Trajillo

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After staying in a dismal town called Alausi we pretty much stayed on a bus for the next few days. We stayed in Cuenca where the room was so horrific (the bathroom looked like something out of a horror film) that after a few beers for supper, we booked into somewhere else with only the clothes on our back. After Cuenca was another bus to Tumbes, the border town of Ecuador and Peru. In Peru we went on to Piura and then the next day we arrived in Trajillo, a huge bustling city where at every intersection of road, whoever gets there first has right of way! It has been good to stop for a few days and gather our senses! We visited a 'black beach' that Will was quite pleased about and we also visited some archeological sites. One was not too exciting (Chan Chan) and one that was - The Moche Temples. The Moche temples were built in 400AD. It is being excavated at the moment and it turns out that after the 1st temple was built, and they wanted to improve it, they simply filled it with mud blocks and built another on top. This has been repeated five times. In sight it is really interesting, I don't think my pictures really give it justice.

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Photos

Piura
Flowers in the market.

Piura
Rickshaws or Tuc Tucs...?

Chan Chan
Who's there?

Chan Chan
A well in one of the sites.

The Moche Temples
This was the 3rd temple. There are two underneath which will not be able to be excavated, and two above it.

The Moche Temples
The 3rd Temple.

Will and I
Unfortunatley not concentrating.

Geometrial design of a snake.
On one of the walls of the 3rd temple.