Black Knight's Cycling Adventures: Motupe to Lambayeque

As is becoming the normal routine when we’re camping, tents were disassembled, breakfast utensils washed up and put away and trucks loaded so that we could head off in a timely fashion towards our destination.

This morning just after eight o’clock, we headed back down the dusty goat trail and onto the main road which was to lead us to tonight’s destination - Lambayeque. Being a pan flat road, it didn’t take long to cover the 75KM till we reached the outskirts of the town. It took myself and a couple of colleagues, Carmen & Julia another half hour or so to locate our hotel, the route instructions being wrong, but even still we were all billeted away by midday.

This left us with the afternoon to explore the town, initially to see what we could procure for lunch but also with the view to seeing what the town had to offer in the way of touristic sights.

During our foray we came across the Bruning Museum and as a result after lunch the two girls and I subsequently paid a visit.

Essentially the museum is based around a collection of local Lambayeque, Moche, Chavín, Vicús & Incan archaeological & cultural artefacts, ostensibly put together by a German researcher, Hans Heinrich Brüning during the end of the 19th century & early decades of the 20th century though it is continually being enriched by pieces obtained via donations and recent discoveries. There’s hundreds of gold pieces, a number of textile pieces (I don’t know how some of those have managed to survive the passage of time) along with a number of dioramas which helped provide a bit of context & information about how the Inca’s had lived.

We then took a bit of a wander around town, including to the local market, there’s something fascinating / remarkable about the way these markets work, and unfortunately it was only on our way back to the hotel that we walked past the National Museum of Tombs which by this stage had closed its doors for the evening.