Lima is a cool city. There are lights everywhere, wonderful food, and a lively night life. But Lima is more than that. Lima, along with many cities in South America, was built on top of thousands of years of history. Most people know the Incas, but what about the societies that preceded them? There were at least four societies that existed before the Inca, and many more societies existed along side the Incas until they were assimilated by the Inca culture. On both Saturday and Sunday we took advantage of the amazing history of Peru and traveled to see artifacts of these lost cultures and how they lived.
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| A gourd made by a pre-Inca society depicting two Alpacas fighting |
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| A pottery depiction of how Inca Royalty traveled |
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| The Incas developed a numbers system in which each string was a different color, representing different things, and each knot on the string represented an amount of that subject (i.e. people, farm produce, etc.) |
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| The Inca Temple of the Sun, where sacrifices were made to insure that the sun stayed shining over the land |
We also shopped at a food market where we bought things we couldn't name, and attended a showcase of the Peruvian Paso horse and its incredible gait.
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| Just one stall of many at the Food Market |
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| A family Hacienda, the Peruvian Paso is their pride and joy |
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| The Peruvian Paso's famed gait, said to be so smooth you could have your morning coffee on horseback |
And at the end of the day today, we went to the Inca Market to buy souvenirs for those back home.
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| The Inca Market: an overhead view |
I cant believe how incredibly lucky you guys are! these are some sweet pics and awesome posts! There will be for sure some awesome memories for the future! keep up the awesome posts!
ReplyDeleteThe picture of the strings and knots was very cool. It's interesting that they had a similar way of counting/keeping record as the ancient chinese and other ancient cultures.
ReplyDeleteI think that is really cool that they have artifacts from not just one cultures but many of them and the pictures you took are very cool and well took
ReplyDeleteHow is the food in Peru?
ReplyDeleteThe food in Peru is very interesting. The fish here is amazing, probably because its fresh out of ocean, and I don't even like fish. The Lomo Saltado, which is an authentic Peruvian dish, is incredible. Supposedly the Chinese-Peruvian Chifa is good but the couple times we have had it I was not impressed. For the most part the food is great because many of the ingredients are much more fresh than you will find in Minnesota, especially in the winter.
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