Prepared initially for course PERU 3000 BC to 1963. As yet there is no podcasting from this page. Try this instead. Travel north from Lima along the Panamericana highway for about two hours (Km. 159). After passing Huacho, Huara and Vegueta (or is it just before Vegueta?)(map)you will find a turning signposted CARAL. Few, as they speed towards Trujillo or Huaraz have the time (or the right vehicle - but why not try a bike) to journey the extra hour (or so) along a dirt track to an archaeological site boasting to have been the "earliest city / urban settlement in the Americas". (Caral website), A map of the site shows a group of truncated pyramids: the Pirámide Mayor is 153.52 m by 109.42 m by 28.00 m (See www.arqueologia.com.ar) but one of the most interesting is the Gallery Pyramid (See C