Our Last Day in Lima, Peru…

Day 11 - Our second day of exploring the city of Lima took us on an excursion to the old colonial central part of the city where the gold-clad exterior and interior decorations in cathedrals and government buildings were wondrous to see.

We could not take photographs inside many of these buildings, particularly the monasteries where the priests and nuns were living and working.  The walls of these buildings were covered with restored fresco art and huge original Ruebens and other masters’ oil paintings that truly awed me.

I will include one or two of the photos of the interiors and exteriors of these 15th Century buildings that had so much intriguing history to tell!

This is the central plaza in downtown colonial Lima…I had to take the picture of the horse statue, of course.

  This huge sculpture is found at Lover’s Park along the seashore in Lima as we traveled to other areas of the city on our day-long excursion.

 We stopped at some of the shops that have really wonderful local crafts, such as this vendor’s little fluffy llama wool figures that just had to come back home with me for my two darling granddaughters, Katie, 10, and Brianna, 8.