the scale of the few sections of chan chan that’ve been excavate and restored is AMAZING— if they restored the whole thing, it would be a crazy mindfuck. even the two sections now are like 3km x 10km and mind-blowing…
trujillo, huaca de la luna: fragment of massive crazy tesselated bas reliefs…
like many pre-Cortes pyramids in México, the huaca was built in step-stages up-and-out with success rulers trying to out-awesome their predecessors.
huaca del sol seen from huaca de la luna. these peops sure could build a huaca! best huaca yet.
huaca excavation in progress. they didnt seem to mind our rampaging around poking our noses/feet/wangs in everything, though.
andrew scaling a sicán adobe pyramid (huaca) at batán grande
gutted train
and what’s an abandoned railroad pier without an abandoned railroad station full of ghost trains? a dicktease, that’s what.
the pier’s seen better days. also, the “picturesque” toratora boats people still use are, on closer inspection, just styrofoam wrapped in sandbags sewn into a toratora shell. not to be a stickler, but the tourist video on the fancy bus lied to me.
…wide open, spaces… (name that obscure and lame band from my obscure and lame college radio days and you win a prize!)
sondor: execution block for “invalids” (anyone unfit for war). throats were slit above/into that little square depression, with which they collected the blood and “READ it for malice” (?).
sondor: another valley
