Pam & I leave SFO on April 21, 2015, for Lima via Miami. We arrive in Lima after midnight and are exhausted. We stay at the Belmond Miraflores Hotel arriving after 1 AM and then get up at 6:30 AM for breakfast and meet our Tauck Tour group at 7 AM. Our hotel is a five star property in the upscale Miraflores area of Lima and overlooks the cliffs and Pacific Ocean. Lima has a population of 10 million and is spread out length wise or 60+ miles along the Pacific Ocean. There is lots of traffic- cars, buses, taxis. Residents live mostly in 1-2 story apartments, many pretty old and dirty. Many are made of red brick clay or cement. We see many 3 wheeled Tuk-tuks like you would see in Asia. We meet Gaston,
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