This page includes many of the things we saw, as we traveled from location to
location for the "Then and Now" photos in the Lima area.
(October 24 to the 27th)
| Lima has a "China Town". |
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| Typical Lima window treatments.... |
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| Again, the main Cathedral. We did the tour through the
Cathedral. |
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| The side chamber, in the Cathedral, where Francisco
Pizarro's body is laid. |
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| Francisco Pizarro's body is in the box, which is visible
through the glass window, directly below the lion. |
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| The main alter.... |
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| Underneath the alter is a catacomb, where many of the
bishops of this church are buried. We are not sure what the bones in
this case were.
Appeared to be about 40 skulls. |
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| Typical tomb, in the catacomb. Very old. |
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| Sandy was uneasy about the bones..... |
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| There was also an art gallery in the Cathedral. These
wooden relief pieces were very stunning. |
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| Another typical balcony of Lima, Peru. |
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| After we took pictures from the steeple, we also took a
tour of the "Convento de Santa Domingo". One of the patios. |
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| Bells ring every 15 minutes. Driven by computers.
That's progress. |
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| This bell was 6 feet across..... |
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| Now you can see the scale. Sandy and David. |
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| These stained glass windows were about 15 feet tall. |
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| The patio of the Convent. |
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| Another angle.... We took the pictures of the
Cathedral, from the small ports just below the angel, on top of the
steeple. |
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| Unusual building facade in Lima. |
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| We are starting to get "Churched out", but the detail on
this church was beautiful. |
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| This is the "Hotel Bolivar", which we had to enter, in
order to take the pictures of "Plaza San Martin". |
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| Nice artistic work.... |
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| Which was merely a base for the statue of Jose San
Martin. |
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| Sandy does pretty good, riding as a passenger in this
kind of traffic. In a still photograph it looks very organized, but in
reality the traffic is very hectic.
I have had taxi's pull up to within 6 inches of my foot.
Sandy will tell you that I am not very polite, when somebody gets
within my "Comfort Zone".
Yes, I have had to use sign language more than once! |
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| To get to the ruins of Pachacamac we rode about 15 miles
south of Lima. Much of the area is dunes, similar to those on the
North East side of Palm Springs.
Here people build shacks on them. |
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| Additional ruins at Pachacamac. These ruins covered
several square miles. |
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| Shanty towns are built right up to the back side of the
ruins. |
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| This reddish/pink dog is the ugliest I have ever seen! |
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| Sandy, a statue and the BMW. The bike is getting a
little beat up. |
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This picture show how the shanty town approaches the ruins.....
We visited the "Rafael Larco Herrera Museo Arqueologico". The Larco
museum is famous for it gold, ceramics, textiles and erotic art.
Larco Museum.....
http://museolarco.perucultural.org.pe/iindex.html
The erotic art IS inappropriate for kids. Some would say it is just
inappropriate, but based on the "Cultural kind of guy I am", I did take some
pictures and here is the link.....
Pre-Columbia Art Again, you have been warned!
That's it through the 27th of October, 2005...............
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