Trujillo

Huanchaco - Trujillo : 10 miles

Trujillo is not even half a ride away, and has everything Huanchaco doesn't: traffic, crowds, stores, and of course the colonial requirement to be considered anything, a big cathedral and a plaza. My room at Hostal Colonial cost $14, and they had room for Katirga in the lobby. Streets of Trujillo were fun to roam, but my attempt to check out its night life was ill advised. The city's hippest nightclub turned out to be an empty warehouse in identity crisis, with all kinds of junk hanging on the walls from warning triangles to work gloves, and c'mon, a Ford Taunus front grill! Had the music not sucked so bad, I still would've been ok with having waited outside in a line of kids. Oh well, live and get old.

Below: Trujillo





Right between Huanchaco and Trujillo, resides another important city. Or rather, the remainings of a 700 year old adobe Chimu settlement called Chan Chan.

Below: Chan Chan


How can anything made of mud last this long?




This part of the ruins are actually smack dab in the middle of Trujillo rather than Chan Chan. They don't appear that different from the contemporary buildings in the background now, do they?


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