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Dear family and friends, greetings from Trujilo! We pulled in here a couple days ago and have really been having a great time here. After leaving Nazca, we continued on to Lima (capital of Peru), where we stayed for a night and then continued on here to Trujilo where we have since been for two nights.

Our first day full day here (yesterday), we went our early to buy our bus tickets for heading up to Piura, which is on the way to Ecuador where we will be leaving to go to tonight. After securing our bus tickets, we left to head out to the Indian capital city of Chan Chan, which is a city near the Pacific Ocean that is completely built out of mud.

Upon seeking to get to the the museum, we began to look for modes of transportation. Taxi’s being too expensive, were obviously off of the list, thus when a packed mini van pulled up, with 19 passengers plunged inside, we decided that it was our perfect opportunity. Shortly after this very cozy ride, we pulled up to the Chan Chan museum right as it was opening. After a quick visit inside, we bought our passes for visiting the local areas and found out that in order to actually see anything, we would have to leave the museum area and walk a 1/2 mile down the road to the actual entrance.

Upon getting to the entrance, we found that the actual city was quite a ways down the road and so we decided that maybe our usually means of transportation (walking) maybe just wasn’t going to cut it this time. Therefore, we proceeded to get a travel guide that took us around to all of the sites in the area for a pretty reasonable price. We were able to visit a total of the Temple of the Dragon, Temple of the Emerald, and actually city of Chan Chan, which really put into perspective how big the civilization actually was! After getting to see the city, we later went down to Huanchaco, which is a city right on the edge of the ocean and proceeded to walk the shores and found a nice little place to eat along the way.

Today was a little different, and allowed us a chance to head out and do a little more exploring as we made it to Huaca de Sol e a Lua (Pyramid of the Sun and Moon). Upon arriving there, we were a little unimpressed, but as our guide took us up and into the Pyramid of the Moon, we were blown away by what we saw. Everything there has been preserved and conserved from the original and nothing has been reconstructed, so what you saw was what it was. They are also still in the process of excavating and have only excavated 50% of the Pyramid of the Moon and haven’t yet started on the Pyramid of the Sun. We walked past one room even that has been excavated in only the last year! Getting toward the top of the pyramid, you could look out and see the other one about 1 km away and in between was another excavation project where archeologists were currently uncovering a massive city (population 20,000) that had been buried by sand. There apparently are entire roads, houses, etc. that have been buried for the last thousands of years and the archeologists are just now beginning to uncover them. This made tour all the more exciting for Jon and I as we were able to see some of the archeology first hand, and realize that in only 5 years, the tour through the pyramids could be drastically different. There are certainly many parts of our world that are yet to be explored!  

This afternoon we are mostly just hanging around and packing up as we gear for heading to Ecuador in just a few days to see our friends there. We will be driving 7 hours to Piura and then about another 9 to Loja. Please continue to pray for us as we travel and that God will keep us safe along the way! God bless!

Nathan and Jon

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