06-08.08.2015.
Lima
I arrived to Cusco Airport without any problem, but immediately after the check-in the airport police was behind me and asked me to follow them with all my luggages. Of course I did not resist. :-) They escorted me to a separate room of interrogation, where they said that I was randomly choose for inspection. I had to sign a declaration, and then they searched all of my staff. Finally (not because of this) the plane had a 2 hour delay.
At night a university professor colleague, whom I know from Barcelona, invited me to a "garden party" at the terrace of his flat with his friends. At this party I had to realised that he was not just a professor, but he was the chief of staff of the President of the Congress of Peru. I was invited to visit the Congress, the Museum of the Congress and the Inquisition by the director personally and for a lunch with staff of the President. Before the lunch I was escorted to the Plaza Mayor to visit the cathedral and the change of guard at the Government's Palace, where the first song was "Hungarian dances" by Brahms. After lunch I had a meeting with an other university professor.
In the Museum of the Inquisition and Congress I could learn a lot about the history of Peru and some of its leading historical personalities. Its independence was fought and declared by the Argentinian general, José de San Martin, who convened the first session of the Peruvian congress. Peru had territorial conflict with all of its neighbours and lost territory against all of them after gaining its independence (by war or at the negotiation table).
At Saturday I visited the San Francisco church and its catacombs, which was very creepy. I walked in the center of Lima and in the Part "Circuito Magico del Agua". And now I leaving Lima and go by bus to Trujillo.