We met our local guide Jose who gave us a tour of the archeology museum in Lima. To arrive there we drove through San Isidro, another district in Lima, where most of the embassies are located. The Japanese embassy was well fortified with walls and guard towers and machine gun towers. This was in response to terrorist takeover of the embassy. Commandos dug tunnels for 4 months to rescue the hostages. At the museum we learned about of the stages of history. First b...

Arrived early am this morning. Did a short bus ride to Barrano, another district in Lima. Walked around a bit followed by a buffet lunch. We then did a short orientation walk through mira Flores, the district where we are staying. Walked through Kennedy park and back to the hotel via the beach path. Lima is on a high ridge with beach down below. We stopped along the path to visit lovers park with mosaic walls and a huge sculpture of lovers. We also watched the ha...