Things to do in Chiclayo
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Mercado Modelo
Make sure not to miss a visit to Mercado Modelo, one of Peru's most interesting markets. This place sprawls for several blocks and is a thick maze of fresh fruits and vegetables, woven goods, handicrafts, live animals, fish, meats and, most interestingly, the mercado de brujos (witch doctors' market) in the southwest corner.
This area is a one-stop shop for medicine men and has everything you might need for a potent brew: whale bones, amulets, snake skins, vials of indeterminate tonics, hallucinogenic cacti and piles of aromatic herbs. If you'd like to make contact with a brujo for a healing session, this is a good place to start, but be wary of sham shamans. It's best to…
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Restaurant Típico La Fiesta
A quality top-end choice, La Fiesta is in the Residencial 3 de Octubre suburb, about 2km west of central Chiclayo. If you want to experience the best of this region’s world-famous cuisine, Fiesta is the place to splurge. The pisco sours constructed tableside and elegant meat dishes, such as rack of lamb with risotto and sirloin with poached quail egg, are worth every nuevo sol. Or try the farm-raised duck, which must be a black-feathered quacker not a day over three months old. There is a sister restaurant in Lima.
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Restaurant Romana
This locally popular place serves a bunch of different dishes, all of them local favorites. If you’re feeling brave, try the chirimpico for breakfast: it’s stewed goat tripe and organs and is guaranteed to either cure a hangover or give you one. Otherwise, you can have pastas, steaks, seafood, chicken or pork chicharrones (breaded and fried pieces of meat) with yucca.
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Hebron
This flashy, contemporary and bright two-story restaurant is a luxury pollería (restaurant specializing in roast chicken) on steroids. Lots of windows, impeccable service and a giant children’s playground that would put McDonalds to shame keep this restaurant marked on the calendars of most Chiclayans. Hebron may have the only kids menu in town.
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Las Américas
This bright, popular place off the southeast corner of the plaza is a perennial favorite. With ’60s-style red-and-white booths, Las Américas has a varied menu of soups, meats and fish dishes – try the fish in a savory onion and spicy tomato sauce. This place can be a little hygienically challenged.
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Sipán
In 1987, a royal Moche tomb at Sipán, 30km southeast of Chiclayo, was located by researchers. This find proved to be extraordinary as archaeologists recovered hundreds of dazzling and priceless artifacts from the site. Excavation continues.
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Lambayeque
Partly because of the rare treasures at Sipán, the Chiclayo area has single-handedly cornered the Peruvian market for exceptionally well-designed museums; a point in case is the excellent museum in Lambayeque, 11km north of Chiclayo.
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SuperBumm
This buzzing, neon-lit young thing whips out local dishes, sandwiches, pizzas and cakes faster than you can blink and is filled every night with hungry diners. The upstairs seating is a little quieter. The portions here are elephantine.
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Restaurant el Huaralino
One of Chiclayo’s most upscale restaurants, this place serves good Chiclayan specialties, criollo dishes and international cuisine. Bonus brownie points for some of the cleanest bathrooms in Peru.
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Chez Maggy
It’s not how Papa Giuseppe used to make it, but the wood-fired pizzas at this restaurant have a pretty darn good crispy crust and fresh toppings. They have convenient personal-size pizzas for solo diners.
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cathedral
Chiclayo's cathedral was built in the late 19th century, and the nearby Plaza de Armas (Parque Principal) wasn't inaugurated until 1916, which gives an idea of how new the city is by Peruvian standards.
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El Ferrocol
This hole-in-the-wall, a little out of the center, is well worth the trip, as chef Lucho prepares some of the best ceviche in all of Chiclayo. Treat yourself.
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Plaza de Armas
The Plaza de Armas is a great place to amble as it fills nightly with sauntering couples, evangelical preachers and an army of underemployed shoe shiners.
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La Parra
There are two restaurants side by side here; one is a chifa and the other is a grill, but they share an entrance and a kitchen. Go figure.
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Premium
Turns into a popular place for a tipple and a dance after hours, with loud international music, a mixed crowd, free entry and a boisterous vibe.
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Sabor y Son Cubano
This spot gives the over-35 crowd somewhere to shake their rumps on the weekends, with jazz, classic salsa and Cuban music setting the pace.
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Se Salió el Mar
The warm-hearted owner here whips up fresh-from-the-sea grills and ceviche in a tiny family-owned shop with plastic tablecloths. It’s a gem.
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Pizzería Venecia
This rip-roaring pizzeria attracts a young crowd that listens to rock and Latin favorites while they chug beer with their food.
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Moche Tours
This new tour office has cheap daily tours with Spanish- and English-speaking guides.
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Cine Primavera
This place has five screens, often showing some Hollywood flicks.
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