We just returned from an all day van tour to 2 archeological sites and 2 museums. Before heading out on a tour, we took a nice walk this morning and enjoyed the main square.
The focus of the tour was Sipan culture sites. These are more of the adobe brick (mud) ruins. The first museum was very small and the only museum I have ever been to with cartoon depictions showing timelines. I guess maybe they get a lot of school tours there. Of course there were two hairless dogs there to greet us…Pam counldn’t help but pet one.The ruin located by the museum has the longest temple in South America – although, like I said, the ruin is of adobe and there isn’t much form left. There was a nice little hill to climb so we went up for the big view.
After the first site we went on to a really nice museum with tons of artifacts from the last site we would visit during the tour. There was lots of gold, silver and copper work plus a ton of ceramics dating back to 1700 years ago. Most of the material is from tombs where the Senor Sipan’s tomb was found. They even had a little Disneyland in the show with a mannequin sing and dance that was silly, but strangely well done.
The last stop was at the tomb site where they have recreations of the tombs. It is an ongoing dig, but they lack the funds to do much digging so work progresses slowly. There were also some owls hanging out in the trees there, as well as a skeleton they discovered a week and a half ago that isn’t ready to move yet.
Tomorrow we’re looking forward to a border crossing into Ecuador so it will likely be late tomorrow night when we get settled!
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