Blogs from Barranco, Lima, Lima, Peru, South America - page 6

Central Lima is pretty dead after sundown and our hostel was like a ghost town, so we decided to move out to Barranco, a suburb of Lima on the coast. A beautiful little town, however, we went from one extreme to the other. We stayed in what can only be compared to a frat house, with the lack of sanitation, lack of women and the gratuitous drunk dude passed out on the couch. Oh well. We spent the next day walking around town and going to see The Incredible Hulk. What a piece of shit! I mean a real mess. Can´t catch a break in Lima.... read more

This being the first entry I feel obliged to blog our means of arrival as well as our first few days in Barranco. Having flown for two and a half hours on a plane boasting legroom about three inches shorter than the length of your thigh, I was surprised to discern the words ´business class´ from the attendant who took our tickets on boarding out long-haul from Madrid. For some completely unknown reason we had been upgraded and spent the next 12 hours in luxury! Seats reclining to a fully horizontal position offering massage and memorising your most comfortable position, menus offering veal and tunabelly and hostesses offering unlimited champagne made for a surprisingly quick flight. Having enjoyed a wide variety of unexpected business-class experiances we landed and found a man holding a ´Bedraski´sign... We had ... read more

at last ! we are here, a day later than expected but here at last. the flight was really long but we survived. my one meal for the twelve hr flight was peas,carrots and greenbeans with some tea... yum yum. The stupid guy at immigration only gave me and péte 30 days visa even though we are allowed 90 so now we have to go to the embassy and pay for an extension muh, the ride from the airport to the hostel was possibly the scariest taxi in history. About ten minutes in they pulled us to the side of the road and both the driver and the guy who met us at the airport stepped out ... read any guide to peru and this is not good, having soiled myself thinking we were about to ... read more

We are leaving today! We have been in Lima, the capital of Peru, for the last couple of days. We are staying in a very wealthy area here and it feels as though we aren´t even in Peru! There are American stores everywhere, including Starbucks and Tony Romas, BMW cars, very few street vendors, and less amigos greeting us with a buenos dias. The city is incredibly divided between the extremely wealthy and poor, and it is a stark reminder of the reality here in South America. Easter Sunday was spent waking up at 4:30 a.m. to watch the procession of the risen Christ. The procession began after 4 a.m. mass with over thirty men and women carrying an enormous shining white float covered in waxed choclo (Andean corn), waxed grapes, hundreds of candles, and a ... read more

Well let´s see, left MFR 4:00pm 2/13/08, arrived LAX 6:15pm, 15 minutes early. Checked in at Taca Air and then waited for my 12:50am flight to San Salvador, arrived SAL 7:15am 20 minutes early, are we seeing a pattern of early flights. On to LIM at 9:05am, arrived 2:05pm, 10 minutes early. Who said flights are delayed, just lucky I guess. Now that the boring stuff is gone lets talk about Lima and Barranco a little suburb of Lima. Very pretty plaza with restaurants, cafes, and BARS, that´s what I needed, due to Heat and Humidity, get some moisture back this old body. After checking in at Safe In Lima Hostal in Barrnco, this place is great, they made flight reservations for my friend in Iquitos, who will arrive Thur.; flight Res. for both of us ... read more