Tours full Day Chan Chan

Full Day | Chan chan + Dragon Temple +Nikan Palace |

Depature : 09:00 am/3: 00 pm

Rainbow Temple

Today a nice day to explore a chimu temples around trujillo.
The Huaca del Dragon,also called Huaca del Arco Iris is an archeological site located in the Peruvian city of Trujillo, near Chan Chan. It is a large religious monument, administrative and ceremonial center. It is constructed of adobe, with murals decorated with friezes in relief showing human figures and representing a rainbow.
After this , we drive to chan chan city wich is our main part of the menu .

Chan Chan City

The city of Chan Chan spanned 20 km² and had a dense urban center of 6 km² which contained extravagant ciudadelas.
Ciudadelasor palaces were large architectural masterpieces which plazas, storerooms, and burial platforms for the royal chimu kings.[8 The splendor of these ciudadelas suggests their association with the royal class mostly build for death.
Also Houses for the midle classes of artisans whose role in the empire was to produce crafts, textiles, gold and silver pieces

Huanchaco local fishing village

According to Andrés Tinoco Rondan, an academic researcher at Ricardo Palma University, Huanchaco is the birthplace of the seafood dish ceviche.
In Huanchaco the ceviche is often served with the seaweed called mococho which is taken from the shores of Huanchaco.
Also Huanchaco is wellkown for its famous caballitos de totora means : ancient reed boats still used and preseved for daily fishing activities nowdays.