Sailing Away
Below is today’s Fun Photo Friday gallery. Click on any image to enlarge and bring up today’s slide show.
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Parque del Amor (Love Park)
Lima’s Parque del Amor, or “Love Park,” is filled with brightly colored mosaic tile and flowing lines. It is, in other words, something akin to what one would expect from Antoni Gaudí. I’ve featured Mr. Gaudí work before back in 2013, when I did a three-part series on his incredible masterpiece the Sagrada Familia (Sagrada Familia — The Exterior, Sagrada Familia — Interior Part 1, and Sagrada Familia — Interior Part 2). Some day I’ll have to blog about his other famous creation Parc Grüell. But all resemblance aside, Mr. Gaudí had little to do with Love Park other than possibly supply a little inspiration.
Parque del Amor (Love Park)
Love Park sits high above the Pacific, and the view from up here is spectacular. Here, for instance, is San Lorenzo Island in the background:
San Lorenzo Island
The beach below is also popular with the surfing crowd:
Surfing below Love Park
Next to Love Park is the most visited lighthouse in the area, Faro la Marina. Here you can see both la Marina and a paraglider framed by lush palms:
Paragliding by La Marina Lighthouse
The most famous residents of Love Park are a pair in an eternal embrace. The statue is called “El Bezo“, or, “The Kiss”:
El Beso (The Kiss)
Here’s another view of El Bezo:
El Beso (The Kiss)
I leave you now with two final images from the park:
Parque del Amor (Love Park)
Windsock
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El Circuito Mágico del Agua
In an upscale Lima neighborhood lies a park of immense beauty that sports a nightly cascading show of fountains, lights, music, and laser projection. So, in addition to today’s photo-essay, I’ll be giving you the added treat of a video of the park and it’s nightly fountain-and-light show. That video will be at the end of today’s blog post.
Parque de la Reserva — Park of the Reserve
The fountains are interactive, in that visitors can walk beneath the arched jets of a water “tunnel,” or stand amidst multi-colored columns of water that jut upward from the ground. You’ll see what I mean in the aforementioned video.
Parque de la Reserva — Park of the Reserve
The park is a big draw with the locals and incredibly busy even though this visit was on a Wednesday evening. We even ran across a couple who chose this venue for their wedding.
A Wedding at the Park
And then there is that beautiful crescendo of colorful lights playing against the fountains.
Fuente de la Fantasia — Nightly Fantasia Fountain light show
After cruising around the park be prepared for the nightly laser show using fountains of water as a cinematic screen. The show runs for approximately two hours.
Nightly Laser Projection Show at Fuente de la Fantasia
Below is today’s photo gallery. Click on any image to enlarge and bring up the slide show. Don’t forget the video that follows.
Finally, here’s my video of Parque de la Reserva and El Circuito Mágico del Agua:
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