Our lunch at Club Central and Trujillo

Elvira and her family treated Kerry and me to lunch and cocktails at Club Central in Trujillo.  Trujillo is a coastal town that is he second largest town in Peru.  Elvira, my secretary, grew up there and has fond memories of the club.  It was a very beautiful and fun time with the family.  They would fit right in with ours.  After our lunch, our driver Fausto gave us a tour of Trujillo.  We think it was every street in Trujillo because what took us twenty minutes to get there took us an hour and a half to return and it wasn't the traffic.  He even stopped to see if we wanted to go to someone's party that he knew.  Ultimately it was a great ride and we saw a lot of Trujillo.  We also found out that we might be able to acquire a three day pass at the Trujillo Golf Club and be members for three days.  That will be a future trip and post for 2014!!!!

Kerry and me in front of where we had many laughs, food and drinks.  

The formal dining room.

The gardens.

Elvira and with us.  

The whole crew!

See, they would fit right in with us...  

Las Señoritas. 

The courtyard.

The main shopping pedestrian street in Trujillo.

Main Square at dusk.

Very colonial.

Chan Chan Pictures

While we were in Huanchaco, we went to the very underwhelming Chan Chan.  It is a massive Ruin from the Moche empire but it is 80% reconstructed inside.  The Temple of the Sun and the Moon from the posts before were only 20% reconstructed so, to me, that was much more interesting and it was much more beautiful.  Along with the Chan Chan ruins, there were two other ruins that I don't think have been reconstructed at all right in the city of Trujillo.  Here are some of the pictures....

These ruins are over 2200 years old!  The archaeologists came and  put a protective coating on the sand to inhibit further erosion of the ruins.

The pelicans were a very important symbol to the Moche.

Fish were also a very important as they meant food for the people. 

This area was mainly a central storehouse for collected taxes of food, precious metals and other pottery and weavings.  

These were the offices for tax collection...  We think....

Bins for holding the taxes. 

El Jardín 

Moche man at the library.

Just like the old dioramas at the Milwaukee Public Museum.  The museum looks an awful lot like the Fairbanks History museum.

Pretty amazing museum....  : )

Who is that Moche in the back???

These are the ugliest dogs in the world.  The are actually bald and scabby. 

This is one of the other ruins in the middle of the city.  Look we can walk all over it....  

OSHA probably would not approve...

Another ugly dog...  

An Elf...

Huanchaco and The Temple of the Sun and Moon

 Last weekend Kerry and I risked our lives and took a bus to the Huanchaco on the north coast of Peru.  We rode through the night and arrived in Huanchaco early in the morning.  We were driven to a beach/surfing town and this is where we stayed in the Brocamonte hotel.  It was very nice.  We slept for a couple of hours and hen headed out or a short tour of the town and a tour of the Temple of the Sun and the moon.

 Here is a view of the city of Huanchaco

This is a colonial style church that is on a high hill over looking the town which is where I took the last picture. 

Here is a picture of the beach and the waves.  World wide surfing tournaments happen here because of the consistency and size of the waves here.  Next time we come, I surf!!

Another Surf City picture.

Statue of a Moche Native.  This is the native people that were in this area before the Incas.  I believe from 200 BC to about 600 AD.  I am sure my lovely wife will correct me though.  But it is something like that. 

This is the temple of the moon.  This temple was built and then hundreds of years later covered with adobe brick and a new temple built on top of it and this happened five times.  The great thing about it is that the paintings are preserved and everything is original or about 80% of it is.  

The museum.

These are the preserved paintings on the temple walls. 

This is the Temple of the Sun which is not as well uncovered because they ran out of money to uncover it.  

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