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.  

Back to the Temple of the Moon

The North Coast

We didn't expect to be in the north coast in a matter of weeks. We've been in the north coast for one full day and like it better than the South Coast. We're in a town called Huanchaco.   It's a surfing town, and very fun and very safe. Yesterday Macenna the café/restaurant and watch the the afternoon go by right into the sunset.  In the morning we went to some ruins called the temple of the sun and the temple of the moon.  They are too pyramid ruins that interestingly were built five times and they just built right over the top of the old ones.  They were found in the 90s by some students who were doing archaeological walk.  They sat down to rest and a piece of dirt that was covering one of the pyramids fell to the ground and revealed a painted wall from the pyramid.  They began digging and they have about a quarter of the pyramid unearthed. After the tour of the pyramids,  our driver Fausto,  drove us around Trujillo showing us some sites and then on to Big Ben where we then sat and watched the afternoon go by. These are the only pictures I have right now on my cell phone, more to come......