- Book tours and tickets to experience Temples of Moche (Huacas del Sol y de la Luna). Reserve a ticket for your trip to Trujillo today.
- We enter the Huaca de la Luna to enjoy the best in reliefs and original friezes made of clay that keep their colors intact.
- Along with the Huaca del Sol, the Huaca de la Luna is part of Huacas de Moche, which is the remains of an ancient Moche capital city called Cerro Blanco.
- Though today the Huaca de la Luna is colored the soft brown of its adobe brickwork, just after its construction it would have been an impressive site to behold.
- The most notable monuments of the Moche culture are the Huaca del Sol and the Huaca de la Luna located in the Moche valley.
- The complex includes the Huaca del Sol area and the Huaca de la Luna area with a large expanse in between where tens of thousands of people once lived.
- Temples in the Huaca de la Luna were superimposed over each other over different periods of Moche civilisation, in this way the pyramid continued to grow.
- Huaca de la Luna ("Temple/Shrine of the Moon") is a large adobe brick structure built mainly by the Moche people of northern Peru.
- Though Huaca del Sol is the larger of the two, Huaca de la Luna is better preserved—and filled with famed friezes depicting the culture’s rites and mythology.