Blogs from Lima, Lima, Peru, South America - page 110

Miraflores is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. Known for its shopping areas, gardens, flower-filled parks and beaches, it is one of the upscale districts that make up the city of Lima. So we started the day with a good breakfast, the freshly made papaya and mango juice was to die for, very very delicious. We then quickly showered, dressed and set of to explore Miraflores district on foot. We were advised to start off by exploring Larcomar the newest shopping mall in the area (we love shopping) and only two block away, towards the ocean. We went around in circles for a while - unavailble to find this large shopping mall and our map was of no help either, we decided to give up and walk over to the railing and enjoy the ... read more

Loving Lima and Peru and everything that´s going on in general for this trip right now. New excellent guide, refreshing small group of 7 with no whining people, and very cool cultural stuff happening. Feeling super excited about the next three weeks and best adventures yet to come. Since I wrote I´ve had a massive cultural injection and found my dancing groove, let alone some good Afro-Peruvian music. Perfect blend of drumming African beats and salsa soul, have bought plenty of CDS to share for some loungeroom dancing on my return :) A few days ago we set off for some amazing Moche or pre-Inca Sun and Moon temples. It´s really incredible to stand on a pyramid, look at the chosen place of a civilisation at the base of a protective mountain and imagine how they ... read more

hola! today was my first day of school at san marcos in lima. i woke up at 7:30 and took a cold shower (which i didnt know that you have to turn the hot water on for an hour for it to heat up) had breakfast which my host mama made me because the professor called her and told her that she need to take better care of me. i walked to school around 8:20. it took about 25 minutes. we had spanish class at 9 and anthropology at 11:30. after class we had lunch...what a spread!!!! we had a 3 course meal at the university. appetizer a choice of tamalie or sopa de pollo, main dish: chicken or pork chop, dessert: an awesome cookie with dulce de leche and powdered sugar. i only took two ... read more

Today was out first free day. we just got in on friday so we actually got to explore by ourselves. i met up with tara, tara, jared and chris and we all went to 11 am mass at the cathedral at parque central. we were suppose to get up for the 10am mass but we were out late with our teachers last night. we went to this dance dinner show until 3am and then me, tara, and regina took a taxi home. well...no taxi driver knew where i lived and being that im pretty good with directions i kinda of knew but couldnt speak to them. i was so scared and the taxi driver was really mean. thank goodness the girls were with me. finally after getting a map, walking a mile, and 3 taxis later... ... read more

Well, I honestly don’t even know where to start. So much has happened in the past 3 days! My flight and airport time was seriously boring. I didn’t think I was going to make even the wait just to get on my first flight out of SFO. So, to liven things up I tried to get on the wrong flight. No, really, I did. The best part is that when the lady came down the line to check and make sure people were in the right line before we go to the front, all I could think was, ´who the hell gets on the wrong flight?!?´ Well, as it turns out, that would be me. I did meet Fanny, a super nice preschool teacher from Peru who now lives in Bay Point. That certainly made the ... read more