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Ferreñafe is just 20min from Chiclayo. We woke up early and went to the main square, where we met the rest of the group and our guide. He didn't speak English, so I became a translator ;) We saw the Santa Lucia’s Church, the main one in Ferreñafe, but the main attraction was the “Museo Nacional de Sican” (National Museum of Sican). Sican means Moon’s house in an ancient native language. Here you can find all the rests of the Sican culture, including tools, jewelry, mummies, etc. He...

Accompanying the site at Sipan are two museums located at a small (I´m sorry that all places are reduced to simply descriptions of ´small´or´large´but it really is quite difficult to gauge the sizes of these places) town outside Chiclayo called Lambayeque.  The first I visited had many of the artifacts recovered from the site at Sipan, and was housed in a surprisingly modern pyramid-shaped building that led you through the tombs as they had been discovered.  Recommended (for a ...