Last Day in Peru

TUESDAY:

It's our last day in Peru, and it feels rather strange to consider the fact that in the next 24 hours I will be back in the United States surrounded by English-speaking folks. I have become accustom to the language barrier blocking small talk with waiters, grocery store clerks, and people on the street--will I remember how to properly converse without the existence of such a barrier?

Falsified Bread (Tuesday June 30, 2015)

In other news, our last museum tour was an assemblage of one of the best aspects of Peru: food. Museo de la Gastronomia is basically an entire building dedicated to the variety of cuisine Peru has to offer. Unfortunately, the realistic dish displays were made of inedible material.

Afterwards, we visited the Basilica Cathedral of Lima located in the Plaza Mayor of downtown Lima. I found the most interesting (and perhaps the most morbid, to some) section of the Cathedral the crypt, situated through a narrow staircase underneath the nave of the church. There were rows of unmarked skulls presented behind a glass window, as well as a deep trench filled with caskets a bit too minuscule for an adult body to fit in ... Eerie.

Baby Caskets at the Basilica Cathedral, Lima (Tuesday June 30, 2015)

Skulls at the Basilica Cathedral, Lima (Tuesday June 30, 2015)

Here is my final collection of Peru street photos. Tomorrow I will no longer have to listen to the conversations between cars, will no longer belong to the pack of too many humans fitting on too tiny sidewalks, and will no longer get to see the menu before I enter a restaurant. You will be missed, Peru.

Plaza in Lima (Tuesday June 30, 2015)

Shopping Streets of Lima (Tuesday June 30, 2015)

Ovalo Gutierrez, Mira Flores (Tuesday June 30, 2015) 

Streets of Mira Flores (Tuesday June 30, 2015)

Our Last Hostel, Mira Flores House (June 30, 2015)