A few months ago I took some pictures looking out of a window on the third floor of our host family's house. Here are the views I captured:
We recently returned from a trip to Lima and instead of the picturesque views from the same window we found this:
The house next door has been under construction for quite some time and it appears the neighbors decided to put another floor on the house. They literally put a brick wall about three inches from our window. When I asked our host mom about it all she could do was shake her head since our window is technically in violation of some kind of code that prohibits windows that face neighboring homes. Only in Peru!
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Can't wait to hear more when you return. Safe journeys.
The neighbor was fully within his or her rights in building the wall. The host family should have built the building with a recessed section beginning at a lower floor and continuing to the top of the building. The problem is that unless they plan to do so, Peruvians build 'de canto a canto.'
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