Around Chiclayo

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I bet you didn´t expect to hear from me again so soon! In the last blog I didn´t talk about the tourist sites we´ve visited around Chiclayo. There are quite a few vestiges of old (pre-inca) civilisations in the region, some of them were only discovered half a century ago (the famous Sipan Lord). We spent a day visiting the Tucume Pyramids, which are the remains of a city part of the Lambayeque/Sican (and afterwards Chimu) reign.

A few days before Easter, we went to Motupe to see a famous cross on the top of a hill. People come from all over the country to climb up to the cross and ask for a miracle, but the scenery is also nice. When we arrived at the start of the climb, I felt my stomach was in a funny mood, and as we got nearer to the cross it turned into a serious stomach upset. In the end I spent about 2 hours coming back down, spending most of my time on the toilet.... And as you can imagine the toilet facilities were almost non existent. We had a good laugh afterwards about me being a vampire because I can´t go near a cross but the rest of the afternoon wasn´t very fun for me!

Anyway we took plenty of pictures so here they are...

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Photos

Me, Pierre and some Regional Food
Well, what was left of it. That's not a bottle of coke, by the way. It's "chicha", a regional alcoholic drink, made from sweetcorn.

The Tucume Pyramids - View from the Top
With an rather large cactus in the way

The Tumbes Reales Museum
Contains the Sipan Lord relics

Tucume Pyramids - View from the Top
Ok there´s not much left, but it was quite spectacular from up there

Tucume Pyramids -The Sacred Mountain
This old civilisation was built around this sacred mountain, supposed to be protected by demons. If you look closely you can spot one. Or maybe it´s Pierre?

Regional food
Sorry I don´t feel like translating everything

Hans
The son of the couple who are renting rooms out to me and Pierre