Walking Around Trujillo

A tree grows in Trujillo

Today was a "take it easy" day.  I am recovering from a bout of food poisoning, which is always fun and doubly fun when traveling in a foreign country.  So I didn't want to venture too far from hotel plumbing.  Fortunately, Trujillo is quite a photogenic city.

First stop:  La Basilica Catedral de Trujillo:

It was open.  Let's have a look-see, shall we?

Beautiful.

At the risk of sounding sacrilegious, I think this is a pope.  Because he is wearing a pope hat.  And if you find yourself in Basilica Catedral, anywhere in the world, and there's a statue of someone wearing a pope hat, chances are 100 percent that it is a pope.

And behind him is the main altar:

Let's move in for a closer look, shall we?

This next picture has that ethereal look we love in church photography.  This was supposed to be a photo looking down a corridor to the exterior:

Instead, we get:  "Come to the light."

And what happens when we come to the light?

We're in the Plaza de Armas.  Where, as we previously saw happening at night, it is a great place for a photo op:

Off to explore more of the city.

I saw a video about visiting Trujillo on the youtube.  And the person who narrated the video said there was a lot of traffic in Trujillo and all of it was taxi cabs.

As you can see from that photo, for example, es verdad.

This is the Iglesia San Agustin:

It was closed.  Let's move on:

Here is another church:

I don't know the name of that one, but I do know that this one is the Iglesia San Francisco:

And back to the Plaza de Armas:

Let's check to see if Iglesia San Agustin has re-opened.

It has!

And back to the Plaza de Armas, which is the center of town, so that's why I keep ending up here.

This is Iglesia Santo Domingo:

I would've gone inside to check out the interior -- it was open -- but the church was hosting a funeral and that would be have been quite rude.

The hearse was a Hyundai.

I never saw a Hyundai hearse before, and it looked interesting.  I don't think I was being disrespectful to the deceased taking a picture of his or her final ride, especially since the departed appeared still to be inside the church and not the Hyundai.

We will end our walking tour with this picture:
 

Maybe tomorrow I'll find out what building this is.