Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba L travel museum displays treasures of incas to Tampa Florida a special easter rate of s4n.w from Winnik i March 26th april 9th two weeks in sunny Florida including 1 visit Disneyland Busche gardens Bartke s dinner theatre sunken gardens charter air fare transfers and accommodation causeway Beach resort a drives extra visits Disneyland and other Tours i available in see your agent Obs tick Tours phone 204 452-1027 2o4 452-1098 by Charles Parr thinking Back 1 can t re Call any ride from Airport to City Centre which gives a really Good impression. From Heathrow you drive through the dreary suburb of Hounslow the run from Ken Nedy is just As depressing arrival at Bombay brings you through some of the City s worst slums and Tokyo displays an endless succession of ugly sprawl ing factories. The Jorge Chavez Airport car rentals in Britain in Lima is no exception. The outskirts of the Lown seem to consist of two Storey mud Brick tenements which Are either being built or which appear to have been slapped together in the last couple of weeks. In the distance on the first slopes of the foot Hills of the Andes you can see a whole squatter Colony of even More primitive dwellings. You get the feel ing you re entering some kind of hurriedly built Peru Vian transit Camp. As in All the other cases Daoana aah Varad to Maui at a major . A tonal from weakly Tondu unlimited Fra Mila Aga. Auto station and Tampan Ava Ilama. Spacial Tariff for one Way cantata. Adman a quiz Manta me Ludma to cams 17. Church Straat. Watton Surrey. England. 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You re expected to bargain and indeed you must if you want a reason ably fair Deal but one Bull Point is that you can walk around shops and look at everything without being pestered to buy and nobody takes it amiss if you Don t. However one does t have to go far to realize that Nei ther the glittering shops nor the tatty suburbs Are More than Mere modern accretions to this inca and Spanish colonial City. A Short walk from the smart Avenida Nicolas Pierola takes one through narrow streets of ancient houses with elaborately carved wooden Balco Nies on the first floor in exactly the same style As those you see in the older Spanish towns and in the canaries with the outstanding difference that the prevail ing color of the buildings in old Lima is Pink in Honor of Santa Rosa the City s Patron Saint. These houses too Are Flim Sily built with Delapi dated patches Here and there showing Only mud bricks with Bamboo supports. Mackie travel Europe 77 american express Tours 43 different Tours Britain european classic Rhine cruise alone soviet Union Scandinavia Call Mackie travel american express representative 285 Gerry St. University Centre 942-3423 2wm173 200 Gerry St. 310 Broadway ave. 943-5501 several puzzles were re solved when we reached the Plaza de armas the vast main Square of Lima with the archbishop s Palace and government buildings on three sides and the Cathe dral in a curious mixture of styles on the fourth. Four cathedrals have been built on this of the erected Over the foundations of an inca Sun Temple Noth ing remains. Of the second there is Only the lower part in italian Renaissance style. Above that is a layer in Spanish baroque and the Tower is classical 19th Century. All the rest said my guide had been shaken cracks were visible Here and there along the base. Then i remembered that the Moun Tain Backbone of South America runs along an earthquake Belt and that it is this constant Hazard which accounts both for the make shift appearance of the new suburbs and the lightweight construction throughout old Lima. A Short ride along More Pink streets brought me to the court of the inquisition on the Plaza Bolivar a grisly reminder of 250 years of religious persecution. The Long table Al which the inquisitors sat is still Here. Further Back to the right is the heavy mahogany door with a two Inch Hole through which witnesses nude their accusations. Since the inquisitors were allowed to retain the property of those they tortured it was the Cus Tom to pick on wealthy Here tics. Many thousands died Here before the inquisition was abolished in 1820. Even after this lapse of time it s still a Creepy feeling to stand in t it Nice to know that a Holiday has not lost its value London from be Frankfurt from we Are thursday Evem legs until i. For yer charter w clutter class Tigett my return Taue a fact Garry Square Hwy. Winnipeg. R3t2ai. To Hawaii every week. Winnipeg to Honolulu every sunday. What s a Sun worshipper like you doing Here in the Middle of Winter come with up air to bar feet and body surfing and Lazy Days of lying on the Beach. You la enjoy convenient Daylight departures. Meal service with a polynesian flavour. And special in flight hospitality. Which is another sunny thought. Orchid Island service from Alberta to Hawaii. Our Beautiful Orange jets also Fly from Edmonton to to Honolulu every monday and Friday. And from Calgary to Honolulu every thursday and and of course we can arrange connections for you from Winnipeg to either Alberta City As Well As to Vancouver. Waikiki vacation. funds talk about affordable vacations. This budget Holiday includes your return airfare from Winnipeg with up air based on a minimum group of 10 assembled for traditional Lei greeting upon arrival. 13 nights accommodation double occupancy with Kitchenette at a Good Waikiki hotel. Get acquainted party. City Punchbowl sightseeing excursion. Services of qualified escorts and tour guides. Complimentary Beach bag. And other Little extras you la appreciate. It7cp1tw79. Ask your travel agent or up air for More sensational details. Then escape with us to Hawaii. And get out of the cold. Price is subject to change. Chair Orange is Beautiful service to Hawaii. Iii a court which echoed with despairing screams for Over two centuries. Lima has a great collection of museums covering All aspects of pre inca. Inca and Spanish colonial Art and history. But for the most vivid interest and especially for those with limited time in the capital 1 would recommend a private collection open to the Public situated a few Miles out of town. This is Mujica Callo s famous Gold museum on permanent display at his Home in Monte Rico. The route lies Southwest along the Avenida Arequipa. I Iris leading through some impressive but less formal squares with stall keepers Selling Antic Ucho the Peru Vian National dish with chopped of heart and Chick in livers on skewers Pepper up with Chili sauce. Then we entered a More dignified stretch of the Avenida. With thickly planted Balsa and Palm Trees fronting the Gar Dens of foreign embassies. You can see Many styles of architecture Here including Spanish French. Moorish. American and even English mock Tudor. Next a Flower Market under Banyan Aca Cias and Jac Arandus. And then the Avenida opens out again for the last Lap to Mon Verrico. One wishes the air port could have been sited in this direction Callo s Home stands in its own private Park with Llamas looking like pint sized camels grazing Here and there among the Shrub Bery. The stairway leading up to the main exhibition rooms is lined with posters advertising recent visits of Choice items from the collection to various cities abroad. New York Paris Toronto. London Warsaw Kansas. Tokyo Brussels Helsinki. Budapest Cologne an Al most endless list. The sheer amount and weight of Gold is almost in much to grasp. There neck laces worn by inca priests solid helmets Golden fingernails for dancers Cheek buttons attached by Means of holes through the checks nost rings in run coverings and ponchos sown Over completely with half Inch squares of Gold. The exhibits which include four Pound Nugget font near the surface four cer tries ago. Give an idea the immense amount of lit i Sirpal to pen in int a and one can understand he and his men greed vandals As they were Wen Able in melt Down eight ton at. A time for transport had in Madrid. Some of the most sri Kin exhibits were plundered from Graves am among these arc Gold i crowns adorned with Parro and Condor feathers which were placed on the Heads n mummified High priests the Heads arc Here too on with All the Teeth extract and replaced with amethysts while the Skull of Ai inca Warrior topped with feathers and Gold head a fuss Stin Bias Iii Snail if Spear embedded in its Riglo Temple. This is Only a beginning. Ii the next room there is an other overwhelming display this time in the form of sym Bolic weapons buried in the Graves of warriors Goldei. Spears Golden slings Golden blowpipe Golden Batt Ica xes in endless Success Ion. Then there Are the ceremonial knives used of human sacrifices also ii solid Gold and Golden Glove used to protect the hand when burning incense. Thei a Hall packed with Chirm pre inca solid Gold drink ing vessels for offering Liba Lions to the gods and Golder cups and pots for Ordinary Domestic use. Bearing in mind that the exhibits Here represent Only a minute surviving portion of the Gold once common in Peru one can easily imagine How the legend of Al a Prada the country abounding in Gold reached the ears of those Early european adventurers. There is so much of inter St to see in Lima once Yoi. Get to know your Way about that a week would be needed in do hit rounds in reason Able Leisure. It should by added that Lima has a Peculiar climate sometime but cooled by the Humboldt current and therefore rarely hot in spite of its nearness to the Equa Tor. And it never Rains according to the locals. This is almost literally True with an annual rain fall of less than two inches compared with 21. Living is a ;