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Published: April 21st 2010
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Hello again!
After a quick stop in Nazca to see the lines, we hoped on a bus to Lima, the capital city of Peru. There are many subsections of Lima, and we stayed in one called Miraflores which is kind of the restaurant/hotel center of Lima. It's a bit more developed with many North American chains and it also lies right on the Pacific Ocean making for great views.
For the most part, our time in Lima centered around North American comforts! Its amazing how being gone for so long makes you now appreciate malls and familiar restaurant names. Here is how our meals laid out for our first 2 days in Lima;
Snack after the bus ride: McDonald's
Day 1: lunch- Chili's, coffee- Star Bucks, dinner- Tony Roma's
Day 2: lunch- Chili's (again), dinner- ice cream sundaes (we were full from Chili's haha)
Day 3: dinner- KFC ( in case you were wondering, KFC isn't good in Peru either)
Our other meals were made up of more local restaurants, but you can see we went a bit crazy with the North American chains.
To go along with that theme, we spent our entire first day
in Lima at the super cool cliff side shopping mall called Larcomar. I (Greg) am really not a mall person, but this place was awesome! It was basically built into the side of a cliff, with some restaurants actually hanging over the edge. The main part of the mall was actually like an open-air concept, with only the actually stores under roofs. This might not sound like a great day, but we loved it! A good portion of the restaurants I listed above were in this mall- we were regulars for 2 days.
Our second day in Lima we spent mostly planning for our time in Cuzco (another blog). The following day we caught our 1 hour flight to Cuzco, spent 5 days there, and then returned to Lima on a Friday. We had planned on spending a few more days in Lima in order to catch a soccer game on the Sunday, but after some planning, one of the hostel staff flat out told us not to go. I guess the area around most of the stadiums in Lima is pretty dangerous and so we took his advice and decided against the game. Hopefully we can still see
a match in Brazil, it's a must for a South American trip I'd say. Didn't do much during the day, but at night with Evan and Mel's recommendation we went to this super cool water/light show called the (English translation) Magical Circuit of Water. This is the largest fountain complex in the world. Basically it's two parks joined by an underground tunnel to cross the street and it has 13 separate water fountains that a lit by different coloured lights at night. There is music playing everywhere and the largest fountain is actually synced to music and includes a laser show where the water serves as a screen for a short film. This was really neat, and VERY popular. Lots of people there, and lots of kids as some of the fountains you could run through. We spent the rest of the night at the hostel listening to a live acoustic band which was really good. The next day we hoped on a 17hr bus ride to Mancora for sun, heat and surfing!
Take care everyone!
Greg and Laura
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