Clara the owner of the hotel I was staying at in Trujillo had been an archeologist who had done some of the first excavations at these two important sites. She was keen to take me so for a very small fee I had my own expert. I got a far more detailed interpretation of the Chimu and Moche cultures than I would if I gone alone

The lattice work is representing fishing nets. Everything is in groups of 4 as in four seasons, seven as in the colours of the rainbow.

The sea is straight lines when it is good to fish and waves when it is good to surf. The pelicans at the bottom of the picture were trained to fish for the community.

This is the Moche Huacas del sol it is called this because it is on the west side of the site . The Huacas de la Lune is on the east. Only the Huacas de la Lune has been excavated.

Everything here has its opposites. Good and evil, happy and sad. Put simply the Chief had a very nice fancy house where he did all sorts of horrible sacrifices. When he died the people buried him in a reed basket put him in his house and built another house on top. Eventually a big pyramid was built. It was explained in a lot more detail than that!