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This is one of most beautiful cities in Peru. It is located in the fertile Santa Catalina Valley, in an oasis irrigated by the Moche River. The city preserves magnificent aristocratic mansions and many baroque-style temples from the Spanish era. The main tourist attractions are the nearby Chan Chan ruins. South of Trujillo lies the Moche pyramids of the Moon and the Sun, the tallest adobe structure in the Americas. |
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| ESSENCE OF THE AREA |
| Peru's north is much less visited than the south, even though it possesses some of the country's most outstanding archaeological sites. Trujillo, Chiclayo, and Cajamarca ( a lovely small city in the highlands) are the main colonial towns of interest. Near Trujillo and Chiclayo are Chan Chan, Túcume, and Sipán, extraordinary adobe cities, pyramids, and royal tombs and treasures that predate the Incas. |
| RECOMMENDED STAY |
| You need 3 days / 2 nights to see the highlights of Chiclayo and Trujillo. Your programs start in Chiclayo and end in Trujillo. If archeology is your passion, we recommend you stay a couple of extra days to visit more sites of Moche culture, like El brujo and the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. From Chiclayo you can extend your stay. Continue to Cajamarca to visit the lost fortress of Kuelap. |
| RECOMMENDED SIGHTSEEING & ACTIVITIES |
| Hike the ruins and visit the museums |
| MUST SEE |
| Chiclayo: Huaca Rajada where the The Tomb of the Lord of Sipan was discovered. Today the Lord rests at the Museo Arqueologico Bruning. The museum, one of the best organized in Peru, is where you will see gold, copper and silver jewelry dating back to around 300 AD, which tell the story of power and rank. Tucume, an imposing site consisting of 26 mud-brick pyramids that served as the political and religious center of Lambayeque culture. Drive through the Atacama desert and arrive in Trujillo, where you will see colonial mansions surrounded in a pre-Inca atmosphere. Visit the Casssinelli museum, and Chan-Chan, once the capital of the Chimu Kingdom. An enormous important archaeological adobe site in the Moche Valley, El brujo.
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