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1000places > ICA CITY - After our stomachs had stopped churning from the Nazca flyover, we traveled to Ica City and one of its most famous attractions: the Huacachina Oasis. Situated between huge sand dunes, the oasis is the last of the seven original oases that surrounded the city. Development in the area has caused the water table to drop, drying out the other six.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - It was almost springtime in Lima when we arrived and many of the city's parks were beginning to come into bloom.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - Lima has several urban parks but none is quite like the Parque del Amor, literally "Love Park." Its centerpiece is this sculpture, apparently an imitation of the Parque Guell in Barcelona.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - Our first hotel in Lima was the Antiqua Miraflores, a converted mansion build in the early 1900s in one of the city's more upscale districts.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - Deep below the Monasterio de San Francisco are catacombs where the skulls and bones of hundreds of monks have been arranged according to type.
1000places > LIMA, PERU - Pizarro didn't have much time to enjoy his new city. His former residence was built where the Palacio de Gobierno (Government Palace) stands today. But in 1541, he was assassinated - not by revengeful Incas, but by rival Spaniards. The present building was completed in 1938.
1000places > ATHENS, GREECE - The National Archaeological Museum in Athens is home to one of the world's greatest collection of antiquities.
1000places > ATHENS, GREECE - Bronze statue of Emperor Augustus from around 12-10 B.C. found in the sea between Evia and Ag Efstratios.
1000places > ATHENS, GREECE - The most elaborate changing-of-the-guard occurs every Sunday morning at the Greek Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Parliament.
ICA CITY - After our stomachs had stopped churning from the Nazca flyover, we traveled to Ica City and one of its most famous attractions: the Huacachina Oasis. Situated between huge sand dunes, the oasis is the last of the seven original oases that surrounded the city. Development in the area has caused the water table to drop, drying out the other six.
1000places > ICA CITY - After our stomachs had stopped churning from the Nazca flyover, we traveled to Ica City and one of its most famous attractions: the Huacachina Oasis. Situated between huge sand dunes, the oasis is the last of the seven original oases that surrounded the city. Development in the area has caused the water table to drop, drying out the other six.
ICA CITY - After our stomachs had stopped churning from the Nazca flyover, we traveled to Ica City and one of its most famous attractions: the Huacachina Oasis. Situated between huge sand dunes, the oasis is the last of the seven original oases that surrounded the city. Development in the area has caused the water table to drop, drying out the other six.
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