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Embark on a captivating 3-day Trujillo City Tour and delve into the rich history and vibrant culture of this Peruvian gem. Begin your journey in the historic center of Trujillo, where you'll explore grand plazas, stunning architecture, and fascinating museums. Discover the city's renowned seafood, beaches, and surfing spots. On the second day, venture to the awe-inspiring Temples of the Sun and Moon, ancient pyramids built by the Moche Culture. Explore Chan Chan, the world's largest adobe city, and experience the traditional fishing village of Huanchaco. Conclude your adventure with a seamless transfer to the airport or bus station.

Day 1 - Explore Trujillo's historic center and colonial sites
Day 2 - Visit the Temples of the Sun and Moon, Chan Chan, and Huanchaco
Day 3 - Transfer to airport or bus station

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1: City tour Trujillo (pedestrian)
2: Trujillo - Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon-Huanchaco
3: Departure

1 City tour Trujillo (pedestrian)

First you explore in the historic center of the colonial city of Trujillo for its main plazas, grand architecture, cathedrals and museums. Besides nearby incredible colonial buildings and archaeology sites, due to its geographic location, Trujillo is also known for its seafood, nearby beaches and surfing. Trujillo is also known for quality leather goods (particularly shoes), woodcarvings and replicas of Precolombian ceramics.

2 Trujillo - Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon-Huanchaco

Breakfast, then we headsouth of town to visit theTemples 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. Then go toChan 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.