Thursday, November 11, 2010

Walking tours of Lima AND... errotic pottery

Happiest dead guy you´ll ever see.  Fortunately proportions of certain body parts seemed to have changed in the last 500 years.
Who hasn´t pictured this before?
I´ll start off this post with a warning: There will be no pictures for a while.  Sorry, I know that´s the most exciting part, expecially when errotic pottery is involved, but through all of our meticulous hours of packing, we managed to forget the chord to connect the camera to the computer. So, no new pictures until we get settled in Sucre and have an address at which to send.
At the moment, we´re in Ica and are on our way to Cuzco via an 18 hour bus!  Not looking forward to that but we have had our fair share of adventures so far.
I had a completely different view of Lima than I had the previous time I was here.   No sweet family to stay with, no fancy restaurants, no being driven around to all the ¨nice¨ parts of town.  We pretty much struck out on everything we attempted to do.  We were told museums were closed Sunday so we thought we would spend the day exploring neighborhoods and plan our Monday activities.  Turns out it is important to have an up to date guidebook as nothing is in the same place it was three years ago.  We spent the day walking around a large part of the city, likely 15 miles in total.  By end of day we were exhausted and found none of the places we were looking for.  Plus we found out that museums are closed Mondays, NOT Sundays and the ruins we were planning on biking to were also closed.  Darn.   But Lima is a much prettier city than I had thought and I think we got a pretty good sample of it.  By now, you are probably wondering when the errotic pottery comes into the picture.  The one museum we were able to go to was the museo Rafael Larco.  Unfortunately Jessica did not make it as she had had enough after 15 miles of walking without finding anything we were looking for.  Who could blame her but she missed out!
Rafael Larco was an archaeologist who studied a number of the pre incan cultures during the 20th century.  He collected some 45,000 artificacts, including a number of pots displaying pre incan sexual practices of men, women, skeletons and animals in all combinations of the above.  I believe the imagination will suffice here but Ill make sure to throw in a picture for illustration at a later date.  Three days in Lima and we were off to Pisco for a tour of Islas Ballestas and Paracas National Park...more on that later!
By the way, if you´re reading this, and there are details and descriptions I leave out, let me know!  Lack of sleep does not necessarily make for good blog writing.

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