Today’s early morning was dedicated to errands at an upscale mall in suburban Trujillo: Banking, replacing toiletries, maps & books, new jeans, haircut, cappuccino & car wash. Toto, the mall’s anchor supermarket is almost on par with Gelson’s. The produce was stupendous – 8 types of potatoes! I got my haircut at an edgy mall salon. Everybody wore black and they played Peruvian rap.
Chan Chan was the capital city of the Moche people 1 AD-700 AC and successors to 1470. Their area went from nearly the Ecuadorian border to Lima with a population of a million inhabitants (over 25,000 in Chan Chan proper X-suburbs). The site is several square kilometers – “cuidad de adobe mas grande del mundo”. Trujillo is its modern successor. Unfortunately, the structures were built of mud brick. Centuries of rain erosion left it looking like a vast desert graveyard. What remained was moving and eerie.
We drove the Malacon of our little town looking for beach side comedor for lunch. We had typical beach side stall food: ceviche mixto, cabrito with rice & beans & a vegetarian combo. It is healthier than the beach side hamburger stands in Santa Monica. Carol is fulfilling her chil
i deficiency with aji.
Although there are more mud brick Moche, et. al. sites nearby, we decided to move on tomorrow toward the Cordillera Blanca area. On the road to the Andes again!
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