10. The Spring of Eternal Youth

From our lookout point, our mirador by the outer walls of the Inca sun temple at Pachacamac we see two ancient roads heading out from the maze of ramped pyramids below. One heads from the ancient complex across a dusty desert plain and through a gateway in a great adobe wall, headed directly for the ancient centre of Lima 27 kilometres away. A straight line following this road from Pachacamac will take us through the suburbs and straight to the cultural heart of Spanish colonial Lima, past the Basilica de San Francisco, perhaps the second most important religious symbol for the Spanish invaders, and into today’s Plaza de Armas with the Presidential Palace and the Cathedral.

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