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Trujillo - Pre Inca tour

We got to Trujillo early morning, this was our second bus ride in Peru and it took 10 hours (more than what we expected). i still havn't got used to this bus rides that's for sure. we looked for a hostal (that we`ve heard about from Pilar), it's a place owned by some jewish family (Valderama family). after finding our hostal easily in Huaraz we decided to look for this one by ourself again. we walked for like 20 minutes and we gave up looking, we stopped a taxi and showed him the address. 20 minutes drive and we got there, apperently Trujillo is a pretty big city (800,000 people, Huaraz was about 100,000) and there are 3 Habana's streets (the hostal is at Habana street depends in which neighborhood) so we got our lesson. we were so tierd from the bus ride that we decided to rest in this day and take the tour tomorrow.

we met Laura (a local guide, famous among the israelis) at the hostal, she explained us a little bit about the area and what we can do here. we told her that we want to go for the tour tomorrow because we`re too tierd. we went to sleep for few hours and then we left for a short walk around the plaza to have a look at the city. we spent the rest of the day just walking around and checking what the city has to offer.

the next day we met Laura and left for the tour, we picked 2 more israelis girls from the main plaza of Trujillo who also came to take the tour. the first place we visited was the Moon Temple, which was a big sand dune that holds a pre-Inca culture (the Moches) temple. the temple was interesting, it was built like an upside down paramide. the Moches used to fill it up every few years and build a bigger and heigher level on top of it. near the Moon temple there`s another sand dune which is called the Sun temple (but the peruvians didn't dig it up becouse they don't have the money for it, the main sponser for the digging is a bear company called Cristal). the names of the temples are not the original names, the names have been given by the archaeologists. the Moon temple is only partly digged becouse you can't keep on digging without taking the heigher level apart so they leave it like this.

we left for the next temple, the Chan-Chan mud temple (also pre-Inca). this temple was under heavy restoration, almost all the decoration is restored. it's a very small temple and it looks like a stage, the important people used to stand on top of it and talk to the people from above. the height in this cultures is very important and it's usually a sign for power or holiness.

leaving for the next place, Tschudi palace of the Chimo culture (there's more then one palace around and they look very bad becouse of time and weather damages it also being very badly kept. if i had a feeling that peruvians don't appriciate their culture before, now i was sure of it). all the area of Trujillo is suffering from the El-Nino effect (warm water current in the ocean that comes from the north and should be stopped from a cold water current from Antartica). this effect cause a lot of 'unnormal' events, for example the plants in the ocean that the fish use for eating is dying becouse of the hot water and the fish die becouse they don't have what to eat. in the palace we saw many decorations that describe this event and the archaeologists say that the culture that lived here suffered from it more then 500 years ago. there's also a tomb for the king mummy (the mummy isn't there ofcourse) but it's surprising that it reminds the Egyptian culture.

we left the palace for some fun and we headed for Huanchaco, a small fishermans village 10 minutes from Trujillo. we got there by sunset and we stopped the taxi next to a small church that has a view from her tower to the ocean. we got out from the taxi and Laura asked the guy who rings the bell to wait for us to climb up. we climbed up in the small stairs and when we got up there the guys started ringing the bell, we looked at the view and enjoyed the moment. after the bell rigning was over we went for a walk next to the beach, we saw some local fishermans kayaks and some daily catches from the ocean. we stopped in a restraurent becouse Uzi wanted to try some of the local ceviche (Peru is famous for it and it's very popular in this area). while Uzi was eating Laura told us about the current Peru events (elections were about 2-3 weeks ago) and the Peruvian culture. it was interesting as much as the temples that we saw, if not even more. Laura said she knows a nice place for dinner or coffee so we went to check it out. the place is a vegeterian restaurent called "Otra Cosa" (diffrent thing in spanish) owned by dutch couple that decided to move to Peru. Laura recommanded the apple pie so i got that one, they also had falafel on the menu and i wanted to give it a try. the apple pie was the best i ever ate in my life but the falafel was bad and i think they should remove it out from the menu. we took a taxi back to the Valdarama's and said our goodbyes. the tour was great and we really enjoyed it, tomorrow we're leaving for Ica.

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