Ship in Iquitos harbor.  The owner of this ship sat between Arlene and I on the plane flight back to Lima.  The ship is 2300 miles up the Amazon from the Atlantic Ocean.

JW Marriot Hotel, Lima, Peru.  This hotel is on the shore in the Miraflores neighborhood of Lima.

JW Marriott Hotel overlooking the Pacific Ocean.  The hotel is above a 400 foot cliff.

The Pacific Ocean and coastal highway is below the cliff.  The blue building on the cliff edge is a shopping center.

Our room in the Marriott Hotel was one of the nicest we have ever stayed in.  Truely 5 star with a view of the Pacific Ocean.

Even the Bathroom was wonderful after a week in the jungle.  Fully done in nice marble with sparate shower and bath.

Room view looking North.  You can see the famous Rosa Nautica Restaurant on the pier.  There were surfers riding both sides of the pier.

Room view looking West shows the very nice shopping area across the street from the hotel.

View from shopping area looking South.  Arlene and I ate dinner the first night on the deck of the restaurant whose windows you can see here.

Clark with Eliott's Charango on Miraflores street.  We walked to an native crafts bazaar to find this 10-string Peruvian instrument.  The woman looks puzzled by our photography...

Mummy in National Anthropology Museum dated from about 200BC.  Note the exceptional detail on the textiles.

Ancient Textiles from Pre-Inca culture in southern Peru   (about 200BC-800AD) had incredable detail and workmanship.

A selection of Pre-Inca pottery in the museum.  We had a chronological tour and were surprised at the number of well developed cultures in Peru before the Inca consolidated them shortly before the Spanish arrived.

Mold for early pottery.  Most of the pottery that has survived was used for religious purposes.  Molds were used for many pieces.

Dinner at the Huaca Pucllana ruins.  One of the best restaurants in Miraflores is located at these ruins.  It was a great dinner.

View South from shopping area deck.  You can just make out the crescent shape of one of the parachutes the sopared above the cliff each afternoon.

Parachute landing in a crowd in a park lawn about a half mile north of the hotel.

Takeoff over the cliff.  The person under the yellow parachute is jumping off a 400 foot cliff.

Two person parachute getting ready to go

And they are off.  A woman I talked to had soared OVER our 24 story hotel in this rig.

Love Park, Miraflores area, Lima, Peru.  The locals compete for the longest kiss under this statue.  The park is on the cliff in the Miraflores area about a quarter mile north of our hotel.