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Places to stay start at your typical side-street hostel for budget minded back-packers and down-on-their-luck entrepreneurs at five soles($1.75)a day to very comfortable and clean hotels on the beach for around fifty soles. Are you an incurable insomniac? Well then, a room on the beach is just the remedy to let the sound of the rhythm of the gently falling waves massage and melt all your tensions away and put you soundly to sleep.
Even in the summer months, the heat never overwhelms you and the fresh, invigorating salt air is only equaled by the smell of hot cancha(fried corn)drifting from one of the many places to eat. And don't worry if you had too much to drink the night before..good cebiche (raw fish marinated in seasoned lemon juice) is plentiful here, very modestly priced, and is just the perfect antidote to snap you out of your hangover quickly. Fresh seafood,caught locally by the reed boat fishermen is, of course, the specialty here. Even the tasty seaweed used in their seafood cuisine is harvested right from the rocks that lie off the beaches of Huanchaco.

Take a long walk on the fishing pier jutting out into the Pacific Ocean waves..explore the narrow, coble-stoned streets that seem to have a hole-in-the-wall snack bar or store on every corner....visit the open-air flea market on the beach that offers plently of locally made handi-crafts..but do it nice and easy. You see, in Huanchaco you don't waste time,you savor it, for here time is to be released slowly and enjoyed.

It takes some experience to ride the rolling waves in one, as witness the European tourist who attempted his skills at maneuvering in one...only to end up on the beach far down from where he started, exhuasted, his pride tarnished, but at least still in one piece. But don't fret. If you yourself want to experience the thrill of galloping like a horse on the waves, a skilled "horseman" will be happy to oblige you for a few soles.
If your looking for "historic sights" to see or "lost treasures" to be found...Huanchaco has them all. Meditation, escaping the rat race, reflecting on life, re-thinking your perogatives, re-charging your "batteries"..these are them.

Well, when I got back to Lima,a friend of mine asked me,"What did you do in Huanchaco? "And, I said, "Nothing!"And he replied,with a look of puzzlement,"Nothing?" And I said once again, with a slight pleasurable grin, "Absolutely Nothing." For I was content in the knowledge that only a Buddist monk or someone who's been to Huanchaco can appreciate and understand the true value of.."wasting time" and doing absolutely "nothing"!

Its hard to believe, but in the 1950's some corrupt politicians were paid-off by a few greedy businessmen who bulldozed a part of the ancient ruins of Chan-Chan to plant sugar-cane to make money !