Blogs from Miraflores, Lima, Lima, Peru, South America - page 13

Hello People, Hmm sharing a dorm is great fun, especially when ur sharing with young boys!! ah well , its an experience! Especially when you are trying to sleep after a super long flight , and the threats of the boys that they are going to come and wake u up to have drinks!!! After the long needed shower and the peace that followed after the departure of our male co-habitants, we managed to sleep. Thank God it wasnt very hot, but both of us seemed to wake up a couple of times in the middle of the night especially when people were treading around us. its funny how sharing a room with a bunch of strangers makes you cautious not to disturb them. Anw we woke up pretty early, got ready after having breakfast, not ... read more

Having spent most of my day in Starbucks yesterday blogging, I decided that I really ought to try and see more of the former 'City of the Kings'. I had walked through Miraflores in the late afternoon sun yesterday to take in the air. It was an interesting suburb, much lusher and greener than other parts of the city I had seen when I arrived. I escaped what appeared to be 'Gringoville' surrounding the hostel and walked down Diagonal and La Valle to Parque del Amour. The park was filled with people all enjoying the warm weather on the weekend, and was surrounded by tall palm trees and well tended lawns and flower beds. A huge terracotta sculpture of two entwined lovers took pride of place at the parks centre, and from what I could see ... read more

Peru has been an adventure so far! After our late night flight, we are greeted by Pisco Sours in our hotel and became fast friends! We spent a leisure ly day around Lima and then decided to get to the airport nice and early. I pulled out my stack of confirmations, organized by day (because I'm awesome like that) and handed it to the airline person. Typing. More typing.another person. More typing. "we don't have that flight." Chris and I, "?? But we have this reservation?" Typing, "we don't have that flight, but we will put you on lan, tomorrow". So hey, we were back in Lima. As we were driving back, chris was noticing the Pearl Jam billboards. Finally I spotted one too. "what is today?" "the 18th"... "I think that is what that sign ... read more

Determination by Bus Whilst trying to get to the bus terminal in Trujillo my taxi driver decided to take me for a joy ride on the meter, assuming that I didn't know where the bus station was. This is a popular scam all across the world and a particularly irritating one in my opinion. I bailed on the taxi and jumped on a circle bus that would take me in the direction of the terminal. After a short while I realised that I had in fact jumped on a bus going in the wrong direction around the city and I was getting increasingly further away from my destination. During the previous evening I had heard from a friend who was going to be doing a crazy sounding cargo ship trip like me, but from a different ... read more

Friday 23rd September We are sitting at the airport now awaiting our flight to Guayaquil. We will stay 2 nights there before flying to the Galapagos Islands. We think we have arranged a pretty decent cruise in Galapagos, and the last minute deals enable us to upgrade from tourist grade to a luxury grade catamaran for about the same price. Lets hope so anyway. Lima was the stop over we needed to charge our batteries. We booked a wonderful apartment in Miraflores for 5 days, which of course enabled us to cook every night. We have really missed that, so a good feed of steak and veg, pasta and garlic bread have left us feeling almost normal again. Our apartment also has a private elevator that opens directly on to our front door! We only spent ... read more