Interesting street art. Doesn't this look like an Andean woman crossed with the wicked witch of the West?! I love it!
This is the main plaza, Plaza de Armas:
This is a different view of the same plaza...(with Mike)
One day there was a parade, the streets surrounding the plaza were filled with people celebrating Jesus. Mike SWEARS they were shooting cannons. I think they were just using old cars that occasionaly SOUNDED like cannons. What I found incredibly interesting, if not disturbing, were the people that were clearly Andinos, proclaiming their Catholic faith. I wondered, don't they realize they are only Christian because they were conquered by the Spanish? Why don't they resurrect their old beliefs? Here is a perfect picture to show what I mean:
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