Northern Coast Travel Guide

The town of Trujillo: Trujillo is a pretty city placed on the dry desert coast of Peru. In the center of the city close to "la plaza de armas",the city square, there are many colonial buildings. There are some dicoteques - personaly I've only been to La Barra once, really shortly, so I cannot tell much about the place. Whereas I've been to "El Mecano" several times. In "El Mecano" they play reggatón, salsa and latin pop and they have decorated the place in a nice formel one style. In the center there are several shopping centers with all kinds of cheap clothes, jewlleries of e.g. silver which is a lot cheaper than in the Western World, teddy bears, ect. Arqulogical cites outside the town. If you go on trips just outside Trujillo there are many beautiful arquelogical places to visit, especially the moon temple or, "la huaca de la luna" as it is called in Spanish, is an amazing ruin which maintains its coloured and figurative decorations. Chan Chan on the way to Trujillo's beach Huanchaco, is the largest Pre-Columbian city in Southamerica. It is very interesting, but hire a guide, because without the background history it might just seem like uninteresting  huge sand walls. Bring sunblock, because the sun is very strong and you easily get burned if you don't take care. Food: Personally I strongly recommend the homemade burgers of Trujillo. You can get them with all sorts of dressing and especially with a lot of chilly(called aji) they taste amazing; pineaple(piña), "papitas"(chrisps) and guacamole are also recommended along with traditional dressings as kechup and mayonnaise. Besides burgers taditional fish dishes as cebiche/ceviche, and all the dishes of "pescado frito", fried fish are great in Trujillo as it is near the ocean. Rice with chicken/duck,"arroz con pollo/pato" is also aleays nice as well as a stuffed potato, "papa relleno", or sticks with spiced cow heart,"anticucho". Take care: Many of these dishes can e bought in the street stalls and personally I really like the culture of eating in the street, but if you eat e.g. ceviche be carefull and eat a proper place with pices not below 5 nuevo soles. Do not eat in the stalls in the markeds if your stomach is not very used to peruvian food - even many peruvians say it is disgusting ind would never eat there. Take special care with pizza, as many people, my self inculded, have had food poisoning from pizza. 

Nice small city- very hot for almost whole year- the food is very very very cheap and tasty- ceviche, saltado, leche del tigre.... mmmm
No problem with money exchange- warning- it is very common to get fake money- check it very carefully. Few discos- not bad for this level of place. Cheap Taxi- (a lot of moto taxi).
People call lokal burdels- Chongo- you can be understood wrong if you say you want to go to restaurant- chongo is a place with prostitutes!!!
There is quite good situation with a transport- few companies have sleep buses- you go during the night, you get food. To go to Trujillo you pay about 150soles, to Lima (about 14hours) 240 soles.
In Piura the visit with doctor will cost almost allways 50 soles- not bad conditions.

Es sin duda la playa más conocida y visitada del Norte del Perú. El punto turístico por excelencia de esta parte del litoral peruano, y es porque Máncora ofrece casi todo lo necesario para pasarla bien : hermosas playas de arena blanca bañadas por cálidas aguas, muy buena comida, verano casi todo el año, diversión de día y noche, buenas condiciones para casi todos los deportes acuáticos, infraestructura hotelera para todos los bolsillos, etc.Máncora es uno de esos lugares que no se olvidan, que atrapan al que llega con una magia que definitivamente invita al regreso, gracias a experiencias inolvidables en todo sentido y se ha convertido en el lugar favorito de viajeros de toda laya y origen (nacionales y extranjeros) todo el año.