Hola, So quite a lot has happened since our last entry. We've left Lima, which in retrospect was a shit-hole, massively polluted and smoggy and to be honest, not a great deal to do, whilst being expensive. Before we left, however, we made a quick trip to Lima zoo. Zoos are normally a form of paradise to my inner five year old, but this one was actually pretty depressing. Whilst I am not exactly the greatest champion of animal rights (bit of fur or veal anyone?) this experience was a little bit awful. Massive lions and tigers kept in tiny cages, looking bored out of their wits, whilst crap animals like the llamas (which, by the way are Peru's equivalent of the sheep, and who keeps sheep in zoos?) had massive enclosures to roam about in.
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