Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Peru vs Ecuador

There are some changes almost as soon as you go over the border. First is an architectural quirk relating to industrial buildings in Peru.All have walls and guard posts allong the wall. Didn't notice any of that in Ecuador. Also there is the sudden appearance of motocycles converted to three wheels to carry paying passengers. They seem to have various names ie mototaxi. Those are fairly harmlessobservations but the other big impression Peru makes and which I had forgotten was the road-side garbage. It makes the little dumps along the West Montrose Road at home look positively spotless.
In Chiclaya,we took a trip out to LLambeque to see a fantastic museo dedicated to a pyramide tomb created 1700 years ago for a leader of the Moche culture (the Mochicas). Housed in a spectacular building with marvelous displays of the finds and how the tomb may have been laid out.A truly great museo that must not be missed. I must be retaining some of the hard-earned Spanish as I understood most of the displays. We went to another museo in the same town but it tried to cover too much and did so without any continuity.
Jim

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