Today we caught a minibus into the scorching hot Peruvian desert to explore the ancient pre Incan Lambeyeque Pyramids of Túcume. The 26 giant mud brick pyramids can be viewed from atop a nearby hill and although they are deteriorating in the harsh conditions quite rapidly, they are still much more discernible than the ancient “Bosnian Pyramids” I explored on Day 106.
The view from the hill was really nice and gave a great view over the Pyramids, but unfortunately I stupidly didn’t check my camera settings correctly so ended up taking photos with the ISO set to 1000 (meaning the photos are terribly noisy, and look shite, therefore I decided not to use them for todays photo). The areas around the base of the Pyramids are also home to some cool burrowing owls, rainbow Iguanas and blue faced whip-tailed lizards which were all flying and scurrying about everywhere. We also watched a falcon swoop down, pick up a big lizard and then fight off 3 other birds from stealing it.
After exploring the Pyramids we jumped back in another minibus to nearby Lambayeque to see the Bruning and Tumbas Reales de Sipan archaeological Museums. They were both awesome museums with tonnes of artifacts from the area. This is the funeral mask of gold chimu which was found along with 1000’s of other un-looted gold artefacts and now on display at the Bruning Museum.
