Lambayeque Travel Guide

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This huge building contains the treasures of the Sipan Tombs. He was a Mochica ruler, and inside one can see all the pottery, gold objects, and weapons founded in the Tombs of Sican. It´s a amazing visit, there are guides to show the three floors of the museum. Highly recommended. No pictures inside the museum.

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Also known as Casa Montjoy, it was built in the XVI century, and has the largest colonial balcony in Peru (67 mts long) and was declared a national monument in 1963. Now it contains some handicraft shops and art galleries.

This good museum once contained the Sipan treasures, but is also a very interesting visit, a great collection of archaelogical objects of the Chimu, Moche, Chavin and Vicus cultures.

Sadly, the ruins of Sipan were closed off due to a workers strike. However, the impressive Bruning Archeological Museum at Lambayeque (town 30 minutes from town) turned out to be even better. This museum contains the entire record of the Tomb of the Lord of Sipan as found in the site itself. As I marveled at the wealth of information available in this museum, I recalled a National Geographic special about Sipan that I had seen a few years ago.

Favorite thing: This sweet is made of milk. There are different King Kong with one (manjar blanco), two (manjar blanco and piña) or three different tastes (manjar blanco, piña and membrillo). The colours of the packet is then red, blue or green.
The price is around 4-5 USD for a piece of 700 g (the big one). The taste is very special, and I think you will like it. You can keep it over a month without problem. After a time the milk sweet will begin to form sugar cristals, then it is as its best, I think personally. Perhaps you have eaten it before this happens.
Manjar blanco is also sold in other forms, try it.
King Kong you can also buy in Lima (for instance Miraflores, aside of Parque Kennedy, and also Local market San Luis in San Borja, Lima). But the assortment is bigger in Lambayeque and it is absolutely fresh.

Favorite thing: If you buy a King Kong of San Roque, you can read the history of this famous sweet on the box.
I eat it up and throw away the box, but what I remember was that there was a sweet bakery that started to make sweets to collect money to charity. One of these sweets met an enormous demand, it was called King Kong as a the famous movie at the same time, which also tells us that the sweet is big. The street where the fabrication started had the name "San Roque", so this trade-mark claims it is the original one. I have always been used to the Lampayec type, but they are very good both of them. Another trade-mark is Castellana, a bit different in taste.
Note the way you shall cut the King Kong. Thanks San Roque for that tip!
(the San Roque on the picture is a small one, only half a kilo, the real one is one kilo)