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Published: February 9th 2009
Lima was fantastic and a great introduction to Peru. If we had more time we definately would have stayed longer.
We left Hotel Espana, which was very nice and caught a bus to a town called Pisco (famous for a drink called th Pisco sour, we are sampling them tonight in fact). We got off the bus to find that we were in a place called Ica, about 75 km past Pisco. No one thought to tell the two gringo´s where to get off! By the way, when in Lima, a little girl walked past us, smiled and said "Ola gringo´s." We got back on another bus and went back down the road to Pisco.
It´s a nice little that was decimated by a huge earth quake 2 years ago. Still lots of ruins and we were told that the government has been slow in dishing out the disaster funds to get the place re built. As usual, we were surrounded by hotel touts as soon as we got out of the car. We ended up staying in a great little place called Los Inkas Inn which had very friendly owners. Whilst in Pisco we had ower first taste
of Llama in a local place right opposite the hostel. It was very tastey, Amy likes it too. Roll on Guinea pig on toast! the restaurant lokked like someones converted garage but was quality.
We also went on a boat tour of Isla Ballestas which is home to loads of very noisy sea lions, bumbling Penguins and lots of birds. Lots of birds = lots of shite which the locals call guano. apparently its one of the best fertalisers in the world and it is harvested every 5 years , nice! managed not to get pooed on which was a bonus. We also saw The candelabra, which is a monoglyth i think? it´s basically a giant three pronged shape carved into the land. No one knows who made it or what it represents.
We are now in Cuzco after spending 19 1/2 hours on buses yesterday and overnight.
Off now for a couple of pisco sours! will let you know how they went down in due course.
ta ta!
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