Lima....Sightseeing 6. Day

Sorry for letting you waiting a bit, but had something to do... but now, let's go on, to see what had happen and to watch new pics...of course... Before I started to write this post I was searching in the internet and also had my eyes on the swedish press and what did I saw... a traveler agency is calling you to make a journey to Peru.... and shows a pic of the Machu Picchu... and then I did read about a Bus who had a crash in the Anden and fell down about 250 meters.. well I can imagine that very well...
Part of the streets I was on the way in Peru where very close to the hill and also close to the abyss.
Well nine in the morning I met the other four guys which became my new companions... All of them are from Germany and had booked the same trip... more or lesson... and because the new guide decided to start her tour "the sightseeing" later on the day we discuss and till the end I was the one who took 'em out for a little walk through Miraflores and to the beach, then to the shopping streets, back over the olive grove to the hotel, but before we where back, we stopped next to the Kennedy park and sat down in a coffee to drink beer and coffee... and one of us was also eating a bit. On the way through town we saw cats around the Municipalidad cathedral.. which stands on the side of the Kennedy park and this Park is connected to an other park the Park central. The church had an organization which tried to get you to adopt a cat. The cats actually looked all healthy and comfortable being around the church and walkin' through the parks...
Around ten minutes before we had to start the tour in a bus with our new guide we arrived in the hotel and refreshed. She spoke quite well german and told us a lot about the areas we where driven through and she answered the question the guys had well too, like how is it with money and work, what if you don't have any, and of course she talked about ....the San Francisco church, also was with us in the church and told us the history and what it means today for them and about the art and yet, there is really something to learn about this church... from outside it does not look so big, but nice and yellow, with white stripes, but inside it is very big over the earth but when you go down the stairs... big, bigger, hugh ... bit like a town under a town became this church...  Once down the stairs people where hide, mostly immigrants... then people died and so they had a place there to to find rest and so it became a big, big cemetery under the earth.... a lot of bones are still to find there and like big tanks and manholes... the bones - the dead .. well they lay each over each... no space, so no big deal... bones over bones... dead over dead... and we went through corridors. Over and overand over again.... The church is by the way also a monastery and on the floors they found frescoes in the beginning of the renovations... sure all they look very beautiful and tasty.... At the end, before we had some free minutes left to make pics outside, she showed us a room with portraits of priests... and furnitures... the looked really real, but was actually a fake... not all but the most, the truth is... these furnitures where doors to the underground... we had the luck to take a look when they are open...
The Church otherwise is nice and when you stand on the door lookin' out to the street you see a simple building, classic and nice... Once there lived about two thousand poor people inside... but with just three toilets inside the whole building - well, this was nothing to last for long.... just now this nice house is standing still and empty... just with the memories of those people..
By the way a funeral cost about 3000,- Dollars and so the poor people can't effort this... What do they do? They go outside the town and have a illegal ceremony... cheaper and kind of hide... All the mayors knows about that, but they do not say anything about it. Why should they... to change this they have to eliminate poverty.... Why is it so expensive? Well, a ceremony in the church, some music, some walk and a real and open casket, then the burning and then the graveyard..... You don't make it cheap there, just burning and lying in grass... they want to celebrate you, when you're dead... want to show you respect and give you as much love as they can... give you your own parade... and orchestra... not just music from a CD....

San Fransico

inside the church 

from inside the church lookin' to the house where once lived those poor people

While most of the time of or tour we sat in the car, some parts where filed with a walk.. and so we could see the big churches, parliament houses... the places and Palace...at rest... and colorful houses on a hill, where poor people live and it looks so much like those colorful houses you know from Italy... 
At least we landed in the district Monterrico with it's private Museum which shows a lot of Inca riches, gold, cloths..... and other things, mummies and some pics... our guide also guided us through the museum.. Well, to be true, I did not listen much to her, 'cos I have already read so much about it that I prefer to watch carefully, take my time to understand and see and if there is a question, I read what is written on the wall or keep it in mind and google or read after the visit...
Otherwise.. for me.. I think you miss too much of the exhibition...

Placa de San Martin

catedral from Placa de Mayor / Place of the Weapons 

Placio de Gobierno/ Presidential Palace on the Pl. Mayor

wooden balconies of the archbishopric next to Pl. Mayor

the colorful houses on the hill... 

At the Placa de Mayor  we could not go over the place... security kept us away.. it was, because they was and official parade in the morning, which was not anymore when we came, but those things have often the problems in the back, that a lot of young and not so young people are waiting in the streets to find a chance to demonstrate.. which is understandable... when you think about the wage and the high rate of people out of work... 
Anyway... again a day with clouds in the sky, a lot of walkin' and talkin'....
See you next.... and, yes...
I always watch TV at the end of the day, it helps so much to get to know a country better and to know what is going on and in Peru you can watch a lot of channels on the hotel TV and of course free internet and a must is always ...take a look into the press, the newspapers... gives you more than you believe... if you really want to get a touch of the place you stay... 

LOVE & LIGHT