Huaca de la Luna - Trujillo Peru
Leaving Lima, our cruise next stopped at the port of Salaverry, just outside of Trujillo Peru. We had arrived at a true desert, with an average yearly rainfall of about 3mm. Salaverry is another active freight port, and the town has an active fishing industry. When I went out to our balcony to look around I noticed a lot of people and tuktuks on a nearby pier. At first I thought they had come out to look at the docking cruise ship. But further investigation showed that they were there to buy the haul from the local fishermen. The Amazing Ms D. enjoying the warm wather The Salaverry fishing fleet Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna The main attractions in Trujillo are the thousand- year -old temples from the Moche people. The Moche civilization existed in what is today Northern Peru from 100 AD – 800 AD. They were an agricultural society who existed in a desert by building a series of canals to bring water down from the Andes Plain. Many of ...