Chan Chan and Huacas

Temple of the Sun (Moche)	Made of 140 million mud bricks - 600AD	Temple of the Moon	Huaca de la Luna
Personalised mud brick	Each family supplied their quota (tax)	Preserving and restoring ancient walls	Polychrome friezes
High relief friezes	Colours still remain	Scary face	Had been protected by higher levels
Being revealed by archaeologists	Colourful friezes	Original art	Reproduced in the National Museum
Seven levels high	Many sites still buried	Main entrance ramp	Artist's impression of what it looked like
Huaca Arco Iris (Rainbow Temple)	Dancing Man on drugs?	One of the best preserved Chimu temples	Storage spaces?
All made of mud	La Huaca Esmeralda	Chimu building 1300AD	Chan Chan museum
Chan Chan is gianormuous	Huge ceremonial plaza	Decorated walls	Fish motif
High priestess Jackie	Jackie and friend	Many crumbling walls	Administrative area
Fresh water well	Chan Chan covers 14 sqkm	It had 10,000 buildings	Local transport in Tumbes
Third haircut in SA	Wrought iron grill work	Pretty windows in Trujillo	Plaza de Armas, Trujillo
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