Following breakfast we bussed to the center of the old city and visited an archaeology museum. Our guide, Dante, is excellent; he shares his excitement with us easily!
Here are a few of the artifacts there:
a cool carving, perhaps of some diety
re-creation of a tomb with mummies, seated in the fetal position
Silver head dresses, which look very Japanese to me
Is this guy cool or what?!!!
On our way to the cathedral near the house of the president. This is that same 'box-on-box' architecture. Pretty good specimens.
Cathedral near president's house--impressive!
A library established in a former railroad station. If you can enlarge, the figure on the left is holding a locomotive!
Pedestrian area near cathedral
My first selfie! The youing man to my left taught me how to capture the beach below. We had such fun with them!
a Venus figure, as in a fertility figure, not a Botticelli
There are people rushing among cars selling all kinds of goods, this man stayed on the sidewalk selling tamales.
Then back to the hotel for a rest; soon we'll be off to dinner on the waterfront below that mountain in my selfie. We already signed up for our choices to eat; I can't remember my request except for fish, since we leave the coast tomorrow, and a dessert of blue corn pudding. I think we had it once in the Amazon.
I've been drinking Chicha Morada at every opportunity; it's also made from blue corn. Those of you in Reno can get it at the corner of Kietzke and Moaa, northwest corner. I recommend it!
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