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Today was spent in Lima and we started with a bus tour of the city. Here's a description of Lima in the winter: San Francisco fog. On the bus tour we went through a lot of neighborhoods, one of which resembled the French Quarter in New Orleans, if it had been hit by an earthquake immediately following Katrina. The buildings are a hodge podge of architecture as a result of earthquakes and so it looks like colonial South America meets 1970's Lain American dictatorships (think lots of concrete.... Or, my least favorite city, Bucharest), meets modern glass buildings. It's quite confusing.
Wait, where do the skulls come in?
Well, we went to the Convent of San Francisco (no photos allowed... Pretty sure Tom broke this rule) and went into the catacombs (which involved dad walking around hunched over for a lengthy period of time as the ceiling was probably 6 inches higher than my head). In the catacombs are the skulls a femurs (because they preserve well) of roughly 25,000 people. There was no cemetery in Lima early on, so they buried people under the convent so they could be "closer to God" (yes, I'm thinking what you're thinking... Isn't underground closer to someone else...?).
We then walked to the Plaza Mayor and walked around. There were police and military personnel everywhere because there were strikes going on and they were keeping them off the plaza (after my ETA experience in Spain and my police with riot gear experience in DC, things like that don't bother me much).
Eventually we made our way back to Miraflores and to Lorcamar, which is a giant outdoor mall built into the cliffs along the Pacific. There we had some lunch ( I had ceviche!) and then went for a walk along the cliff side. It's about 65 degrees, but there were plenty of people out surfing.
Next we walked to the ChocoMuseo.... Museum of chocolate. There we learned how chocolate was made (dad watched a really long video and can now make choclate from scratch...maybe). We had cacao (chocolate) tea and then I had Mayan hot chocolate, which was delicious. After that we headed back to the hotel and are taking a break before we head to dinner.
Tomorrow morning we board a flight for Cuzco!!
Today was spent in Lima and we started with a bus tour of the city. Here's a description of Lima in the winter: San Francisco fog. On the bus tour we went through a lot of neighborhoods, one of which resembled the French Quarter in New Orleans, if it had been hit by an earthquake immediately following Katrina. The buildings are a hodge podge of architecture as a result of earthquakes and so it looks like colonial South America meets 1970's Lain American dictatorships (think lots of concrete.... Or, my least favorite city, Bucharest), meets modern glass buildings. It's quite confusing.
Wait, where do the skulls come in?
Well, we went to the Convent of San Francisco (no photos allowed... Pretty sure Tom broke this rule) and went into the catacombs (which involved dad walking around hunched over for a lengthy period of time as the ceiling was probably 6 inches higher than my head). In the catacombs are the skulls a femurs (because they preserve well) of roughly 25,000 people. There was no cemetery in Lima early on, so they buried people under the convent so they could be "closer to God" (yes, I'm thinking what you're thinking... Isn't underground closer to someone else...?).
We then walked to the Plaza Mayor and walked around. There were police and military personnel everywhere because there were strikes going on and they were keeping them off the plaza (after my ETA experience in Spain and my police with riot gear experience in DC, things like that don't bother me much).
Eventually we made our way back to Miraflores and to Lorcamar, which is a giant outdoor mall built into the cliffs along the Pacific. There we had some lunch ( I had ceviche!) and then went for a walk along the cliff side. It's about 65 degrees, but there were plenty of people out surfing.
Next we walked to the ChocoMuseo.... Museum of chocolate. There we learned how chocolate was made (dad watched a really long video and can now make choclate from scratch...maybe). We had cacao (chocolate) tea and then I had Mayan hot chocolate, which was delicious. After that we headed back to the hotel and are taking a break before we head to dinner.
Tomorrow morning we board a flight for Cuzco!!
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