Slept in this morning as we had no tours booked for the day! After showering, we visited a quaint little restaurant, just around the corner from our hotel, for breakfast. It's run by local nuns - but unfortunately, the breakfast was not much better than the one we're served at the hotel. Bread, jam, coffee & juice. Although... we had the most delicious fresh papaya juice, just blended up at a moment's notice. What a treat!
We took a taxi to visit the Archeological/Anthropological Museum in San Isidro - made a mistake giving the name of the museum to the taxi driver, so we ended up at a different museum, which was a newer one. This museum depicted the peoples of Peru through the pottery that was discovered in ruins or burial sites. The pottery dated back to the years 'Before Christ', through the various Inca reigns. It was very rich is shapes, designs, details and drawings. Very finely done indeed! Through the guide's explanations, we learned a great deal about the original peoples who inhabited Peru through the ages, up to the time of the Spanish conquest (1531AD). This museum, with its varied and vast selection of artifacts, captured a lot of what we have seen & learned since our arrival in Peru. The 2-hr tour was impressive!
Then, we taxied to Chinatown, seeing once more a chaotic mixture of colour, open & closed markets of all sorts, great restaurants, and people galore. As 'white' tourists, Bruce and I stood out like a sore thumb! We ate at the restaurant recommended by our taxi driver, and devoured a delicous won-ton soup, with some very oily spring rolls. My tummy did not enjoy this one bit, but the scenery and the food was worth the trip.
Browsed around for a bit, then returned to the hotel for a quiet evening.
(Lima will long be remembered for the heavy deisel fumes we have to breathe in on a daily basis, and the world's craziest drivers!)
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