huaca de la luna y del sol and museo huacas de moche
my last, but definitely not least post from my peruvian museum hopping! i am going to combine the huaca de la luna y del sol and the museo huacas de moche for the blog post since they are affiliated and very much interlinked. this is where we had our last bit of peruvian sightseeing up in trujillo.
stephen, my sister's new brother-in-law, highly recommended visiting the museum and the huaca.
the museum reminded me a lot of the museo larco, but this one was only focused on the moche people, which inhabited trujillo. the museum had all the spanish descriptions translated to english, which was great. the information was very engaging. we also enjoyed not being reliant on a guide and could move around the museum at our own pace. the moche people were one of the most sophisticated civilizations for the time period with sophisticated rituals, art and engineering.
Here is some of their pottery:
once we wrapped up in the museum, we drove around the corner to the two huacas. the huaca de la luna is the huaca that we saw. the huaca del sol is still being excavated and explored. when we make it back perhaps we will be able to visit this huaca in a few years. the huaca de la luna in my opinion was much elaborate than the huaca we saw in lima. they have been able to preserve a number of paintings and tiled walls. every hundred years or so, the moche would building another temple on top of what they had already built, which is pretty ingenious. the one problem is that now to reach the first temple, the historians would need to basically destroy the fifth, fourth, third and second temples. i also found out that most likely i would have enjoyed living in this civilization since they only sacrificed their best male warriors. so, as a female, i would have been "safe."
here are some pictures of the temple walls:
this was definitely my favorite sightseeing site in peru! i cannot wait to go back and see more of peru!
times visited the huaca: 1
times visited el museo: 1
total time on the site: 2 hrs
overall: A- for both the museum and the huaca
stephen, my sister's new brother-in-law, highly recommended visiting the museum and the huaca.
the museum reminded me a lot of the museo larco, but this one was only focused on the moche people, which inhabited trujillo. the museum had all the spanish descriptions translated to english, which was great. the information was very engaging. we also enjoyed not being reliant on a guide and could move around the museum at our own pace. the moche people were one of the most sophisticated civilizations for the time period with sophisticated rituals, art and engineering.
Here is some of their pottery:
once we wrapped up in the museum, we drove around the corner to the two huacas. the huaca de la luna is the huaca that we saw. the huaca del sol is still being excavated and explored. when we make it back perhaps we will be able to visit this huaca in a few years. the huaca de la luna in my opinion was much elaborate than the huaca we saw in lima. they have been able to preserve a number of paintings and tiled walls. every hundred years or so, the moche would building another temple on top of what they had already built, which is pretty ingenious. the one problem is that now to reach the first temple, the historians would need to basically destroy the fifth, fourth, third and second temples. i also found out that most likely i would have enjoyed living in this civilization since they only sacrificed their best male warriors. so, as a female, i would have been "safe."
here are some pictures of the temple walls:
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| wall tile from the fourth temple |
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| looking down into a lower temple |
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| some of the elaborate tiles |
times visited the huaca: 1
times visited el museo: 1
total time on the site: 2 hrs
overall: A- for both the museum and the huaca
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