19-08-2011
Spent the morning at the Chan Chan ruins. The area was occupied by the Chimu people, pre- Incas. Only one of the smaller complexes is open to the tourists and is quite impressive. A lot of replicas of the artwork has been made and placed in area to give the bigger picture. I enjoyed the next site more, the Temple of the moon as everything was as it had been. This was from an earlier set of people, the Moches. The decapitator was carved and painted on the walks all around. Every 100 years they covered it and built on top so on digging a lot of intact artwork has been discovered.
The rest of the day was spent in the gloomy beachside, no sun today. A lot of surfers around, must be so cold. Fishermen use reed boats that date to the 4th century . A lot of the day was wasted trying to sort out our Indian visas. The man at the other end wanted me to write bigger on a document and rescan it as his printer was printing it too small!
Sleep was horrible tonight due to blasting loud music from a club nearby which continued till 0430( we had to wake up at 0500). The weird thing was there were only 2-3 people there so it was not a very happening place.
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