Lima

So, as I mentioned earlier, Lima is a super-crazy place. Besides sorting out my visa, we managed to do a bit of sight-seeing. We popped into Miraflores, which is the modern part of town, home to a shopping centre (on the edge of a cliff) with KFC, Starbucks and a Pizza Hut. I wouldn´t say that the Old Centre of town was the most attractive place I have ever seen, but it does have some really interesting churches, monestaries, and the elegant colonial architecture occasionally hides the slums and distracts one from the vehicular orchestra.

In the Monestary of San Francisco there is a painting of the last supper that was adapted to the local culture. When the spanish were converting the indigenous to christianity their main educational tool was art. In the painting, the meal is guinea pig, with oranges and chillies, and the angels hovering above the table have colourful parrot wings.