Blogs from Lima, Peru, South America - page 175

Lima Peru: April 21 2006: First Day My flight was early flying into Lima at 10:30pm on the 20th. It was fairly painless, got some good sleep on the plane, and the Japanese couple next to me didn’t speak any english so it was a quiet ride, minus the crying, seat-kicking child sitting behind me. When I exited the plane I followed the signs leading to Imigrationes. On the way to customs I asked a man who had been on my plane a question about the baggage claim area, and we ended up chatting for a few minutes in line waiting to get our passports stamped. I told him about how I wanted to go to the jungle, la selva, near Pucallpa, and about how I had sold everything a few weeks ago because I felt ... read more

After an early morning drive to Heathrow i embark on the first leg of my 17hrs of solid traveling, the sun was rising as i waited to board, the same sun that i would see for the next 20hrs. The first flight to Madrid flies by as lack of sleep meant a long nap was in order. After a few hours wait the 12hrs of fun of flight two begins, alls going well until after reading a small book (thanks Gemma), listening to 3 new albums (cheers Andy) and at least 4 sizable naps i look up to expect to see the flight duration clock down to about 4hrs remaining, it said 8hrs 45 minutes, i lost all hope after this and even Steve Martin in Cheaper By The Dozen 2 didn’t help things. As we ... read more

Well, plenty of sunshine anyway, enough to get me sunburnt THROUGH THE FOG in only a couple of hours. You think you´re safe with SPF 100 sunblock and the traditional layer of Lima fog, but no... Still wearing the clothes I arrived in a number of days ago, as I put in all of my laundry to be done, and arrived too late to pick it up on the following day. Now everything is closed for the elections, including all of the laundromats, so I´ll just have to wear dirty stinky clothes for another day. I can´t even go and buy new clothes, because all of the clothes stores are closed as well! Nothing ever happens during elections in AUstralia (I guess that´s because no one really gives a damn), but here, everything comes to an ... read more

06 Abril - Lima, Ata Vitarte I was able to make a friend on the airplane, and she ended up walking me through customs, taking me in a taxi, and giving me a sofa to sleep on. My plane got in around 11:30 at night. So there I was, in a foreign country for the first time, with little of the native language to help me. My friend, Delia, tells me she is afraid for me, that there are taxi drivers here that will take you around the corner and mug you and that all of them will rip you off seeing that you are a gringo and presumably rich and gullible. She was right, they were even trying to scam her. Delia lives in Phoenix with her 10-month-old son and her husband lives here in ... read more

We have arrived in Lima, Peru finally after about 21 hours of flights and transits....I personally got about 5 hours of sleep and Josh managed to sleep most of all of the flights. We are fine and well in Peru after our long and tiring flights, and of course the taxi which nearly killed us...well i dont know how many times it was in the 40min trip to our hostel, but several times over we were close enough to lick the other cars (i can see why many didnt have wing mirros anymore). It was Vietnam all over again but more organised as traffic on our side of the road was all going in one direction. But people here dont seem to know what the 2 second rule is or what indicators are for!! but they ... read more