El Brujo Archaeological Complex Tour with Tickets
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See availability →An El Brujo archaeological complex tour from Trujillo with hotel pickup, a guide and entry tickets included, finishing with a tasting of chicha de jora in Magdalena de Cao.
The El Brujo archaeological complex tour leaves Trujillo for the Chicama Valley, about 33 kilometers north, and gives you the Mochica culture in a half-day trip of about four hours. Hotel pickup, a guide and the entry tickets are included.
Three monuments make up El Brujo: Huaca Cortada, Huaca Cao Viejo and Huaca Prieta. Excavations began in 1990 and uncovered Huaca Cao Viejo, which rises 46 meters, whose walls carry colored friezes and reliefs of elaborate scenes and geometric shapes. The Wiese Foundation, together with National Geographic, presented the discovery of the tomb of a woman and leader from the fourth century.
- Huaca Cao Viejo, with its painted walls
- Museum of Cao, home to the mummy of the Lady of Cao, about 1,700 years old and tattooed
- Magdalena de Cao, 5 kilometers from the complex
Inside the Museum of Cao you see ancient objects and the Lady of Cao, whose mummy has stayed well preserved thanks to an ancestral ritual. The last stop is the village of Magdalena de Cao, where you taste chicha de jora, a traditional drink fermented for one year by ancestral methods. Then the guide takes you back to Trujillo. Food, drinks and gratuities are not included.