Trips to Peru

It was founded on 1534, like one of the main cities of the virreinato. The historical center translates this importance in its buildings. The Cathedral, the monastery the Carmen, the churches and the large houses conform an architectonic set that summarizes the beauty and the harmony of the city.

In the outskirts another architecture can be contemplated: the pre-Hispanic architecture that arises in the middle of the verdure of the fields or sands. The city of Chan Chan, the archaeological complex the Wizard and huacas of the Sun, the Moon and the Dragoon, among others, are samples of the refined northern cultures.

The neighboring beaches offer an exquisite gastronomy composed of seafood and fish just left the sea and possibilities for the nautical sports in contact with the tradition. Huanchaco is a beautiful spa and old town of fishermen, where it is possible to appreciate those old boats that already appeared in the mochicas ceramios and the scenery of Chan Chan. One is the “Ponies of Totora”, rafts made with this American rush that the fishermen maneuver with a unique skill, inherited of generation in generation.

The same skill is exhibited by the lovers of the Hawaiian table, who year after year meet in the port of Malabrigo, to realize a championship in the month of March. Here are the longest waves of the world.

• Altitude: 34 msnm

• Climate: Temperature annual average of 18° (maximum of 30° and minim of 16° C).

• Access: Terrestrial route accedes by the route Lima - Trujillo (561 km), using the North Pan-American highway, having therefore a trip of a duration of 8 hours approx in car. Aerial route, exists daily flights from Lima to the Trujillos who last 45 minutes approximately.

• Celebrations: Trujillo is land of the sailor. The trujillanos organize the National Contest of the Sailor in the month of January. In September all the streets and the houses are adorned, to be witnesses of the allegorical cars, the contests, the joy and the celebrations. It is the Festival the International of the Spring, in which the National contest of the Peruvian Horse of Step also takes place, (29 of September).

• Gastronomy: “Dry of cabrito with kidney beans”, “Shambar” (soup of wheat with pig meat and menestras), “Pepián of turkey hen” (stew of turkey with rice and maize), “Frejoles to the trujillana” (black kidney beans with sesame).