Trujillo was an interesting town. We spent two evenings there (leaving on a night bus the second evening after dinner, to go to Huaraz). It’s setup very much like an old-school European city-state (with the main city inside a circular, protective wall, and the rest of the city outside the wall), and we stayed in the center of the city while we were there. It has some pretty colorful colonial-style architecture, and a large statue in the middle of the main plaza.
We learned two interesting things about Trujillo:
- There are a lot of street performers. When we were walking around town the first night, we ran into one performing a musical-robot-mime act. It was pretty funny, and some of the crowd got into the act, too!
- Trujillo has a lot of banks, and a lot of casinos. I don’t know why, but there are three huge casinos on one city block, and throughout the center of the city there are more casinos! It seems like most of the businesses in Trujillo are set up either to loan money to people, or to take it from them…
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I’ve heard a lot of great things about Trujillo, but wasn’t aware of the casino surplus. Do they really dominate the town and make it a sort of Las Vegas/Reno-ish spot? Is there a veneer of tackiness throughout the city due to them? Does the city draw gamblers from around the country? Trying to get an idea of whether the casinos are truly priority number one here, or if they just were especially salient to you…thanks.