Day in lima ...
went to visit 2 museums with a lot of things to see ...
First the Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú
This is a stone from a temple in the north of Peru ... will go there next time perhaps !
This one is a stone from the ancient Pukara-culture around lake Titicaca (see day 12)
This monolith was used by a farmer as a dining-table !
And of course a lot of pottery ...
One with a special spout from which they drunk !
Masturbation was not alowed so they presented it with the death beside ...
All pottery of high quality of course !
Yet another culture of Peru ... even a bit modern !
There was no writen language in old Peru, but they used ropes and knots to keep a sort of trace of things to tell ... each knot represents something, but what ?
Then went to the second museum : Larco Herrera.
He was a guy who made an enormous pottery collection ... you tell it ... they have it.
On the way to the entrance I saw a real peruvian dog (no hair) ...
... the museum is surrounded by beautiful flowers ...
First I went to the main exhibit-area ... this one has a beautiful layout and enough explanations !
Big surprise ... not only pottery, but a poncho of feathers ....
A little box encrusted with green stones ...
... silverware used for rituals ...
... an idol ... I can imagine those in the niches in the temples I saw during my trip ...
... and of course golden golden plugs and ornaments ...
Afterwards you can walk through their storage-room ... filled to the top with all kind of pottery...
And down in the garden there are two rooms with the biggest collection of erotic pottery !
In the afternoon went to an adobe (clay) pyramid temple in the middle of Lima ... an older culture in Peru with connections to the sea ...
You can see that the clay-tablets are put vertically ... this to have more strength against earthquakes ...
A view on the ruins around the pyramid ...
And a reconstructed pottery in the little museum beside ...
these were the last visits I made ...
Went with my friends to a restaurant in the Barranco neighborhood of Lima and ate antichoouos, wich are pieces of heart grilled ... delicious ... and a piece of grilled fish ... all perfect ...
