Ever heard of Iguanas lurking the park carefree and playfully mingle with human beings? Well, I saw it for the first time only in Simone Bolivar Park in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. These iguanas simply just wander around, climbing up and down the trees and approach every people at the park as if they wanted to be cuddled. The photo above is very memorable to me. I was taking several close range photos of this iguana when suddenly I felt somebody poked on me from behind my ears. I thought it was just some of my ship colleagues but it turned out to be a baby iguana that jumped off from the tree and landed at my backpack. I startled and threw my backpack to the grass -. Gosh!... I was really frightened that I was about to run away from that spot but I pretend to look cool… at least..LOL... Manila Zoo also has lots of iguanas but sadly those iguanas lived inside a glass cage and not free to roam around.

Yesterday I was part of the tour to Larco Herrera Archaeological Museum, a museum established in 1926 in a renovated 1707 mansion. The museum displays the biggest private collection of pre-Columbian art that exists in the world. The museum consists about 45,000 pieces, mainly potteries that were excavated by Peruvian archaeologist Rafael Larco Hoyle. Rafael Larco Hoyle was first exposed to ancient Peruvian artworks through the outstanding collections of his father, after whom the Museu Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera was named. Rafael Larco Hoyle is considered to be one of the founding fathers of Peruvian archaeology. The museum is also famed for its biggest collection of erotic pottery.