Tours office

Typical old colonial window fron Trujillo, this is a tours office when people receibe information

to travel to another peruvian cities or countries.

Some of trekking

Some days ago, my friends and I go to Poroto (45 min from Trujillo), a friend of us live in this town and he told us about caves with bones inside. We walked just one hour and half for a hill, we can see a beautiful see of the valley and of course some bones of the Gallinazo Culture, I guess.

469 years old

Señora de Cao

Magdalena de Cao celebrated 469 years old of creation, it's a little town, and it has a lot of history and traditions.

Marinera Caballos de Paso

Casa de Artesanos Cao Viejo

Today was opened a handcraft store named Cao Viejo in Magdalena deCao, here you can find handfraft of wood, stone, ceramics, cotton, gourds ...

Some famous people was invited for this event, like Fabiola de la Cuba, a peruvian singer, and Regulo Franco, discovered of the Lady of Cao.

Time was stopped

This old man was reading for many minutes in this street, near to an old window which time isn't so important... and me? well, I was waiting for my husband in the office in front of this street ^^.

Minchanzaman

Minchanzaman is a dancing group of the "Universidad Nacional de Trujillo", today is the aniversary of this institution, they celebrated dancing the most representative peruvian dances. Minchanzaman is 32 years old.

On the first pic, people is playing "cajon peruano" and "caja" (something like boxes), percussion from afroperuvian that is part of our history. Second pic, people is dancing marinera. A bonus video too... thanxs to the suggestion of Olivier :o)

Reflects

Sometimes wheater is crazy

What I always see

This is a detail of the house where I work :)

Lonely

...tired and bored to wait for.

Señora de Cao

Well, this is the "Señora de Cao" (Lady of Cao)... As part of the celebrations for 469 years old of Magdalena de Cao (the place where mummy of this lady was found), the Señora de Cao walked around the Main Square of Trujillo. But, today was a hard day, President of Peru visited the city without programming and some people wanted to protest for some problems, anyway, everything was great.

ready for tomorrow

It's comming the Party of Magdalena de Cao, home of the Señora de Cao, a mummy found recently.

Papa a la Huancaina

"Papa a la Huancaina" is a peruvian salad of boiled yellow potatoes in a spicy, starchy peanut sauce, called Huancaina sauce, thus the origin of the name. Huancaina sauce is made of fresh white cheesecrushed peanuts crushed saltines, vegetable oil, aji amarillo (yellow Peruvian pepper) evaporated milk, garlic and salt, mixed in a blender.

This dish is served with lettuce, black olives, white corn kernels, hard boiled egg quarters and tomatoes. It's very popular in all the country and can be served as a starter or "small dish.

Draft Flowers

Selling fresh flowers is the best, but it's interesting when you see draft flowers and plants painted in different colors.

one of seven wonder of the world :)

Machu Picchu!... some of cusco in past posts (1) (2) (3) (4)

If you come to Peru, you must go to Cusco, but don't forget to come to north of Peru too, specially to Trujillo :)

Red or blue

Since January, Trujillo have a new major, he likes blue!. This is part of the Municipality, you can see it was painted in blue just this side because people didn't want change red color, a colonial red.

Ray

First time I see two alive rays, this little girl was selling them for three soles (1USD aprox) each one. Thi scene wasn't so nice, It's always terrible to see animals near to the death.

and... St. Peter's Day #3

Finally, fishers in their "caballitos" sail with the boat where "St. Peter" is.

St. Peter's Day #2

Prossecion along to the beach finish in this big "caballito de totora", St. Peter statue was taken to this boat for sailing with the fishers.

St. Peter's Day #1

Today is St. Peter's Day and a special date for fishers on the peruvian coast. Huanchaco was the perfect place for this celebration, local fishers made one big "caballito de totora" which was taken by some soldiers while fishers took St. Peter Statue on prossecion from the Huanchaco Church, they make this big boat just for this day, every year. People was waiting for "St. Peter" two hours.

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.