Blogs from Lima, Lima, Peru, South America - page 109

hi everyone, well hopefully Í´ll be able to attach some photos today. The photos take a while to load, so there are only a few. just a taste of our first ten days. So far it´s been a wonderful experience overall. We have settled into a hotel in Miraflores, Lima for the next few days, and will get practical things done like laundry and emails, before we head for the Amazon on 15 july. Everything we have been wearing is dirty and dusty from the Inca trail. Machu Picchu was stunning, nestled in the valley with mountains towering on every side. We have had some hair-raising bus rides along single lane dirt tracks up mountains, but it´s all part of the adventure. We were quite sad to part from the friends we had made on ... read more

people are dropping like flies here....i woke up today at 6:45 because the beginners can go to school early to get help from our teacher, she calls at 7 to say that she doesnt feel well. so i get to school at 9 and 6 people are missing becasue they are eaither vomiting or have a cold. my teacher then cancels class and moves our test to friday which is good because i havent started studying, he gives us a study guide tomorrow so i should be ok. then we had an hour until lunch which was optional. so i ran home and brought my close to the lavanderia where they wash my clothes same day for 3soles per kilo (i paid 8 american dollars) ran back to school and i ate lunch...i ate raw chicken ... read more

today was a little boring. i was absolutely exhausted in spanish class. the teacher would ask me a question and i would be like...please ask someone else i cant think this morning i just need a break! our history lecture was very interesting! we had a guest speaker that is an expert on the shining path. the shining path is a terrorist organization that got a group of people together to try and change peru through terrorism and violence. this event in history went from 1980 to 1992. abigael guzman is in jail till this day because peruvians do not believe in the death penalty. he killed over 40,000 innocent people. 75% were illiterate, indigenous people that mostly spoke quencua (not spanish: an inca language) and all of the supporters were mostly women and children and ... read more

Decided to explore and see a bit more of Lima, maybe venture into the heart of Lima, city center. We were told that it was about a 20min ride by bus. Not speaking any Spanish and virtually nobody speaking English, we thought it might be safer to catch a taxi. The cook at the backpacker volunteered to come with us to the city by bus - but we would have to wait for his shift to finish. Though we are cautious and suspicious by nature, we felt we would trust the cook to take us to the city by bus. In fact it was a good combination - as Anshu is the over suspicious and cautious one and I trust too readily =) We hung around at bit and talked to some of the other backpackers. ... read more

sorry i didnt get a chance to update last night. we went salsa dancing. well we bought a lesson. it was fun...hard though. watch out, one more of those classes and ill be on dancing with the stars! jk. on the 4th, we had a long long long day....we walked and walked and walked. yesterday we took a bus to the city center and we ate lunch at the famous hotel bolivar. it is like the breakers of lima. we saw miss peru of 2005 or 2004 dont really remember. then we walked through the ghetto and we took a tour through the old san marcos college. it was very pretty. it was used for munks to study and it is the oldest university in both south and north america. then we went to the city ... read more