Blogs from Lima, Peru, South America - page 184

The plane from Heathrow was delayed to Miami and we had to have a heated argument with US immigration officials to make our connection (put claire onto this obviously! they are such lovely people NOT) and even then only made it by running from one side of the airport to the other - most of the others trying to make the connection never made it. So we got to Lima, Peru, only to find our luggage was still in Maimi as american airlines (bless them) had assumed we wouldnt make it so not bothered to put our bags on the plane to Lima. So a day and a half in the same pants - nice! Bags eventually appeared late in Tues, seemingly unharmed but clearly gone though to look for god knows what. The luggage has ... read more

Well today, joined the tour that I had signed up for. We went for a tour around the centre of Lima. Even more crowds, noise, people, and, cars than Miraflores. Narrow streets, people selling pretty much anything on the streets. Lots of different types of architecture, colonial, neo colonial, copies of buildings in other parts of the world, buildings bought to Lima in pieces and reassembled here.... Went to the Plaza de Armas, people, pigeons, heat, crowds, honking horns ... I am blown away by the sheer number of people around. From the Plaza de Armas went to the Church and Monestary of San Francisco, (Saint Francis). Couple of interesting features ... catacombs ... with thousands of bones and skulls ... There is also a collanade around a garden with walls that are curved ... Not ... read more

Hi everyone out there who is reading this... surprisingly a lot of you from the looks of it and all the wonderful comments we have been receiving!! thank you very much everyone for your great comments and messages!! Being away is a real blast, but you can feel isolated and we absolutely love hearing from all of you!! Except for one of you... look Adrian or whatever you name is, I DON'T want a university degree for $100, so can you please take me off your list?? So stop emailing me already.... So to the rest of you, apart from Adrian, here's our next update. It's been a while because in Peru, you don't really go out after dark, and hey, that's when we usually did our blogging... so sorry about the delay. ok, gotta start ... read more

Vi forlot Sentral-Amerika den 25. mars med nesen mot Peru, og landet i Lima sent paa kvelden samme dag. Der ble vi forsokt lurt med paa en svindyr turistpakke som gikk over to uker, men endte bare opp med aa reservere Inka Trail og heller fikse resten selv. Funket mye bedre. Vi var tre netter i Lima, en overraskende fin by, for vi la av gaarde mot den gamle inka hovedstaden Cuzco. I Lima bodde vi paa et digg hostel i den litt finere bydelen Miraflores, og vi fikk med oss baade en solid dose sightseeing saavel som utelivet. Virkelig kult! Paa vei til Cuzco stoppet vi forst to netter i en liten by som het Pisco og besokte en oy som blir kalt mini-Galapagos pga sitt dyreliv. Interessent aa se, men ikke saa veldig spennende. ... read more

going below the equator makes one feel like time has roleld back... the southern cross, a familiar yet distant memory stands out, as do the vistas, aromas and langauge technology has permeated the rich cultural structure of the decendants of the incas - internet by the sol, high speed, thousands of computers, thousands of people typing their anxieties, fears and hopes into the vastness of cyberspace... miraflores, the beach community, tourism center, controlled by the police as to not allow the euros´s and yen and dollars to flee the poor yet proud country politically, ¨Tony¨my new friend and shoe shine specialist, informs me that at least fujimori was a theif, made no pretenses, but shared the spoils with the people. the curent president, a ´cholo´from the department of ancash, made promises to help the other indigineous ... read more