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Lima
Arrived in Lima after a very early flight from Chile (and a very sleepless night). We expected a much cooler city, but were again greeted by warm weather. Lima is a beachside town on a top of a cliff, where most of the beach and city are covered in a sea mist all the time. From the beach it looks like you are in the middle of no where, when really …
Anywhere in the world...
Very sad to leave Buenos Aires, after 3 weeks there it was starting to feel like home. We took a very early morning taxi to the airport and the flight went ok. However, there was no one from our hostel to pick us up at Lima airport. Most frustrating after I had gone to great pains to arrange the airport transfer. We got an overpriced lunch to read …
Taking the plunge.....
And so after a long day spent in Buenos Aires, we took our tired, and incredibly minging selves onto a plane bound for Lima. And man what a city. Definitely nothing like we expected.
We of course stayed in the up market area of Lima known as Miraflores. Sure we are used to nothing less. Lima was a complete revelation, and quite …
Miraflores
Day one of our epic jorney has already been filled with changes of plans, and unexpected encounters. Once we arrived at Lima´s Jorge Chaves airport, we figured we might take a tip from our (photocopies of a) guidebook and catch the local ¨Urbanitos¨ bus to the hostels around the city center. We waded through the throngs of taxi cab drivers, trying …
Lima- the worlds most boring city???!!!
So we flew to Lima after 3 wonderful weeks in Bs As. It was pleasant. My overall impression of Peru is that it is simply inoffensive. There is nothing wrong with anything in particular I just felt that it lacked charisma or "something". That something is indefinable for me but there was just something "lacking" about where we were. It could have …