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We journey to the Land of the Incas.
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1000places > LIMA, PERU - Perhaps more intriquing than the public exhibits is the storehouse vault in the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera. With a local guide, we were permitted to enter the vault where hundreds of artifacts filled its shelves.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - The Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera houses more than 45,000 pieces of stonework, jewelry, and textiles.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - Some of the scores of mostly unexamined artifacts lining the shelves of the storeroom at the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - The Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera also has one of the largest collections of erotic ceramics from the Moche Dynasty that was at its most expressive peak from A.D. 200 to A.D. 700.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - The Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera also houses one of the finest examples of a quipu - an intricately knotted string that the Incas used to tally the resources of their empire. To this day, researchers are unsure of how to read them.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - There is another, more modern, face to Lima. A brightly lit shopping center built into the oceanfront cliffs in the Miraflores district caters to the more affluent Limenos.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - Three of our co-travelers obviously enjoyed their deserts one evening.
1000places > NAZCA LINES - Some of our group took a side trip to view the "greatest scratchpad on earth" - the Nazca Lines.
1000places > NAZCA LINES - Four of us boarded a small commuter airplane to fly from Lima to Ica City, some 200 miles down the Peruvian coast.
NAZCA LINES - Some of our group took a side trip to view the "greatest scratchpad on earth" - the Nazca Lines.
> NAZCA LINES - Some of our group took a side trip to view the "greatest scratchpad on earth" - the Nazca Lines.
NAZCA LINES - Some of our group took a side trip to view the "greatest scratchpad on earth" - the Nazca Lines.
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