Ok, so after 23 hours of traveling Andy and I have made it to Lima, Peru. We are staying at the Inca Lodge, ($12/night) in Miraflores. So far this hostel gets high marks, it's clean, appears to be safe and includes breakfast. The travel guide books advised that drivers in Lima are crazy, and that's a considerable understatement. There really appears to be no rules of the road, our taxi driver swirved from lane to lane at excessive speeds and cut across 2 lanes of traffic to make turns. I've only been in Lima for 3 hours now, but as far as I can tell it's a huge dirty busy city. It took Andy and me 30 minutes of walking downtown to find a restaurant that we didn't recognize. Very disapointing. I'm excited to explore the
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