Today was day number 1! I rode a llama.
We found me a SIM card and figured out how to call between our phones, since Shay still has a US number. I found a little panadería to buy a hot chicken empanada at, and we didn't get completely lost. It was a balmy overcast day and was lovely. After a nap in the afternoon, we headed back out to visit the Parque de la Reserva, which has the largest collection of fountains in the world. It was an incredible show with 13 fuentes (fountains), some interactive, all of them lit up with colored lights.
Fuente Arco Iris (Rainbow Fountain)
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| Finally got the timing on this one right |
Fuente de la Armonía
Made of four pipes with directional spouts turning it into a pyramid
Fuente Tangüis
This one focused on the four flower fountains, which changed color and shape. I think Tangüis (Tangwees) was some sort of military personage though, since he got his name on the building behind the fountain and a statue of himself on a horse.
Random teapot fountain, not one of the 13. Just water coming out of topiary.
Fuente de la Cúpula Visitable
Many fountains had spouts shooting in the air and the water would land in a grate, meaning there wasn't too much splash from it
Fuente Mágica
The grand one when you first enter the main part of the park. There is a tunnel that takes you under a street separating the two parts of the park. so we did it slightly out of order. This fountain reminded me of the one at the Seattle Center, it would change height and shape, spouts would shoot up or out, sometimes it was colored up with lights. The center one was 80m high. It was beautiful.
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| There were smaller fountains all around the edge with little figures sitting near them |
Fuente de la Fantasía
This one was one of my two favorites. It was 120m long, 20m high, and was a light show projected on water, as the water was choreographed to it, changing all the time. We got there at just the right time as the big show was happening, I got some videos of it. Hopefully they work, if not expect youtube links later. The music was hilarious to us, it ranged from traditional Peruvian to 90s American pop. We got there as some crazy techno was playing and sat down.
UPDATE! YouTube links below each video just in case.
This one starts right after 'We Will Rock You' played
And then some Backstreet Boys 'I Want It That Way'
Other songs included El Condor Pasa, Abbas Waterloo, Beatles I Wanna Hold Your Hand, One of the John Williams themes from Star Wars or Indiana Jones or something (we both recognized it but couldn't place the movie, it was a lesser theme. Don't worry, I know both those main themes) and it ended with the Halleluja Chorus. It was like Vegas but different.
Fuente de la Ilusión
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| nighttime selfie! |
Fuente del Túnel de las sorpresas
This one was a tunel of water shooting up and into a grate on the other side 35m long. I wondered how many friends pushed their other friends sideways through the water. It would have left you insta-soaked.
Fuente del Laberinto del Ensueño
This one was my other favorite. Interactive maze of concentric circles with 5 jets around the edge shooting up and in, and the circles were separated by jets also. They were different patterns and heights at different times, randomly. So you had to try to make it through the maze without getting wet as the fountain would start up randomly. We saw a couple people time it wrong and get totally soaked.
Video of me and Shay making it out of the maze
Fuente de la Vida
Fuente de las Tradiciones
The figures in the fountain were indiginous figures
Fuente del Río de los Deseos
This one was under construction and boring. I think when it's operational there are button stations to control each of the little burble fountains, if it's burbling, being a big plume, what color, etc. It had a house thing with a river going all the way around it with little waterfalls, so it was still kinda pretty.
Fuente de los Niños
This one had 36 grate squares that shot water, had water land on it, etc. All lit up and changing, it was another you could play in. I think you'd get much wetter much faster with this one. There was a little button pad, though we never fully determined if the buttons did control anything, or if we just pressed them when the fountain was changing on its own.
We found the terribly marked tunnel under the street this time
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| World record certificate for the largest fountain place. |
Then to end off the night we went to a little Bohemian Pub two blocks from the park and had pisco sours, which Peru is known for and a beer to split. It was a lovely ending to a lovely day.
On the plane right from Florida to Lima I sat next to two travelers from Pittsburg. At the end the guy told me I was a lovely travel mate, and if their talking bird could meet me, he would like me a lot. I took it as the higest compliment.
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