Good morning from a little small town north of Peru called Trujillo. It's
actually not small it's actually the third largest cities in Peru eight
hundred and thirty thousand people I think that's what I read the funny thing
is that we just learned the fact that northern Peru only receives about 10% of
international visitors per year we're the only non spanish-speaking
people in true you today we are staying at a place called do a hotel d ue hotel
which is actually pretty nice it looks pretty new because a little bit of
construction going on there but the room is fairly decent so this is like a sea
level so the breathing is so much easier compared to cusco we are ten meters
above sea level instead of four thousand today we're gonna do a day trip just
slightly outside to do three different sites today one is the most famous one
which is the Ton Ton the UNESCO protected site they have construction
here all the time and number two we're gonna visit a temple dedicated to the
moon and the Sun and number three we can end up the tour in the small fishing
village about an hour away from throwing yo so we have an eight-hour day booked
on fire for we'll put the link to the tour that we are doing today in our
description and if it is really really good then you can just go ahead and
click on it and look at yourself or all of you who are coming to to do so maybe
for the first stop and I think this is the Bacchus the mochi we say what does
the mochi and into temples temple of the moon and temple Sun but from what I
understand temple of the Sun actually close nobody can visit it this is
supposed to be the pre inca culture of mochi I think we're gonna learn more
about it for sure well we are done with the museum visit it's very quick and
unfortunately you can't really take photos or videos and they're really
really strict about it
never hurt and this culture before but I definitely had a lot of respect after
seeing what they have their great Potteries and everything is fascinating
in terms of the stories and what they did back in your 600 I think yeah your
600 that's crazy now we are going to the temple of the moon one of the things
that you'll notice while you're here is that everything is mud brick and the
archaeologists have enclosed everything so they built these ceilings over
everything because apparently although it doesn't rain here a lot when it does
rain it can get quite heavy which will destroy this mud brick eventually so
they are doing their best to cover as much of it as possible so that it
doesn't get ruined this where you see these grey rocks behind us is the area
where they sacrifice people so a priestess would sit I believe down she
would cut the throat of the prisoner then she would cut that in the cup give
that cup to the priest and the priest drinking or something so there's a lot
of ritual sacrifice happening and back in about 600 AD I think
yeah and they took one picture of it and you can see it right here this is the
only picture that they took of it because it's the only skeleton that was
intact all the other ones were dismembered that's crazy it's kind of
super interesting to see all this stuff because we're used to seeing all the
Inca things and this is the this is the mochi mochi culture became the chimú
culture eventually chimú yep conquered by the Incas is about 200 years before
yesterday I think a few hundred years here all the walls that we've seen here
or original they just brush it off our original mud brick yeah it's cold
mud-brick yeah right behind me is a mural that archaeologists think is
either a calendar of some sort or a wall of mythology and you can see certain
things on it like the blue dog over here that's the hairless peruvian dog that we
often see in the streets hi my buddy there is a queen down at the
bottom who I kind of missed the interpretation of but it's really really
cool look behind me this walls of different levels see the prisoners at
the bottom with their next hide the next level up our musicians and several
levels up you see the Warriors and the snakes and everything but we are
actually inside the temple the temple what is built for it's still pretty
well-preserved I would say you can see all the paintings and you can see the
original stairs that wasn't original so we're pretty high up here now and this
is actually the fourth of five temples let me explain that a little bit so this
used to be one small temple then they covered it up and made it bigger and
wider then made it bigger and wider made it bigger and wider and finally number
five so it was the biggest and widest temple ever this altar here is temple
number four because when the Spanish conquered this land they totally
destroyed the fifth level so the fifth level is gone and what's exposed here
right now is the fourth level and you can see some of the paintings that are
still left over sort of peeling off now but some of them are over here and look
like little Atari games the most God always can depict it at like angry mad
looking face God so you can see all of this demonic face what we're going next
is gonna be some wall that has some happy faces in it
happy God happy gods and of course no matter where you go on the planet and
find an ancient temple you'll always find some dumbass who's
totally willing to carve their name in it obviously we've been exploring the
temple of the moon right behind me here is a temple of the Sun and unfortunately
during the Spanish era they came in to dismantle this temple completely raid
all the gold and everything else and they destroyed this temple otherwise
this actually considered to be the largest pyramid in South America but
right now it's closed because they're archaeologists still working on the
temple of the moon so the Sun is still pretty much covered so there's a lot of
questions and a lot of answers right they are still buried under the sand and
it's finding incredible that all this mud hasn't melted away with rains I mean
I know they got it all covered up and everything but even still there's a lot
of if it's not another temple no doubt
our second stop today is here at the rainbow temple it's actually part of the
chan chan complex here in trujillo but it's cut off a little bit from the rest
of the complex because Trujillo's downtown grew so much that it kind of
crowded out for those who are not familiar with the rainbow temple and i
would imagine that's most people if you look on the back of the twenty so les
bill that's the rainbow temple de you'll see there so now we're going to go ahead
over here and see some of the designs
so earlier today we went to the first site that was completely the most chez
culture and then they decided to just abandon their culture altogether and
somehow they came to this area and become the chimú culture team will be
both worship the moon and we have this amazing rainbow temple as testament
we're done yeah and I can believe it's actually pretty well-preserved
especially the inside of the temple which is still very preserved we finally
made it to the main part of tun tun it's a UNESCO protected site used to be
a mega Empire City and then now it's kind of engulfed within the modern city
of Tokyo so it just seems like you just drive through like all these
neighborhoods and then you also then come back to ancient ruins so mega
Empire City consider all of these actually made out of mud so impressive
to find that they're still really well preserved
so when UNESCO decided this is gonna be the World Heritage Site they put tension
in one of the most endangered sites for UNESCO site once it's rain this is gonna
pour in destroyer
this place is amazingly detail and all this crisscross holes said to be
representing fishing net so love fishing was a big thing here in Cebu times which
arranged about 800 to 1400 after Christ it's amazing
the colors gone but the details still there
so after a day of studying the history of Trujillo we get dropped off in the
most touristy area of town where they're surfing and so we a bunch of tourist
stuff used to be a sleepy fishing village is called a1 Chucho yes in my
face yeah and it's supposed to be good for surfing about an hour away but how
do you think of today oh I really enjoyed today this just doesn't seem to
be the place you'd want to be dropped off but it's fine we're going back to
the centre account after anyways and it's amazing how less travel Tokyo in
this area is oh yes we barely see anybody else it's like now that we're in
this tourist area they're so happy to see us
yeah this is crazy but it's a great day and it's always kind of great like this
I guess what I understand through Hyo we had a nice sunny day now yeah well that
is it for us from Trujillo we came to see what we saw and that's it so if you
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for after Hyo
so nice to be in a temple and be able to breathe it's the last surviving Moshe
person apparently