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Published: March 2nd 2007
From the Mountains of Huaraz, we got a Bus to Trujillo. A very interesting journey through the mountains and eventually across the desert. The Bus was rammed with people, Bex had a little girl sat on her lap for most of the eight hour journey - not good for the bladder!
The following day was Bex´s 22nd! We decided to see the "pyramids" near Trujillo. The site is excellently preserved and dates from before 1500 AD. It was built by the pre-Inca Moche civilization, who believed in a canibal-decapitation God! He doesn´t look too happy in the picture! The culture invovled regular human sacrifices. Following a gladiator style fight the loser would be stripped of thier clothes and decapitated as a sacrifice. Then the high priest would drink his blood! The fighting arena was really well preserved. The purpose of the sacrifice was a kind of gesture to the god, following an El Niño, where much damage was caused by flooding.
We had planned to clebrate Bex´s birthday by going out but unfortunatly she was still ill from Huaraz, so we posponed until the next day!
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Han
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you lucky devils!!!!
Hey Guys... Firstly sounds like your having a wicked time-and how much u deserve it after your months of hard work'!! Secondly, Bex I hope you had a great birthday!! Thirdly, I think I'm going to move to london in the near future to work and live so thats super cool a you guys will be there too!! YEAH! Loving the updates of your trip-how good technology is hey! Dom-hope your fighting off all those gringos who are chatting up Bex! he he. Lots of love guys! xxxxx