Last wednesday our day classes were cancelled so we went to Perus' goldmuseum. There were many gold objects from the time of Incas and also old weapons from all over the world. Also objects from the time when Fransisco Pizarri came with his 180 men to Peru from Spain to conquer the kingdom of Incas. The Incas were too weak because of the sicknesses and civil war that they had gone through. Also Europen weapons were highly developed compared to the indians weaponery. This happened in 1531. By the year 1542 Peru was under the Spanish flag and almost every important tribal leader were slayed. Another interesting thing left a mark in my mind; Lord of Sipan. There were a recreation of him in the museum. He is a mummy found in a tomb in the 80's in Chiclayos area in Peru. He was found wearing over 400 jewelries and a lot of gold and silver. He was buried with 3 other women and children.
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| The tomb of Lord of Sipan (wikipedia) |
Then on Thursday after school we decided to take a 3hour lesson of sandboarding right outside of Lima. The teacher came to pick us up with a car and drove 1hour to the dunes. There we got to practice how to go standing, in Ica we only got to go on our stomaches. It was fun and I did not fall on my face! In Finland I have now the courage to try snowboarding.
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| I hated the part to walk up again after going down... |
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