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| Lima's main square Plaza de Armas |
Air Canada's direct flight to Peru drops you in
Lima in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, our hotel had an all-night street party in full swing, so our taxi driver found us another hotel that could take us in - at twice the price, of course.
We spent the next morning visiting the main square (with seriously well-armed soldiers on every corner) and the catacombs of a
Fransican monastery.
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| The library of the Fransican monastery with ancient books yet to be studied |
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| A huge choir book in the monastery |
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| The monastery's catacombs are filed with neatly arranged monks' bones |
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| Peruvian police are everywhere and ready for trouble |
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| Looking down on the Pacific Ocean from the cliffs of Miraflores |
Lunch in the Miraflores neighbourhood was followed by a brief trip to
one of the many pre-Inca ruins that were preserved as the city grew
around them.
The next morning we were off to Cusco, former capital of the Inca empire!
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