Trujillo 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. 

One of few bigger cities in Peru- mostly poor city with a lot of slums. Nice to see is mercado Gamarra- market with mostly everything to eat- fruits, animals (goat heads), vegetables. Big and good to see.
In Trujillo you can eat cuyes- seapigs (those little animals that we just to have as a home mascote). You can buy leather shoes of highest quality for very cheap price (about 90soles). The city is like Lima quite cold so take some hot clothes.

  A few kilometers at the North from Trujillo, there is a pretty seaside town called Huancayo. Pacific Ocean, bars, discos, youth hostels, a great mirador, and plenty of artisans ...     what do you need else ???