Stepping up to Inca heights
March 14th 2007 After flying in to the Peruvian capital of Lima from Sao Paulo, I was kind of expecting a bit of a culture shock, a real sense of arriving in a poor, third world country. This didnĀ“t happen, not least because my base in Lima was the district of Miraflores. Miraflores is so Americanised that I had to remind myself now and again that I was not in the U.S. My hostel was mere yards from a Starbuck
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