Blogs from Lima, Peru, South America - page 183

We finally made it! The flight was long, very long. We both got only a few hours of sleep in Detroit. We are tired, cranky, but we eventually made it to lima. We hit the sack at 1h00 am. ... read more

Hi, This is our first entry so please be patient :) We are preparing our first trip to South America. We will be leaving for a month long trip to peru on June 12 and returning on July 10. We are so excited and counting the days until we leave. Personally, I am so nervous that I am forgeting something major but I guess this is just pre-departure jitters. We will be undating this soon. Take care everybody Alessandra b... read more

Tomorrow I leave Lima and Peru ... so thought I would write up some final thoughts, but first ... Spent the 2 or 3 hours this morning at the Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Antropologia e Historia Del Peru. The National Archaeological, Anthropological, and History Museum of Peru. It is a around a 10 to 15 minute taxi ride from Miraflores, and as I have probably made aparent before, there are plenty of taxis willing to take you anywhere. (As well as honking their horns for any reason, (and perhaps as an alternative to slowing up when going through intersections, or using indicators when turning or changing lanes) they also honk their horns to tout for business. Anyway the Museum was pretty good, covers some of the Archaeological and Anthropological history of Peru, and also the more ... read more

Moved out of the tour group hotel into a local B&B, still in Miraflores. The owner was really good and welcoming, and had arranged breakfast for me. (I did not have the heart to refuse even though I had already had breakfast). Really excellent service, he even emailed me a couple of days earlier to make sure I had my transport from the airport arranged. He gave me some maps of things to see in Lima, and even called a taxi to take me to the Museo de la Nacion. National Museum. Really good. Got a guide from the Museum (for 10 soles) who could speak English and he took me around the different exhibits. The museum covers the cultures prior to and including the Incas. It might have been a good idea to go on ... read more

Okay, so spent the afternoon wandering around Cuzco. Cuzco was the Inca Capital, and full of Inca palaces. You can see a lot of Inca Stonework, which usually forms the base of buildings, and on top you see Spanish Colonial architecture. When the Spanish arrived they used the original Inca work as the foundations for their own buildings, hence the conbination of styles. I have to say the Inca work makes the Spanish look quite crude. Nevertheless there are some excellent Spanish Cathedrals around the main square. The tour guide said that Cuzco was a city prone to earthquakes. When earthquakes occurred the Spanish architecture was severely damaged, but the Inca work remained in place. Had lunch in a restaurant overlooking the main square for about $5US, (if it was the main square in Venice you ... read more