Last Day in San Jose
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We´ve been busy – yesterday we went to the Gold and Jade museums, did a walking tour of the city and met several interesting characters. Today we hired a fantastic taxi driver named Jose to take us outside of the city to some sites that are not conveniently accessed by public transit, but are well worth seeing. We went to the Dokas Coffee plantation, Zoo Ave (a zoo that´s full of endangered or injured animals that are being rehabilitated before re-introduction to the wild), and a town famous for it´s arts and crafts called Sarchi where they make beautiful wood and leather furniture, and they´re famous for their painted ox carts – if you can be famous for that.
Last Day In Lima
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And then there were two…
We’re the only ones left from our tour group of 12. We spent yesterday morning with Catherine and Brian, visiting the Rafael Larco Herrera private gallery of pre-Inca porn pottery. That’s not really what it’s called, but that’s what the ground floor of the gallery is – pottery figures of every kind of sexual act known between the living and the dead, and animals. Particularly amusing was the pottery depiction of sexually transmitted diseases – there was no beating around the bush (or maybe that’s all there was…) in the blatancy of the imagery. That’s not all there was to the gallery. There was also a very thorough collection of pottery depicting scenes, animals, objects and deities of importance to the every day life of pre-Inca civilization, gold and silver body adornments, woven textiles of incredible intricacy, but they were a little overshadowed by the enormous endowments of the pottery figurines downstairs. We left felling like we were walking underwater – it was all a little overwhelming but well worth the visit.
In Bayonne, France
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We had a fun last hike in Innsbruck before leaving on the train that night for Bayonne to visit my sister, brother-in-law, niece & nephew.
The last hike took us all the way down the Brenner highway, then branched off into a small, steep side valley just inside the Austria / Italy border. Our hike started at the very end of this side valley, and we slowly climbed up one of the valley walls, switchbacking up 830 m. to a hut in the bowl between two mountain ranges at the foot of the reminenets of a glacier. It was nice to have the cooling effect of the glacier in the heat of the day.
