Hurricane Pigeons

Cats and the City

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October 17th 2010
Some people said said Lima would be boring and a waste of time, how wrong they were. Lima has a nice vibe, it's the only capital city in South America that sits on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and like Santiago the Andes sit right behind it. We took a taxi from the airport through the colourful shanty towns and set up in a hostel in Miraflores that was more like a house and we were the on ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more