Blogs from Miraflores, Lima, Lima, Peru, South America - page 5

This is my last entry from South America :( As the title says, its the end of my South America travels, I have had so much fun, seen and done so many things and places and met some genuinely lovely people. But before I summarise, I'll finish my adventure for ye, 5th May 2015, Puno Peru Leaving Bolivia and heading to Peru, we went though another land border crossing, this one at least made sense, in that the Bolivia exit stamps were given in Bolivia and then we walked across the border to the next building where we entered Peru, it was then back on the bus and on to Puno to see the other side of lake Titicaca and to spend a night as an island local. Early the next morning, Ellie and my self ... read more

No, I didn’t misspell the title. When I last updated, we had just arrived in Lima after several adventure-packed days in Cusco. I’m currently sitting at home in sunny Bourbonnais, Illinois, but I would be remiss if I didn’t finish a final blog post detailing my time spend in Lima, Peru. La Ciudad Grande Lima is big. Bigger than Chicago. If you’re a consistent reader of this blog, you will know that I do not like big cities. Contrarily, my two traveling partners LOVE big cities. We took a taxi from the airport to our hostel and I just looked out the window at all of the traffic, huge buildings, flashing lights, and droves of people everywhere and I immediately wanted to go back to Cusco – the cultural, scenic, slower-moving, smaller city we had just ... read more

After struggling to get through this last day of work, Kevin and I were finally on our way to our long anticipated trip to Peru. We signed up for this 8 day trip with G Adventures about 2 months ago and these past 2 months I have been filled with excitement to finally get to see Machu Picchu. Kevin's girlfriend drove us to the airport Wednesday night for our 12:15 am flight on LAN Airlines directly to Lima. The LAN flight was very smooth and surprisingly, I was able to get a good amount of sleep during the flight. 8 hours later, we landed in Lima for my first time in South America. Obtaining our luggage and going through customs was by far the smoothest I have ever experienced and within 30 minutes of landing, we ... read more

30th August-So this morning I bid farewell to the gorgeous USA sniff sniff! Note to self....do not go out drinking prior to a flight, you will almost barf on take off! As usual the airlines fed me well and provided good movies. Although I was slightly devastated when I wanted to finish a movie on the second flight and they didn't have individual tvs :( I got into Lima in Peru at about 8pm and began to search for my taxi. There was a big sign saying 'official taxi' so naturally I went towards it. As I was paying the $55 I noticed there were about 4 other taxi desks and as I got to my taxi which was a fancy black SUV I realised I had been duped....oh well, you live and learn. When I ... read more

Gestern haben wir uns am Flughafen beim Zmorgenessen von 9 Personen verabschiedet. Der Abschied fiel nicht leicht... Nach vielen Stunden sind in Lima angekommen und haben uns mit dem Taxi durch den Feierabendverkehr gedrängt. Die Nacht war nicht wirklich ruhig, denn das einfachverglaste Fenster hat einen Spalt von ca. 1 cm und man meint, man schläft direkt auf der Strasse ;-) Heute haben wir in einem Museum hunderte Exponate von Kultgestände, teils 2000 Jahre alt, angeschaut. Danach ging es in die Stadt zum Palast des Präsidenten und ins Franziskanerkloster. Heute Abend haben wir uns das Wasserspiel "Magic Water Circuit" angeschaut und sind durch einem Wassertunnel spaziert. Morgen gehts weiter mit dem Bus nach Paracas.... read more