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Suggested Packages
/ Amazon / Cusco / Lima
/ Lake Titicaca / Arequipa
/ Nazca
Trujillo & Chiclayo / Chachapoyas / Trekking
/ Multisport / Rafting
/ Biking
An area of great and diverse interest: elegant Spanish
cities like Trujillo and former Indian settlements transformed into quaint
towns like Cajamarca, Chiclayo and Piura. Monumental ruins of highly-skilled
pre-Inca cultures; CHAN CHAN, KUELAP and a region poised for major
tourist development; SIPAN, BATAN GRANDE, HUACA EL BRUJO AND MORO.
There are mountain villages with local customs and on the coast, deep-sea
fishing, surfing, and the CABALLITOS DE TOTOTO reed rafts at HUANCHACO.
TRUJILLO
The traveler entering Trujillo is delighted with its surrounding greenness
against a backcloth of brown Andean foothills and peaks. Founded by
Francisco Pizarro in 1536 (and named after his native town in Spain),
it still retains many old churches, graceful colonial balconies and
windows overhanging its modern pavements of homes built during the reigns
of the Viceroys. Besides the Cathedral it has 10 colonial churches as
well as convents and monasteries, Trujillo it is also a base to visit
Chan Chan, Huaca Arco Iris, Huanchaco, Sican and El Brujo.
CHAN CHAN, HUANCHACO
5km from Trujillo is the imperial city of the CHIMU - the largest adobe
city in the world. The ruins consist of nine great compounds built
by CHIMU kings. The nine meter high perimeter walls surrounded sacred
enclosures with usually one narrow entrance. Inside, serried rows
of storerooms contained the agricultural wealth of the kingdom, which
stretched 1000km along the coast from near Guayaquil to Paramonga. Huanchaco
is a fishing village and it is worth seeing the narrow pointed fishing
rafts, known as Caballitos (little horses), made of Totora reeds and used
in many places along the Peruvian coast.
CHICLAYO
Was founded in 1560 as a rural Indian village now has a population over
280,000. Chiclayo has a distinctive cuisine and musical tradition (Marinera,
Tondero and afro-Indian rhythms), has a beautiful neoclasical Cathedral
and a daily market (one of the northern Peru's liveliest) . It is the
base to visit Sipan,Pampagrande, Tucume, Bruning Museum and many interesting
sites.
Chiclayo can also be the starting point for a visit to the fabulous unexcavated areas os Chachapoyas, home of the "Warriors of the Couds".
SIPAN AND BRUNING MUSEUM
A short distance from Chiclayo rises the imposing complex of Sipan (a
Moche word meaning House of the Moon), where excavations since 1987 have
brought to light a cache of funerary objects considered to rank among
the finest examples of precolumbian art. In the most extravagant Moche
tomb discovered (1800 years old), El Senor de Sipan, a priest was found
clad in gold; ear ornaments, breast plate, etc. with turquoise and other
valuables. A visit to Bruning Museum in Lambayeque is also included. Specializing
in Mochica, Lambayeque, Chimu and Vicus cultures, it has a fine collection
of Sipan and Lambayeque gold.
TUCUME
About 45km north of Chiclayo lies the archaeological site of TUCUME,
ruins of a vast city built over 1000 years ago. A short climb to MIRADOR
permits to see an unparellelled panoramic view of 26 major pyramids,
platform mounds, walled citadels and residential compounds flanking a
ceremonial center and ancient cemeteries.
For more info see Introduction
to the Archaeology of the North of Peru
Notes:
- Royal Tombs of Sipan museum is closed on Monday.
Day 1 Lima - Chiclayo
Upon
arrival, transfer to your hotel. Visit the Tomb of the Lord of Sipan.
Between 1987 and 1988 the tomb was discovered by the Peruvian archaeologist,
Dr. Walter Alva, and he is still in charge of its protection and study.
There he found the intact remains of a dignatary, or Lord, of the hierarchy
belonging to the Moche Culture. Lunch at local restaurant. Afternoon visit
the Royal Tombs of Sipan Museum and the Valley of 26 pyramids of Tucume.
One of Peru's newest museum the Royal Tombs of Sipan opened in November
2002 to display one of the world's greatest exhibits of historical treasures.
The ancient Peruvian ruler The Lord of Sipan has been described as the
'Tutankhamen of the Americas' due to the splendor of the artifacts included
in his tomb. Archeologist Walter Alva discovered the Lord of Sipan in
1987 and until now the remains of the ruler of the Moche civilization,
and ornate pieces including earrings, headpieces and armor made of gold,
silver copper and clay from his and other tombs, have only been seen in
temporary shows but never in a permanent site. The new Royal Tombs of
Sipan Museum in the northern town of Lambayeque is shaped like a Moche
pyramid with fiberglass bricks resembling the original site and no windows,
to protect its 1,500 precious pieces from damage.
Day 2 Chiclayo - Trujillo
Breakfast
at the hotel. Transfer to Trujillo ( 3.5 hours ). On the way you will
visit the archaeological site El Brujo. This important Mochica Complex
has an area of 2 square kilometers. The discoveries include reliefs that
represent scenes of the magical and religious world of the Mochicas.
Pm. Visit Chan Chan. The well planned metropolis of Chan Chan, the ancient
capital of the Chimu Empire, was built entirely of mud and adobe bricks.
A stop is made at Huaca Dragon ( 4 kilometers north of Trujillo ) to visit
this restored, pyramidal, adobe temple consecrated to the rainbow, with
beautiful base reliefs and a small archaeological museum. Finally visit
Huanchaco, it is a picturesque fishing cove where one can find the ancient
craft that appeared on Mochica pottery and on friezes at Chan Chan: the
caballitos de totora, rafts woven from the totora reed in an art that
has been handed down over generations.
Day 3 Trujillo - Lima
Breakfast at the hotel. Visit the city founded in 1534 where you will
see a Cathedral from 1647 and beautiful colonial houses with their typical
balconies and patios. After touring the city, we will visit the Casinelli
Museum, that exhibits valuable artifacts ( unique of their kind ) of different
northern civilizations such as Recuay, Chavin, Moche, Chimu.
Pm. Transfer to the airport.
2010 Price per person in US$:
| Hotel |
1 person
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2 people
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3 people
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4 people
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5 people
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| economy |
$978
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$563
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$498
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$418
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$386
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| first |
$1012
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$588
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$523
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$443
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$411
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| deluxe |
$1067
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$602
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$537
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$457
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$425
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Day 1 - arrive Trujillo and transfer to hotel. In the afternoon, we'll head south of town to visit the Temples of the Sun and Moon, built by the Moche Culture in around 500 AD. These 130-foot-tall pyramids are thought to be the largest adobe structures in the Americas. The complex sits about three miles inland, southeast of the modern city of Trujillo and is considered by many scholars to be the former capital of the Moche State The complex is dominated by two huge adobe brick buildings: the Pyramid of the Sun, or Huaca del Sol, and the artificial platform called Huaca de la Luna, or Temple of the Moon. On the quarter-mile-wide, open plain between them, researchers have found many graves, most of them looted, as well as evidence of large scale manufacturing covered by a layer of sediment up to 10 feet thick. A considerable number of administrators, religious, and manufacturing specialists must have been living at this great prehispanic settlement. We return to Trujillo to spend the night.
Day 2 - breakfast, then full day tour to Chan Chan and Huanchaco - 5km from Trujillo is the imperial city of the CHIMU - the largest adobe city in the world. The ruins consist of nine great compounds built by CHIMU kings. The nine meter high perimeter walls surrounded sacred enclosures with usually one narrow entrance. Inside, serried rows of storerooms contained the agricultural wealth of the kingdom, which stretched 1000km along the coast from near Guayaquil to Paramonga. Huanchaco is a fishing village and it is worth seeing the narrow pointed fishing rafts, known as Caballitos (little horses), made of Totora reeds and used in many places along the Peruvian coast.
Day 3 - breakfast, then transfer to the airport
2010 Price per person in US$:
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1 person
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2 people (dbl)
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3 people (tpl)
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4 people (dbl)
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| Libertador |
$499
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$262
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$270
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$238
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| El Gran Marques |
$389
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$236
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$218
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$212
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| Los Conquistadores |
$355
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$206
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$192
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$182
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