The main reason we came here again this Holy Week (Semana Santa) and invited our good friends Fillmore and Joan to help us experience this (and take us to places we might not have gone) is to see the daily processions and the alfombras (carpets or rugs) made of about anything you want. So far, we have not been disappointed on any count.
We have already gone to very good restaurants we would not have gone too because I'm a street food junkie. Each one hit the spot. Saturday afternoon, we went to Comida Thai, a place that we stumbled upon and had gone to last year with out daughter and her family, stumbling upon it then too. Very good (I'm told), but I was too stuffed on street food to partake. Dinner time found us at Angies Angies for a full meal of fish (snook!), pollo (chicken) and fries smothered in a salsa curry (fabulous), salads to die for, and a great (not as good as mine) flan. Of course we also imbibed - beers and margaritas. This place is on 1st Avenue in a funky part of town surrounded by youth hostels and unusual eateries and drinkeries. We recommend it.
Enough, now for some photos from my camera - starting in the morning around 6 AM when only I was up and about, and going until about 3 PM when we were all exhausted:
Here stars the procession from La Merced
Those things around the cross and in a couple of photos a few frames down from here are drones watching out for our/my copyright on this stuff (or keeping track of us for NSA?).
If you did not ee them in the previous photo, here they are.
Tonight it's a Peruvian meal and it's a hike up the Pakaya volcano tomorrow morning for a sacrifice.
I hope to be in touch with you after that.
T
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