The tortora boats are from a local lake here and are traditional to the area.“Jose [Ortelli of Argentina] did really good job of coming up with the big concepts for all the jumps and a lot of really cool ideas,” Barry explained. “The tortora boats are from a local lake here and are traditional to this area. Each fence has a theme that is local; in the ring the church is the one that’s in the historical district of Lima, then the fountain that’s in the middle of the square, and the Presidential Palace is the third one.”
He continued, “They’re all very much related to Peru except the last fence, which is Chile-themed because it’s a Pan Am tradition that the last fence is themed to wherever the next Pan Ams are [in this case, Santiago, CHI, in 2023]. I did the course in Toronto and our last fence was Lima 2019. This time we have the Easter Island heads and everything else related to Chile.”