Hotels near Capitan FAP Jose A Quinones Gonzales International Airport - CIX, Chiclayo

Chiclayo is a really frenetic but friendly place - it is not a tourist town for gringos! A little Spanish helps - we enjoyed going to the “witches market” where they sell traditional medicine of all types in the South west corner of the central market about 5 blocks from the plaza. The rest of the market is great fun too A narrow maze of goods - if you are claustrophobic don’t go! We went the next day to the Tombs of Sipan museum about 20 min away which was fascinating- our Hotel was kind enough to find us a driver to the Mancora area which was why we stopped in Chiclayo. Do not make a special trip here but If you are on your way north or south it is a good stop. Nice dinner at upscale cafe 900 restaurant and bar. Traffic is crazy in this town !

If you come to this region of the Peru, I recommend visiting the royal tumbes of sipan museum, but moreover, I highly recommmend visiting the actual tumbes, known as the Huaca Rajada of Chipan. This is where they found the majority of the ancient treasures and bodies of the former kings and elite in the tumbes and actually reconstructed what the tumbes looked like when they were first discovered by archeologists. It is incredible!

Chiclayo is a really cool city with fantastic bars, restaurants and coffee shops. By far the best food scene we encountered in Peru outside Lima (out of five cities). Our favourites were Misha Coffee Lab, Tostao Cafe, Cuatro Once, and Pizzeria Venecia. Definitely worth taking a 20-minute taxi to Lambayeque for the world-class Royal Tombs of Sipan Museum. Uber is cheap and easy, and the airport is very efficient with a great range of domestic flights.

Archeological wonders over 2000 years old! Several excellent museums and on-site excavations, with good guides. Desert heat, climate damage of storms affecting sites. Mechan Tours service made our trip the best.

Honestly chicalyo is a perfect place to get away and have fun and drink and go to the beach, you will at first be shocked by the difference in how everything is that being the roads the food the people the culture but honestly everyone is so friendly and amazing and the food is absolutely perfect, the drinks are amazing. Everything is very cheap so it’s easy to spend 2000 dollars in 2 months. The only downside is it’s hot haha

Nice place to visi, Nice people, Humble and very accomadating. GREAT food, Chivito, Cebechi and aAoz can Pato are there speciality. Hreat places to visit, Muaeum and, Tombs od Supan are 5 minute walk worth a day.