On Thursday, Liz and I headed downtown for a bit before lunch just to look around and get out a bit. As luck would have it, we arrived just as the Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Presidential Palace was getting started.
The guard regiment at the palace are the Dragoons of the "Marshall Domingo Nieto" Cavalry Regiment. Every midday, Monday through Saturday, some 40 Dragoons, accompanied by the regimental band, take part in the ceremony which was established by President Manuel Prado in 1940.
This was only my second time witnessing the ceremony up close, and the first time I was a little kid, so it was pretty cool. (I might go back with a video recorder!)
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