Since we
didn’t arrive until afternoon, we had time to read and relax. Saw lots more
dolphins. Others sighted whales, but we did not see them this time.
Interesting
note: Lima “stinks”. As in smells like dead fish. There is a fish drying
factory that really makes parts of the city fragrant when the winds are in the
right (or wrong) direction. We noticed it last time when we left the airport
and this time from the ship in port. Not all day or everywhere, but strong in a
few places.
Since we
have already done the city tour here and taken in the wonderful Junius
Folkloric Show with dinner, we were looking for something else to do here.
We arrived
at 2:00 today and caught a ride in with Marianne’s group that was doing the
city tour with Monica’s Tours.
She dropped
us off at Mercado Indio (Indian craft market) in the Miraflores district where
we wandered around for a while and then caught a cab to the Larco Herrera
Museum. We nicknamed the cab experience “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride”. The museum is
housed in a Vice Royal Mansion built on top of an archeological pyramid in a
beautiful setting with tons of flowers. It houses the largest gold, silver and
jewelry collection of ancient Peru. Very interesting collection of erotic
pottery. We didn’t have time for dinner on this trip but last time we sampled
some of the more “interesting” dishes such as Alpaca, cuy (guinea pig), cow’s
hoove stew, and other local yummies.)
sail in
from our balcony
leaving the port to find tour guide
beautiful grounds of the museum
We had a
refreshing soda at their outdoor café with an attentive waiter that as we would
set down the glass he would pour in more from our bottle. Very serene setting.
After we had toured we went across the street to a neighborhood park and waited
for Monica to pick us up to take us to Lima Parque de la Reserva for their
Magic Water Circuit, the
greatest complex of fountains in the world, certified by Guinness World Record.
We met up with Marianne’s group and watched a wonderful show of water, lights,
music and images, in a circuit that includes 13 water fountains, each with a
unique charm. One was a tunnel that you could walk through. You could walk
through without getting wet, but the kids like to put their hands in it and
water sprays everywhere.
Then we went back to the
ship and grabbed some pizza and dessert before heading to the evening’s show. A
local group called Inkamerica came on board and performed music and dance from
various regions of Peru. High energy and colorful authentic dress. Then it was
late to bed for an early morning wakeup call at 5:15 A.M. to meet Monica for
our tour today at 7:30.
We had beautiful weather
today and it was a good day despite it starting out with some drama. We had
told the group to meet extra early since we had not been in the port area
before and it was required to use a ship’s shuttle to get out of the port and
we weren’t sure how long the process would take. 2 ladies got antsy that we had
waited so long and left us and grabbed a cab. The tour operator was not late,
we were early, but……
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