Trujillo, Peru

As we had been travelling non stop for what felt like ages we decided to book into a nice hotel just outside of Trujillo in Huanchacho. This a fishing village on the pacific coast where the locals use Totora-reed boats to fish. It all sounded very lovely and would have been had the fog from Lima not moved up with us and the hotel been full of very brattish children and fleas. Not surprisingly we decided against spending too much time here and the next day booked a night bus to Huaraz.

This gave us enough time to visit Chan Chan city ruins (I like to think of it as the ancestorial home) and the various other temples in the area including the temples of the Moon and the Sun. These were very impressive. I think that the northern civilazations of Peru tend to be ignored in favour of teh Incas but i have to say that I thought these ruins were fabulous and the guides were very knowledgable so we got to find out loads about the area. We were particularly taken with the Temple of the Moon which they are still digging out, with the help of a beer company so we could even feel good about sponsoring the site, in a roundabout way.

Trujillo itself is a pretty town with lots of friendly locals just waiting to weigh you.


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Me looking at map. Marvellous. Really pretty square in the city- did loads that day and ate biggest meal ever. I was 5 and a half stone. Locals need new scales. That was before the really big meal.