Street scenes of Lima Peru

Yesterday afternoon we took a few hours to visit an upscale area of Lima called Barranco.  This neighborhood is known for its artisan shops, museums and attractive streets.  We walked around the area before having dinner in one of the many hole-in-the-wall restaurants in Barranco.  The only camera that I carried was my iPhone.  Here are some street scenes of Barranco from yesterday.

My Spanish language skills are still elementary, but I can now go to a store and speak and be understood by the workers, so it is improving.

The weather is unrelentingly the same every day: sunny to partly cloudy, never any rain and high temperatures of about 80 degrees.  The temperatures should begin to cool by the end of May.

As we walked down a busy street, we noticed that the walls of buildings along one side of the street had been painted in various themes.  We spent a half hour photographing the murals and avoiding getting run over by cars, motorcycles and buses.  This painting surrounds an attractive window.

Another painting on a wall along a street in Burranco

Detail of a wall painting in Burranco.

We passed this woman weaving on a cobblestone street.  She ignored me as I took a snapshot.