{"id":23551,"date":"2015-03-20T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=23551"},"modified":"2015-03-20T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T08:00:17","slug":"friday-20th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=23551","title":{"rendered":"Friday File: Some sights of Lima, Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s photo subject is Lima<\/a>, the capital of Peru. It’s a place we visited while on a 19-day cruise from San Francisco<\/a> to South America, on the Norwegian Sun<\/a>. We booked a private, eight-hour tour to give us the best chance of seeing a place new to us but our tour guide had a specific (and rigid) agenda and when it ended, we’d missed out on something we enjoy most — meeting the locals…<\/p>\n

\"Found<\/a>This “found city” is called <\/i><\/b><\/span>Huaca Pucllana, 40 acres of adobe ruins abandoned in 700 AD and discovered by accident about 50 years ago. Until then, it was just “a hill in the city” and Peruvians have been meticulously uncovering it since 1981 and are nowhere near finished<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\"Edith\"<\/a>This is Edith (we only knew her first name), the daughter of a doctor in Pasco, and well-educated herself because her family could afford to send her to “American” school. She spoke excellent English and talked a lot, which was fine, and clearly knew her history<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\"Cross\"<\/a>At the San Francisco Monastery, there is a lot of interesting religious artifacts, including a large display of crosses, most with the symbolic aspects of the events of Good Friday<\/i><\/b>. By day’s end, we’d had our fill of Peruvian religion and artifacts<\/i><\/b><\/span>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\"Make<\/a>Google “statues in Lima” and you’ll find many different angles of this one, the most popular if not the most famous artistic attraction on the waterfront. You’ll find some of two tourists in the foreground, trying to mirror this pose. No, we didn’t try it.<\/i><\/b> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Poor<\/a>When we asked Edith about this hillside settlement, she didn’t want to talk about it and tried to move us along quickly to the next stop. You see, this is where the poor live in Lima, the colors are their badge of poverty. In most cities, this would be a million-dollar view.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\"Casa<\/a>Inside <\/i><\/b><\/span>Casa Solar de Aliaga, a colonial mansion that has been in the Aliaga family since 1535, when it was given to Jeronimo de Aliaga by the founder of Peru, Francisco Pizarro. A few rooms are still occupied by family, mostly elderly aunts<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Coming back to America…MSC Cruises<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Ruby Princess<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tApril 19, 2015
\n\tLos Angeles<\/a> (return): Puerto Vallarta<\/a>, Mazatlan<\/a>, Cabo San Lucas<\/a>
\n\tOceanview: $514
\n\tCost per day: $73<\/strong>
\n\twww.princesscruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s photo subject is Lima, the capital of Peru. It’s a place we visited while on a 19-day cruise from San Francisco to South America, on the Norwegian Sun. We booked a private, eight-hour tour to give us the best chance of seeing a place new to us but our tour guide had a specific… Continue reading Friday File: Some sights of Lima, Peru<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1893],"tags":[912,72,1888,35,246,126,367,247,26,27],"class_list":["post-23551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-photos","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-photos","tag-cruises","tag-lima","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sun","tag-peru","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}