Monday, April 30, 2007

To the School

People say the best schools are in Trujillo City... schools from towns around aren't so good for many many reasons. This girls live in Laredo and they go to some school from Trujillo, it's routine tired for chlidren specially , but most of them do this.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Photo to the Photographer

There're no many people on the beach, but this photographer walk searching kids to give him a smile...

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Lonely Fisher

Now, in Huanchaquito Beach... A few people go to the beach in autumm, but always, you can find fishers working during the day.

Friday, April 27, 2007

Pineapple

Last pics of Poroto... this town is very known for its warmy wheather, delicious food, and pinneaple!

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Line of color

Little detail on the road...

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Searching fruits

In Poroto again... Sometimes you can find fruits on the trees, this time I saw a lot of pinneaples and ciruelas (plums). A little girl was eating some of plums while her older sister was on the tree searching the best fruit for her.


Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Working

Last weekend, two friends and I walked for many hours in Poroto (40 min from Trujillo) just for job and for being outside of the city... we see many people working on the road, we see many kids helping to their parents.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Conache lake

Conache is a little town of Laredo (district of Trujillo), there is a lake here, a very quiet place, many families come to here for camping a weekend or just be here on sundays.
This lake is formed by an underground river, it's arounded by desert and farm lands, you can see many contrasts in Conache.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Huaca de la Luna

The "Huaca de la Luna" is an adobe brick temple built by the Moche civilization on the north coast of Peru, in Moche (a district of Trujillo). You can visit just for $4.

The huaca was decorated in registers of murals which were painted in black, bright red, sky blue, white, and yellow. The sun and weather has since faded these murals away, but other murals used in earlier phases of construction can still be seen inside the Huaca.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

More Mud

Mud is very used in north coast of Peru, since many centuries ago... last post "mud bricks" is a way, another is making different objects, practical and decorative, this is an ancient custom from Moche Culture. We know many things of Moche people for thier ceramics, where they show all of their lifes.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Mud bricks

In Moche, a district of Trujillo, some people rent farm spaces to use minerals and clay that contains and to make mud bricks called "adobes".

These two men produce 1000 bricks in one day. When they finish using the land, they will give back it to the farmer who no longer will be able to cultivate so easy because this one already lost its mineral wealth.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Plazuela El Recreo

This is a detail of a nice monument, which was in the middle of the main square, but it was taken to five blocks up, Pizarro Street, maybe it was little in comparisson to the actual monumment which was a gift from France Goverment.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Inside Old Office from UNT




This is the second part of the last post about the old office from University National of Trujillo (UNT)... some views inside. The first one is the room where Principal of th University meet with university authorities, the second one is the room for special and closer ceremonies, and the last one is a detail of the arches of the last post.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

UNT: Old Office

This is the main office of the National University from Trujillo (called UNT), this place is very special beause it's beautiful, colors are magic, its traditional architecture and it's an historical place. UNT was created by Simon Bolivar (1824), an hero for peruvian independence; the first students studied in this place which belong to Catholic Church.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Roots without roots

I don't know why people cut trees... I got sad when I saw this root from an old tree, a tree was almost 400 years old, maybe it was sick, I don't know, but in I've seen many cutted trees in last days.
Trees can be save the life someday... now, they do it but we can see it all the time.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Club Central

"Casa Iturregui" is an old colonial house built in XIX century... Now is "El Club Central", a place very "exclusive", you must be member to visit in. It's a beautiful house but it isn't open for all people from Trujillo, its schedules visit is to 7am to 10 am.


Sunday, April 08, 2007

Picarones


If you go back to Trujillo from Huanchaco beach, you'll find a place on the road where eat some typical food... These aren't donnouts but maybe they have a similar shape, these are called "picarones", which is a sweet, ring-shaped fritter with a pumpkin base; often served with a molasses syrup. Picarones are very popular and it's no easy to get this shape to cook them.

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Silence


All of churches are visited for many people, much of them stay inside for hours singing and praying... It´s common to see hide images of Christ and Saints.

Friday, April 06, 2007

Rest of dinosaurio

Rest of dinosaurio?... some craftsman made a dinosario with marine animal bones, it is a very peculiar adornment. The Fair of Craftsmen of Huanchaco always is very original.


Thursday, April 05, 2007

Live sculpture


There are many live sculptures in Trujillo downtown, most of them is related to our history and customs... This sculpture was transferred to the time of the slavery.


Monday, April 02, 2007

Reading

An interesting and long reading... this sculpture is in "Miraflores Cementery".

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Let it go!

Sunday... a quiet day, enjoying a nice day.