Huanchaco is a beach town 15 minutes out of Trujillo. You want to be some minutes out of Trujillo. It is a big busy city. The fishermen in Huanchaco still use the traditional reed boats to fish from - IN THE OCEAN. I'm thinking garbageman, store owner, maid - anything but the open ocean in a reed boat.
There are ruins here that mostly fall under one city name Chan Chan . They are spread around the area a little. The largest site is the palace which has been reconstructed about 70% which means that what you see is not what they found, but what they found enhanced - usually by good science- but still altered and not just preserved as found. The rest of the local sites are largelely just preserved and not reconstructed.
There were 2 additional temple areas, a museum, and on the other side of town another ruin with a Temple of the Moon and Temple of the Sun that is a pretty cool ongoing dig that has been just excavated and preserved. It has a lot of color and is our kind of ruin. I forgot to mention that all of the sites are made from adobe bricks (mud). I think I mentioned that it doesn't rain much here. Can you imagine leaving mud bricks exposed in Washington? It would quickly be puddle of mud time.


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