Blogs from Lima, Lima, Peru, South America - page 93

Central Lima is pretty dead after sundown and our hostel was like a ghost town, so we decided to move out to Barranco, a suburb of Lima on the coast. A beautiful little town, however, we went from one extreme to the other. We stayed in what can only be compared to a frat house, with the lack of sanitation, lack of women and the gratuitous drunk dude passed out on the couch. Oh well. We spent the next day walking around town and going to see The Incredible Hulk. What a piece of shit! I mean a real mess. Can´t catch a break in Lima.... read more

Eng ver bwlow. Lima niestety byla ostatnim przystankiem w Peru. Miasto nie rozni sie specjalnie od innych duzych miast w Ameryce Poludniowej. Tak jak inne ma sporo slumsow na obrzezach, dzielnice, ktore lepiej omijac, bardziej eleganckie biznesowe i centralny plac, ktory czesto nazywa sie Plaza de Armas. Na Plaza de Armas, fontanna, katedra, inne eleganckie budynki. W Limie ciekawszy jest Plaza de San Martin, ale tylko ze wzgledu na posag Matki Ojczyzny (Madre Patria). Projektant chcial, zeby glowa byla ozdobiona plomieniami (po hiszpansku plomien-llama). Jako, ze llama znaczy rowniez lama, peruwianscy rzemieslinicy, ozdobili glowe malenka lama. Niestety troche kombinowalam z moim aparatem i w rezultacie zdjecia sa bardzo kiepskiej jakosci. Najfajniejsze bylo to, ze moj towarzysz podrozy ma przyjaciol w Limie wiec wreszcie mozna bylo oddedchnac od brudnych hosteli; mlode imprezowe m... read more

Okay, so this is my first internet access since I arrived in Peru, All is good! I don´t want to spend too much time on here, I´m on a free computer at the hotel, and there is a line of people waiting to use it. I´ll give you some highlights. Arrived in Lima after being delayed for an hour at the terminal on the plane while Canada customs loaded off the baggage of some guy who the pulled aside on the way through the loading gates. I´ve got some interesting stories from the taxi driver from the airport, but that will have to wait. The joining hotel for the tour is in the Miriflores district of Lima, a very touristy, but very save district. There are police of one form or another on virtually every street ... read more

This being the first entry I feel obliged to blog our means of arrival as well as our first few days in Barranco. Having flown for two and a half hours on a plane boasting legroom about three inches shorter than the length of your thigh, I was surprised to discern the words ´business class´ from the attendant who took our tickets on boarding out long-haul from Madrid. For some completely unknown reason we had been upgraded and spent the next 12 hours in luxury! Seats reclining to a fully horizontal position offering massage and memorising your most comfortable position, menus offering veal and tunabelly and hostesses offering unlimited champagne made for a surprisingly quick flight. Having enjoyed a wide variety of unexpected business-class experiances we landed and found a man holding a ´Bedraski´sign... We had ... read more

Arequipa and the Colca Canyon Next stop after the Inca Trail was Arequipa, Peru´s second biggest city and called the "white city" because of all its buildings which are made from white volcanic rock. There are also 3 volcanoes surrounding the city, one of which you can see the top of (covered in snow) from the city centre. I was still suffering from a freezing-nights-on-the-Inca-Trail-induced cold but luckily the weather was boiling hot so we spent lots of time wandering around the city in the sunshine! And then we treated ourselves to a trip to the cinema in the evening and saw the new Indiana Jones. The film was pretty rubbish but its set in Peru and talked about lots of the things we'd seen or were going to see which was really cool. In fact ... read more