Blogs from Lima, Lima, Peru, South America - page 92

After landing in Lima last night I checked into a hostel in the district of Barranco. I was really overwhelmed about being in a foreign country. I don´t know that I ever felt that lost when I was in Europe. I went to sleep to see if I´d feel better in the morning. When I woke up I had a BBQ pork bun that Mom had packed me before I left and eventually made my way outside. I wandered to the shore, and around the district of Miraflores. After mustering courage to ride unofficial public transport I boarded a taxi collectivo (shared taxi) and proceeded to get out in the middle of a busy street (it was stopped at a light but I got out when it just turned green) where I almost got runned over ... read more

Hola Amigos and greetings from Peru! We´ve been here for just over a week now and it´s been great fun so far. After a monster drive from the Highlands of Ecuador we reached the border with Peru. The countryside really changed and from having been used to seeing trees and rivers, all we could see now was desert. It was definately not the image of Peru which we had in our heads. We made it to Punta Sal on the north west coast of the country and had three relaxed nights camping on the beach. To be woken by the sunlight streaming in to the tent and the sound of the waves crashing on the beach was cool and we could definately get used to that. It was pretty relaxed on the beach with the days ... read more

We´ll starting from where we left off . . . The washing of hair went well. However, the food guessing game, not so well. Quietly confident that we had it al in control, we discovered that this was not the case! Pollo, one would imagine means chicken, in any language, and often through this trip it has been . . . not last night. We are still unsure whether it was guinea pig (as this is the local delicacy) or chicken innards/kidneys . . . our stomachs held it down whatever it was, so all is good. Lima: Day 3 After another night (insert soundscape here) we managed to have a short lie in (considering our mornings have been a lazy 10am start, since holiday mode) then got up, sorted money, bought some staples and chilled ... read more

...30 hours later.... So, the flight was quite good, apart from the roof of the plane shaking...and we mean shaking! LAN v´s Garuda, its on! Nahh actually it wasnt too bad. Food was good. Ok, after a long time we got into Santiago, Chile via an amazing flight through the Andes. To arrive at "our" airport, as we like to refer to it, seeing as we were there for an 8 hour stopover and we became good mates with everyone. Never been so excited to see a starbucks frappuchino in our lives. All was good except Kath thought her book about guns and violence in Brazil had to go, so Allende was adopted instead. We officially arrived in Lima, Peru at 11pm at night, and while prepared for a difficult immigration process, we got quite the ... read more

So, i did catch my plane on june 15th, which is actually a sunday. i, unfortuantely, had been thinking that the 15th was a monday and did not realize i was mistaken until late friday afternoon. talk about a rush trying to get everything packed and ready before leaving. i bought some new sneakers but when i took them out of the box, the lady at the store had put the wrong sneakers in the bag. that was late saturday so there was no time to exchange. they´re actually pretty great sneakers so it probably worked out well. my 1st flight when from tampa to ft. lauderdale where i had a 5 and a half hour layover before my flight to lima. i kept trying to decide if i should stick it out in the airport ... read more