The fishing boats Huanchaco is famous for

Huanchaco (Chan Chan & Trujillo)

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July 25th 2008
All the buses north of Lima were overnighters so we ended up on an 8 hour overnight bus to Trujillo from where we skipped straight through to Huanchaco, a beach town 12km from Trujillo on the Pacific Coast. It's famous for totora (reed) fishing boats called little horses which fishermen surf back to the beach with their catch. We loved being by the sea and even though it's winter the days would st ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more