Chiclayo
Chiclayo's plaza and the Santa Maria cathedral, 1869-1939.
On the same plaza, a department store (the former Royal Hotel) and the city hall.
Avenida Jos Balta, named for one of Peru's soldier-presidents.
A few long miles west of town, the Chotuna pyramid.
Easy to climb, thanks to a wraparound ramp.
From the top there's a view of the smaller Huaca Gloria, with a recent shed to protect a courtyard.
The protection is there for the images on the courtyard walls.
Some are clear.
Others are more cryptic.
Experts identify the image as a corrupted form of a two-headed serpent.
Twenty miles north of town is the large site of Tucume.
It includes the Huaca las Balsas.
The shed covers these remains.
What's to protect? These carvings.
Or these.
See the triangular sail on a mast fixed to a raft? Two sailors hold onto two divers.
20 miles east of Chiclayo, the Huaca Rajada is the site of the royal tombs of Sipan.
Can't get closer.
But the tombs are on an adjoining mound, which is accessible.
The contents of the tombs are now largely in a very popular museum in Cliclayo.
Closeup.