Lima, Peru December 2008
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Shoe Shine People Susan looking for tours
O.D. and Pam waiting for the bus after lunch
Susann and Mick The extensive archaeological collection in this museum includes more than 100,000 items from pre-Hispanic cultures including ceramics, metals, funeral offerings and carved stone figures.
Stephanie, O.D. and Woody
Peruvian Hairless Dog
The San Francisco Church and Monastery is a lovely Baroque church and is widely considered to be a colonial masterpiece. The interior is lavishly decorated in the Moorish style and contains a valuable collection of religious art, a 17th century library and a cupola with a superb carved ceiling. Beneath the church is a famous network of Catacombs containing thousands of bones and skulls all arranged into various patterns, the eerie Catacombs are well worth a visit but are not for the faint hearted! Source Peruvian Secrets
Memorial to those who died when
National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History
Around A.D. 500 Miraflores area was dominated by an imposing Ceremonial Administrative Center is now known as Huaca Pucllana. This site covers an area greater than 15 hectares, possibly coming close to the Bajada Balta, where in 1925 Alfred Kroeber, American anthropologist, found a cemetery at the time, which would relate to the builders of the settlement.
Huaca Pucllana was one of the most important ceremonial centers Administrative Lima of Culture, which took place between the years 200 and 700 d. C. GEOGRAPHICALLY running on stage through the valleys of Chancay, Chillón, Rimac and Lurin, with occupation and influence in the middle and upper parts of these respectively.
Shining Path set off a car bomb in this spot.
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