They have a changing of the guard ceremony here as well, with plenty of goose-stepping "stomp and circumstance".

Palace of Torre Tagle

Prime Minister Manuel Ulloa (cokehead, womanizer) was literally thrown out of this building during a coup because he refused to leave. He later married and became a prince.

Peruvian politics has many such twists.

In a pretty spiffy part of Lima. Taken out the back window of one of the places that I stayed.

Another neighborhood where I stayed. It used to be an oceanside resort, and was incorporated into Lima.

Enough room to take the servants with you for the weekend.

It was a dramatic one.