22nd Oct 17 - Salaverry, Peru
We awoke this morning to both a change of scenery and temperature. Salaverry, Peru is a desert town/region. Cold sea currents keep the rains away and the temperature had dropped to c60F
We visited the Dragon Temple and then the UNESCO World Heritage site of Chan
Chan - the largest clay city in pre-Hispanic America built in c900AD. Of course,
one of the problems in building a city out of clay is that it tends to be washed
away when it rains - which it does torrentially every 10 years or so.. You might
have read about the major mud slides in the region in the last year.
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| View from our suite. A very desert like landscape with fishing boats in the harbour |
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| Pelicans. Not sure if the boat will ever sail again! |
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| Dragon Temple |
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| Guide at the Dragon Temple explaining how this was a homage to water. |
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| Avenue of the llama at Chan Chan. A huge (and I mean gigantic) clay city arranged like a maze |
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| The city - with walls like this - stretched as far as the eye could see. |
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| The inner rooms of the palace |
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| The squirrel motifs caught my eye |
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| A Raven Vulture . |
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| Apparently these Peruvian hairless dogs are only found in this area. They need their T-shirts to keep from being sunburnt. |