Lima is a combined city. It has many towns within it. Some are poorer and older,
others middle class and a little upscale.
The city is subject to a lot of earthquakes, so not many of the buildings are over 100 years old, tho some old churches still exist. We went to an old Franciscan monastery, a Catholic Church and another church. It was Sunday, so church was in session. The music at each was different, but very beautiful. At the monastery they were having a procession with a reminder of the holocaust and had sung a song to the melody of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. At the Catholic church, they had an organ with choir singing Ode to Joy. At the last church they had guitars and drums and native singers.
I wish we had more time to spend at each, but the bus waits for no man or woman. We learned at the Gold museum, that the Inca's were only in power for about 100 years. Most of the old stuff is pre-incan. We didn't know that. The pre-incan's were very advance in metalurgy. They were able to bond gold and silver together about 400 ad, while the Europeans weren't able to do that until the 1500's. Amazing. I will come back here to see the Nazca Lines ( drawings only visible from the air), Machu Piccu and the Galapagos Islands.
We also saw the Park of Love, with this statue.
Last nite we had a folklore show that was very good. It seems that Paul Simon, Michael Jackson and street people all stole something from the Peruvians. Simon's song that starts "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail..." sounds just like an old folksong. The natives do a dance on the toes of their tennis shoes, and they spin on their heads and do the snake pop.
We are now on our way to Easter Island, after 4 1/2 days at sea.
others middle class and a little upscale.
The city is subject to a lot of earthquakes, so not many of the buildings are over 100 years old, tho some old churches still exist. We went to an old Franciscan monastery, a Catholic Church and another church. It was Sunday, so church was in session. The music at each was different, but very beautiful. At the monastery they were having a procession with a reminder of the holocaust and had sung a song to the melody of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. At the Catholic church, they had an organ with choir singing Ode to Joy. At the last church they had guitars and drums and native singers.
I wish we had more time to spend at each, but the bus waits for no man or woman. We learned at the Gold museum, that the Inca's were only in power for about 100 years. Most of the old stuff is pre-incan. We didn't know that. The pre-incan's were very advance in metalurgy. They were able to bond gold and silver together about 400 ad, while the Europeans weren't able to do that until the 1500's. Amazing. I will come back here to see the Nazca Lines ( drawings only visible from the air), Machu Piccu and the Galapagos Islands.
We also saw the Park of Love, with this statue.
Last nite we had a folklore show that was very good. It seems that Paul Simon, Michael Jackson and street people all stole something from the Peruvians. Simon's song that starts "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail..." sounds just like an old folksong. The natives do a dance on the toes of their tennis shoes, and they spin on their heads and do the snake pop.
We are now on our way to Easter Island, after 4 1/2 days at sea.
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