We walked through a park with a lot of sleeping cats.
Matt was grumpy and did not want to spend any time looking at cats.
The park is full of cats because people who don’t want their housecats bring them to the park and abandon them.
A crazy cat lady feeds the cats in the park.
Which is good because they are not very good hunters.
This site consisted of another adobe pyramid, with seven levels, in a large square. It was built by the Lima culture between 400 and 700 CE.
The site is located in the middle of Lima.
Lima is the capital city of Peru and home to over 7 million people.
The mud bricks were all formed by hand and dried in the sun.
Which means that these are the handprints of someone who lived 1500 years ago.
This pyramid was constructed with the bricks positioned vertically, with mortar at the top and bottom and small spaces in between the brick. This made the pyramid more earthquake resistant.
The walls were built in small trapezoidal sections instead of square edges to make it more stable.
The temple was reused by the later Wairani people to bury some important people. This is a recreation of one of their tombs in the top of the temple.
A large part of the pyramid still has not been excavated, and just looks like a big dirt hill in the middle of the city.
The transition to the excavated bricks on the other side looks funny.
The pyramid had a lot of bricks.
The San Francisco church is very popular.
And not just with pigeons, although that’s what all of the black lines are.
They covered every available surface.
The church and monastery were built between 1673 and 1774. The church honours St. Jude, who is very popular, and on the 28th of each month people line up to petition him for miracles. Because we were there on the 28th the line zigzagged across the entire courtyard, so we did not go inside the church.
However we did go inside the monastery, which has been converted into a museum. Pictures were not allowed inside, so these are taken from random rule breakers on the internet.
This is the last supper painting. Instead of European food it features the apostles eating guinea pig, potatoes and chilis. And in Jesus’s hand that might be an empanada.
In the large spot below there used to be a statue of the Virgin Mary. But somewhere along the way they decided she shouldn’t have the central spot, so they replaced the head and hands of the statue. But only the head and hands. So it now features Jesus, wearing a flowered dress.
We also visited the catacombs, which were used until 1943 and contain about 25,000 bodies. Many of the bones are artistically arranged.
