Reisverslag Perú - Travelreport Perú
Outing in Trujillo
Here you find the pictures and stories of my stay in Trujillo, one of the largest cities in Peru after Lima, also called the city of flowers. I stayed there only one day (not enough) during the Semana Santa (17 April 2003) Again, click on thumbnail picture to enlarge and go back to this screen with the upper left backward key Ü
Trujillo - Semana Santa, 17th April 2003
Trujillo is a coastal destination, about 600 km north of Lima, and is famous for its colonial houses and the archeological sites like the antique Chimu city of Chan Chan and de Moche Pyramids Huaca Luna y Sol. It has also some universities and for its size it is remarkable quiet and pleasant city.
Underway you see the coastal desert in all its glory, sometimes interrupted by a green valley where a river finds its way to the sea.
Chan Chan and the Huaca Arco Iris
Arco Iris, an early (9 th C.
BC)
Señor Tamay in his workshop of Moche
Chimu sanctuary,
where
art (marron and yellow with lots of
Si and Ni (Moon and
Earth),
realistic men and animal paintings)
were venerated, as well as the
sea.
and Chimu art (mostly black of
Now and then women and
children
abstract animal representations)
were sacrificed to the Gods
Chan Chan: a 9 till 12th Century BC built
mud city of 28 km2 with at most 60,000 inhabitants then. All of the governors
built there own palace, so 9 of them are included in its city walls, with around
the houses of
the lower classes. Now only the Tschudi palace is the best maintained part,
where you can see walls with
friezes patterns of fishes and nets (the sea was one of their Gods), partly
restored, partly original. The complex is impressively big, imagine that
hundreds of familymembers, advisors, servants lived there.
Their rooms and all the squares and
sanctuaries are still well visible (that is, the walls) as well as the typical
walls with fishnet like patterns (which also served as a kind of air
conditioning). Also the tumb of the King is
intact. The artefacts like gold, silver and copper arms, bracelets, shields etc
were mostly robbed by
huaqueros during the past few centuries. Due to heavy rainfall (el niño) and
erosion the other parts of Chan Chan are not really visible any more as a city.
Huanchaco and the city of Trujillo
Huanchaco beach with the typical Chimu originated ´caballitos´ (made of tortora as you can see in the middle) where you can go at sea like a canoo. Huanchaco made a good impression, with sure a lot of restaurants and hotels but not too noisily and busy. Good seafood, which I enjoyed with some nice people i met there.
Trujillo with its cathedral on the plaza
de armas, as well as a main street with the sharp and vivid coloured
colonial houses with the typical steal roomdecoration.
Hotel Libertadores at
night
Eulelia and Orlano with their parents
Very nice local marketpeople whom
I taught about Holland