Up north

Where shall begin? The landscape north of Lima looks about the same as the one south of it. Desert! In between the sanddunes and the hostile rocks are agriculture fields which are intensively irrigated. Without that not much would grow.
The highlight so far since we departed Lima are the archeological sites around the town called Trujillo. There different sand-brick palaces, cities and temples are accumulated in a rather small area. There is the Cha-chan area from the Chemu people and two huge temple complexes from an even older civilization (before the Inca). There is an excavation site where archeologists have been digging for the last 20 years. There are five temples built on top of each other. Each dynasty had its own temple. However they did not destroy their predecessor's temple but filled it with sand-bricks, which are now being removed to make the nice and colourful paintings visible.
As Alice has written about everything that happend in this time, please read there.

cheerio!