The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
In port at Salaverry (Trujillo), the bucket-list move is Chan Chan: Private Guided Tour of the World's Largest Adobe City. Centro Cultural Chan Chan, trujillo runs it. Below: 4 bucket-list things to do on a Salaverry (Trujillo) port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Step inside Chan Chan, the UNESCO-listed Chimú capital and the largest pre-Columbian city in South America — a vast labyrinth of royal citadels, ceremonial courts, and exquisitely carved adobe friezes. With a private expert guide, you decode 600 years of coastal empire at your own pace.
Book itFrom Salaverry Port: Chan Chan and Ceviche Experience$367 per person
Run by Centro Cultural Chan Chan, trujillo · 3.70 from 3 reviews
Descend into millennia of Moche civilisation at the Temples of the Sun and Moon — two towering adobe pyramids that conceal layer upon layer of extraordinary polychrome murals. A private archaeologist-led visit here is one of the most remarkable cultural experiences on South America's Pacific coast.
Book itWalking by Moche Pyramids Shore Excursion from Salaverry$90 per person
Run by huaca del sol y luna la libertd · 4.80 from 21 reviews
El Brujo is Peru's most electrifying active dig — here the tattooed, sacrificed 'Lady of Cao' rewrote history as evidence of South America's first known female ruler. A private expert-led visit to this remote coastal complex, far from tour buses, is as close to an Indiana Jones moment as travel gets.
Book itFrom Salaverry Port: El Brujo Complex & Huanchaco Day Tour$367 per person
Run by Archeological complex El Brujo · 4.70 from 2,000 reviews
Huanchaco is one of Peru's most beguiling fishing villages, where caballito de totora — reed sea-horses ridden by fishermen for 3,000 years — still launch into the surf at dawn. Combine a guided cultural walk with a long, lavish ceviche lunch at one of the village's celebrated seafront restaurants.
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Trujillo's Plaza de Armas is ringed by some of the finest colonial mansions in Peru — ocher, ochre-pink, and cobalt-blue facades hiding baroque altarpieces and Moorish-lace balconies. Add a private demonstration of the marinera norteña — Peru's most elegant national dance — and the city comes completely alive.
Book itTrujillo: Salaverry Shore Excursion full day$75 per person
Run by Plaza de Armas of Trujillo · 4.50 from 37,000 reviews
The towering sand dunes flanking Trujillo's desert coast offer a world-class sandboarding experience — equal parts thrill and surreal beauty. Strap a board to your feet and carve down 100-metre faces of golden sand with the Pacific glittering on the horizon: pure bucket-list adrenaline.
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