Lima, Peru for a day in transit to Arequipa…..weather beautiful all year here!
Museo Rafael Larco is considered the finest collection of pre-Columbia’s artifacts in the world. It is housed in a classis home beautifully maintained. Gardens are bursting with bouganvillas.
I hear a guide explain to his group: from here you enter the gallery of the sexually explicit Mochica ceramica. Would you like the formal polite explanation or the local interpretation? Never mind, it is all self explanatory!
Tiled wall in the side entry to San Francisco Iglesia.
Panel in the San Francisco church side entrance — in Lima, Peru.
Christ has long hair and is wearing a skirt. Indigenous were offended by the nudity, but identified with the pain and suffering of the story of the Passion. — at Museo Convento San Francisco y Catacumbas.
Mary is at the pinnacle of the baroque archway. The Inca sun is on the spire at the top!
Walk or bike along the Pacific cliffs with high rise hotels all along the way. A good antidote to jet lag!
Pacific glare 13 degrees south of the equator as “fall” begins here! Rainy season is over.
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