Thursday, December 31, 2009

LA RECOLETA

December 29th Naty joins Laura and us
for a tour to the La Recoleta Monastery,
founded by the Franciscan order in 1648.

The impressive tower can be seen from
several vantage points throughout Arequipa.



The library is incredible, with 20,000
books, some dating as far back as 1494.

So valuable are these books, visitors are
threatened with excommunication if
they were to take one out of the library or copy from one -
this makes the U.S. copyright laws seem spineless!


Sandy and Laura

Laura poses next to a wooden canoe, used
during colonial times. Perhaps it is similar
to one Sandy's grandmother might have
ridden down the Amazon in the 1920's.




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