VICHAMA
From the same Lima Norte terminal you can reach Huacho by bus or colectivo and then Vegueta in a second colectivo. On the way, the vehicle can drop you at the entrance of Vichama. Vichama is located about 1 hour before Caral by car.
Located at Km 146 of the Panamericana Norte, Vichama is an agro-pescatarian city on the Pacific Ocean. On the site there are two small round squares like amphitheaters and a labyrinthine main building with adobe walls at man's height.
The most expressive bas-reliefs along the walls, made 3,800 years ago, are found here. There is a frieze with reliefs of dancing children holding their ribs and a skull that depicts the famine that these civilizations went through. Above it is the head of a toad, with its two legs firmly planted on the ground, and a small canal that symbolizes the return of water. More recently, another wall has been uncovered with human faces and a kind of feeding mouth from which five roots spring. The whole is very well preserved and is a powerful testimony to this civilization that was confronted with climate change and its upheavals.
It is also here that three statuettes were found in 2015, the photo of which made the rounds of the world. One of them is a priestess or shaman whose breasts and sex are exposed. The other two are members of high society. Their age is consistent with that of the site and reaffirms the power of women in these societies.
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