Well today, joined the tour that I had signed up for. We went for a tour around the centre of Lima. Even more crowds, noise, people, and, cars than Miraflores. Narrow streets, people selling pretty much anything on the streets. Lots of different types of architecture, colonial, neo colonial, copies of buildings in other parts of the world, buildings bought to Lima in pieces and reassembled here.... Went to the Plaza de Armas, people, pigeons, heat, crowds, honking horns ... I am blown away by the sheer number of people around. From the Plaza de Armas went to the Church and Monestary of San Francisco, (Saint Francis). Couple of interesting features ... catacombs ... with thousands of bones and skulls ... There is also a collanade around a garden with walls that are curved ... Not
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