I have forgotten to tell you all about Santa Lucia. This is a beautifully landscaped park on a large hill, with hundreds of STEEP CROOKED steps to get to the top. By the way, the steps you see to the fort are not NEARLY all of the steps! Charles Darwin visited this place in 1833 and proclaimed it "most striking". There is a fort on the top and a few cannons scattered throughout, but the view is wonderful, albeit a little impaired because of the smog. In one of the pictures Richard is standing next to an Aloe Vera! HUGE!
Across the street is the Centro Artesanal de Santa Lucía. This is a rather large market with many stalls where local artisans sell their wares. Many nice and affordable things. Women will be minding their stalls and knitting something to sell at the same time. Beautiful alpaca and wool sweaters, coats, scarves and handiwork.About the pollution- this is one of the most polluted cities in the world, and, in the winter, the mountains are not always in view, and the air seems a little thick. I am waiting for spring, when, they say, the air clears. Hopefully
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