The fortress

On Tuesday we economic development volunteers got to spend a morning at the U.S. embassy in Lima, because Peru 17 (volunteers who've already been here a year) was holding their Somos Emprendedores, Somos Perú youth business plan competition there. 

The embassy is seriously a fortress. A large, rectangular, imposing, compound-encircled fortress - pretty much the only thing missing is a moat. 

Photo credit to Google Images, because, in typical U.S.-silly-security fashion, all electronics must be checked at the gate.