Inka Hostel Lima

... climbing. We climbed and climbed up this pretty awesome canyon (it seems every canyon here is pretty awesome) till we couldn't climb anymore and once again we found ourselves having the good old chicken, rice, and potatos lunch. It did the job of getting us over the pass but dang it am i sick of it! After lunch we continued climbing once again up into the clouds. We all felt really good for being ...

... trip, as the English girl I sat next to on my flight to NYC said the exact same thing. Obviously such a repulsive concept to womankind!

This next story will only amuse practitioners of a certain German software company. At lunch at the Airport I was musing why German Swiss girls tend to be so much nicer than their French speaking counterparts when I noticed a middle age man to my left struggling with his laptop ...

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אבא- איך שואלי 01; אם הבשר הוא רק מפרה
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Ok, 3rd day in Lima and we´ve ventured out of Miraflores where we´re staying to central Lima. I didn´t realise Lima is basically built on the edge of cliffs, Miraflores is right of the top of very dodgy sand looking cliffs and its a fair way down to the water. But doesn´t seem like there´s too many landslides.......The buildings in central Lima are pretty impressive ...

... part...THE FOOD. Rocío and Manuel dropped us off in the the Mira Flores district of Lima which is on the beach. They gave us some advice in getting a cab back to the hotel and this small band of explorers took off on our own in a city of 9 million foreigners! Rocío told us about a couple of good places to eat on the beach that you weren't just paying for the view. After exploring a few places, we decided on Vista al Mar, a very nice and reasonable place for lunch with a great variety ...

... that we finish our bowl of Masato. Then, immediately after we had finished, there was another in my hands. This one we had to leave, seeing as we heard thunder in the distance and had a 90 minute boat ride home. Another interesting thing happen literally as we were running to the boat--the mother of the family asked my friend Kevin if he would marry her 12 year old daughter. This was eye-opening to me. This woman wanted a random American boy to marry her daughter ...

... because it became covered with dirt. The Spanish tended to build over religious sites with churches to help eliminate the old religions.

While there, we observed a small parade coming up the hill towards the Sun temple. It turns out we were there on a major religious holiday - the Soltice when a lot of indigenous people return to the old ways and make offerings to the Sun god at this particular Sun ...

... and his French girlfriend, who were so lovely and quite cheeky! We went to a relatively expensive restaurant with fantastic Peruvian food. to be safe we had stayed in a wealthy area of Lima (most travellers do), on the coast. It was quite a nice break to have western malls, supermarkets (finding this supermakrket was almost the highlight of lima!) and not to be surrounded by people selling tours and woollen hats ...

... We doze in Starbucks. I count face masks as they walk by. We spent the rest of the night crashed in a few arm chairs in the corner of the airport Starbucks. It was very strange, actually, to begin our great adventure in a Starbucks. It looked, smelled, sounded, and tasted like any other corner Starbucks back home, yet, here we were in Lima, Peru paying for our drinks in Peruvian Nuevo Soles.

Sunday we oriented ourselves to the neighborhood, bought supplies, and prepared for our rotation.  We had quite an adventure finding food and preparing vegan food from the local markets. Monday we worked with kittens that will be infected with sarcocyta.  So we needed to ensure that they were parasite free before they vet school could start the study.  We performed ...