After many more hours than I was first thinking I would stay at the parque de leyendas, I continued to walk in the direction (with my newly friends) of the archaeological, anthropological and historical museum. After awhile and many new directions, I took a (yellow) cab. Unfortunately nor did he know where it was, so I started to become at unease and told him to ask any policeman or security I could find. No one seemed to know.....But after many more direcctions, we finally arrived at a peaceful and beautiful square. Unfortunately the museum was closed.... But there was a woman working in this districts municipality office, who told me that she knew another great museum, very well-visited. She told me it was the way she was going and I could accompany her (she had this municipality sign on her and was in her 40s). We passed a lot of very calm neighbourhoods. All of a sudden we came to a big park with a very big tree. It was one of the oldest in Lima, 200 years old, grown by a very important person...
We continued some streets more and there it was; museum de Larco. An entrance stunning with flowers of all the imaginable colours. I joined with a group of middle-ages ladies from Canada. The entrance was more than average (30 soles) and I had no idea about this place. But it seemed to have a lot of nice things, collected by this man called Rafael Larco who lived in the beginning of last century. Apparently they had a lot of collections preserved - textiles, ceramics, jewellry...and also a part where they stored ceramics showing different fertility positions. I was told that some visited the museum just to see this.
But I was happy to see everything; it was a beautiful collection! They also had a reference library and a great short introduction movie. A place well-worth to visit when in Lima.
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