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A couple of more from Arequipa, Peru
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 4:47 am
by the_hefay
A favorite past time of the kids down at the plaza is feeding the pigeons. The other two shots are of two separate cloisters in what is a former monastery turned tourist shopping area. I'm sure the church still owns the property and makes money from the rent or the businesses in some other manner.
Re: A couple of more from Arequipa, Peru
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 4:11 pm
by sury
What a pastime. My kids favorite pastime
is watching TV. Nice capture.
If it were not for floor patterns I would
have thought you posted it twice. Nice angle on the cloisters.
Re: A couple of more from Arequipa, Peru
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 7:41 pm
by Dusty
They probably don't have TVs. While relatively cheap to the industrial world, some people are still living on $5 a day.
Reminds me a story I read of an American in Peru visiting an "Adult Entertainment" establish, and smoking a large cigar. The guard asked him about it and he offered him one. The guard asked what they cost in the US, and he replied "About $8".
Quite shocked, the guard said "They're as much as a night with a hooker?"
The American, just as shocked, said "You can get a hooker for $8?"
Costs are relative, but let me remind everyone that the real cost of a hooker is 1/2 of everything you own in the divorce proceedings!
Dusty