Botanical garden

Final destination

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May 12th 2007
Now we are here, at the end of the trip. Or at least where we are gonna spend our last weeks in South America. We arrived to Trujillo this morning and we have been able to look around the city a bit, and it's loud but quite pretty with it's old colonial houses. Chris has already been away to meet the family his gonna stay with for the next 10 weeks. So this is what I'm doing when he's away soci ... read more

South America » Peru » La Libertad » Trujillo

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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