After a morning coffee overlooking the ocean at Larcomar we caught a taxi to Museo Larco. There was an attempt by a taxi driver to extort us by telling us the fare was 50 sols, a quick mention of "Uber" resulted in another taxi driver offering the ride for only 20.
This museum is a private collection, the work of mainly one man, Rafael Larco Hoyle. It is a beautiful museum and the ceramic exhibits are unusual in their quality, nearly all of them all in one piece. The museum also had some great gold and silver pieces, as well as a collection of erotic art (which you don't seem much in archaeological museums).
In addition to the museum proper, visitors had access to the storage rooms, with thousands of ceramic pieces. They were in groups, in some cases hundreds of similar pieces (e.g. bowls with cats on them) all together. Finally, it had a nice restaurant where we had a late lunch, before heading back to Miraflores.The taxi ride back was interesting, from the minute we got in the taxi drive didn't stop talking, and didn't seem to care that we may not understand a word he said. M had no idea about most of it, but was able to practice nodding in the right spots and appearing to understand (a skill which should also come in handy back home).
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