(Another Pyramid-ish thing on another pre-Incan tour. More on that later.)
We arrived at Trujillo after a 5 hour bus ride that was supposed to be 2. 5 isn't tooooo bad, but it is nice to have accurate information when planning your liquid intake for the day. Having missed lunch, we headed out to find a huge meal. What we found was so much more...
Turns out Trujillo is extremely friendly. After being approached maybe 3 times in 10 minutes by people asking who we were and where we were from, a couple guys took it to the next level. They informed us that our vegetarian restaurant is no longer, and we were welcome to join them for burritos and a night of drinking. We have no pictures of any of this but we had a grand time.
After dinner, we hung out at a friends tattoo parlor and listened to the new All The Money tracks on myspace. (www.myspace.com/allthemoney) They made u some really sugary good drinks there before we met more of their friends at a bar. All of these guys seemed to be artists or musicians or both and had a million things to say about it. (The first two guys we met were in this band MetalInca. They play metal on traditional instruments.) There were some other tourists there whom they had found from Sweden and we lauughed the night away, drinking sugary drinks until 1.
We saw them the next morning, with our ridiculous hang overs and found out, they were there until 5 or 6.
I now have a wallet with this guys face on it. He is the god of decapitation.
On our 2nd full day in Trujillo, we went on another all day tour of ruins. These pictures are from the first place we went to, Huacas del Sol y la Luna. It was two giant pyramids, maybe 300 yards apart, one for the sun and one for the moon. Only one was open for tourists because they haven't really even begun to excavate the other.
The first picture is of the one we went in. From the top of it, you can see the other, as pictured above. The other was much bigger. The one we were on was 5 stories, each king added his own. In the middle there was where all the markets were.
They had a bunch of cool pictures of half animal gods. I think this was the octopus one.
Waves with a foxes head.
This one won't load right, argh! It is a recreation of a drawing. Slaves are bringing the blood of the sacrificed to the king to drink. They did a lot of sacrificing and beheadings do to that god on my wallet.
Each floor was built bigger than the one below it so even though the outside looks like a regular pyramid, the inside is inverted. We only got to see a few of the levels, lame-o.
The first Spiderman, truly a Marvel. OOOHHH!
The front entrance was covered in paintings. By the way, it is hilarious to hear the word paintings pronounced with a Spanish accent. It's like paingtings.
More from the front. This is the same culture and time period as the Tomb of Sipan, but each city had its own king.
Front again. They were doing excavations at the same time, so they had a lot of infrastructure up, like you can see.
Another one of those crazy Peruvian seal dogs.
I thought the dog houses were cute. Alaec y Llaipi.
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