Algarrobo

This is one of my favorite trees, it's an old algarrobo... unusual way to live, without water, alone and looking at the landscape so comfortably.

Colourful houses

Two dogs live in these colourful houses... they are guardians of the "Huacas del Sol y la Luna".

Shadows of the history

Historical paintings of ancient moche people. Besides a lot of rains, mud walls kept that colors and shapes for too much time.

Shadows

...walking in Moche.

Decapitator

Moche Culture has a figure called the Decapitator, mostly depicted as a spider, but also depicted as a winged creature or a sea monster all three features symbolizing land, water and air. We can see this figure in the "Huaca de la Luna", showing different expresions.

Some artisans use the Decapitator in many souveniers... but this time I saw its shape in a mirror, and I like it a lot, besides my eyes look rare but the mirror is nice :)

La Cultura Moche tiene una personaje llamado el Degollador , mayormente representado como una araña, pero también se le describe como una criatura alada o un monstruo marino con los tres elementos que simbolizan la tierra, el agua y el aire. Podemos ver esta figura en los frisos interiores de la "Huaca de la Luna", donde muestra diferentes expresiones.

Algunos artesanos usan al Degollador en los souvenirs... esta vez ví un espejo con su forma, me gustó mucho, y aunque mis ojos se vean raros, el espejo es lindo :)

Moche Ceramics

If you go to Moche (15 minutes from Trujillo City), you'll see peolpe sell ceramics and little artcraft, some of these ceramics is own of moche style, almost identical to ceramic found in "Huaca de la Luna". My prefer is this duck, "warrior duck"!, the original ceramic was found in the tumb of importat people.

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.