Hostal Collacocha Lima

... to us so we just carried on. We watched a random bag sitting on the apron of the airport. Security constantly just driving and walking past, no worry about any type of terrorist attack! Strange that, in a country that suffers terrorist attacks.
Anyway, we board our flight to Lima. It was the longest flight ever I think. Never done a long haul flight during the day before. It's much harder. Especially when you've got a screaming child right behind you ...

... dune-buggying en misschien ook de wijngaarden te bezoeken.

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Hi everybody!

Altough we hade erased Lima of our list, we arrived there on wednesday morning. We are in Miraflores, a suburb of Lima. It feels like we're in a European city, except for the busses.... It feels really good to be back in a big city. We didn't do much in Miraflores, except for enjoying the citylife and the ...

... churches, and some decent food, but it is overpriced compared to the rest of Peru and you can't walk 30 seconds without being accosted by a tout. If we come back to Peru, we would take a taxi from the Cusco airport directly to the Sacred Valley and bypass the city altogether.
9) Aguas Calientes. OK, this isn't a tourist destination at all but you have to go here if you want to see Machu Picchu. It is a horrible town. All of the worst aspects of Cusco ...

... to arrive which finally did at about 8 PM after waiting 6 hours in total.

The six hours there were pretty much uneventful except at one point we heard a car skid off the road and crash into a bridge about a mile away. About a half hour later, this guy came walking up, stumbling and seeming dazed and confused. He didnt know what to do, he said he crashed his car and couldnt get it running again. We realized he wasn ...

... c we checked the guest book, and other than UVa students there have been less than 20 American guests here in the last year.

On Friday, we drove a few hours to Pichinaki (All the cities in this trip get gradually smaller and further out into the foothills of the Andes on the other side.) From Pichinaki we went to the farm of one of Jorge's (UVa's Program Director/Philosophy dept. chair) friends Juan. Juan had an 800 acre farm full of different bananas, passion fruit ...

... food type all of his life. Subsequent ceviches have not been as good. 2. TACA sucks. After paying an extra $500 to not fly an extra flight to Ecuador with taca we arrived at the airport 3 hours early after already checking in at their city office. We then waited in an express cue for 2 hours to check our bags. We were then told that they wouldn't ...

... world that allows you to see their collections! Which was amazing!

After I checked out the pedestrian street, Jirón de la Unión. I decided to visit Chinatown since I am Chinese. It was OK went to Chinese restaurant and tried their food....just say it tasted OK not the best but I was expecting though.

Took a taxi to the Lima Airport and gave the guy who agreed to take me there after three tries a big tip. Since, I guess the three rejects ...

It was still fairly early when we arrived in Lima. We got our pre-booked taxi from the airport to the hostel and went for a nap. In the afternoon we had a look around Miraflores, a wealthy residencial area where many of the accommodation is (including our hostel). There was a heavy fog so things didn't look their best but Miraflores didn't appear to have much charm. We'd only been out for about ten minutes before we saw a road accident! I knew the roads were ...

... Marchant ensuite vers le sud et le Parque de la Reserva, je passe par le marche noir Polvos Azules. Ici se concentrent des centaines de boutiques de vetements de contre-bande, de dvds graves, de reparateurs d'electronique mais aussi des vendeurs de produits hi-tech comme l'appareil photo (vole de toute evidence). Parmis les portables et les Mp3, je cherche meme celui de Lucie au cas ou... Ce quartier est vraiment plus ...

... occasions owing to a combination of factors: 1) Drinking makes you forgot to ask for no ice. 2) What is this in my salad? and 3) The bucket of salt water I swallowed when attempting to surf. Thank god for Keopectate. * I am a failure at learning Spanish. I've actually come to realise that I'm not really good at anything, with the exceptions of maybe school, because I am one of the laziest people I know. It was actually quite revealing to look back on old journal entries I ...