Chan Chan and Sun and Moon Temples Full-Day Tour
From €54 per person
See availability →This Chan Chan and Sun and Moon Temples tour fills a day with Chimú and Moche ruins, two site museums and a lunch break in Huanchaco, with hotel pickup and a local guide.
A Chan Chan and Sun and Moon Temples tour brings together the Chimú and Moche cultures of the coast around Trujillo. A guide collects you at your hotel and the day runs for about eight hours, moving from Chimú adobe to Moche pyramids.
You start north of the city at Huaca Esmeralda, a modest yet meaningful Chimú site, then see the friezes of Huaca Arco Iris, also called Huaca Dragón. The Chan Chan Site Museum shows original objects from the Chimú Empire, and after it you enter the citadel itself for a full walk through this ancient city.
- Huaca Esmeralda and Huaca Arco Iris, with their carved friezes
- Chan Chan and its site museum
- Huanchaco, with free time for lunch
- Huacas de Moche museum, with Moche ceramics and textiles
- Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna, the Moche religious complex
Transport, the guide and the hotel pickup are included. Lunch, entrance tickets and extra transfers are not. It suits history lovers; mobility impairments, wheelchair use, altitude sickness and recent surgery are reasons to choose another tour. You are back in Trujillo in the evening.