Trujillo: 2008

"Papa rellena" means "stuffed potato" in Spanish; these were stuffed with ground beef, hard-boiled egg, garlic, green onions and spices, deep fried and topped with cabbage and aji. I ate two of them on my birthday. They are delicious, and they cost the equivalent of 30 cents. The fact that I bought it and ate it on the beach only made it better.
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Ceviche

We also went to the nearby sea side resort of Huanchaco to match the fisherman in their caballitos de totora or totora reed boats and enjoy some tasty ceviche.

Huaca Arco Iris

trip into the north of Peru we visit Cajamarca a lovley colonial city set up in wonderlul green countryside. Here we visited the banos del Inca hot termal baths. The casa del rescate and the ventanillas de Otuzco. From Cajamarca we headed to Trujillo another colonial city of Northern Peru,with many archeological sites around like Chan Chan the larges adobe city in the world. The huacas del Sol y de la Luna, and Arcoiris. We also went to the nearby sea side resort of Huanchaco to match the fisherman in their caballitos de totora or totora reed boats and enjoy some tasty ceviche.

united colors of sunset

summertime

Peru

Yet another view of the Pacific Ocean, this time from Huanchaco in Peru

Moche palace

Chan Chan is the largest mud-brick citadel in the pre-Colombian Americas and the second-largest on Earth.Because in that town the sun's rays burned vath fury, its inhabitants called it "jang-jang" which means sun-sun in the Chimu tongue. Later, the Spanish conquistadors rechristened it as Chan ChanTo Related image to the Multimedia Gallery, a name still borne today byzoom imagen the biggest mud citadel in PreColumbian America and second in importance in the world.Chan Chan, located a mere 2 - miles from the town of Trujillo, capital of the Department of La Libertad, is a majestic citadel of mud brick built hundreds of years ago by the skilled, deft hands of hundreds of men. The ancient capital of the kingdom of Chimu, an important pre-Inca culture established in the Moche valley between the 12th and 15th centuries, sheitered up to 60 thousand inhabitants and stretched over an area of 12 square miles, from the environs of the port of Huanchaco to Cerro Campana.Today the ruins of the citadel that include squares, dwellings, stores, workshops, labyrinths, walls, roads and pyramidal temples, take up an area of four square miles in the valley of Moche and Santa Catalina, formerly known as Chimor or Chimu.The mystique of the Chimus can be sensed with every step taken in Chan Chan, a people dedicated to gold work, agriculture, textiles and architecture.