Samay Wasi Youth Hostel Lima

Well, we finally arrived in Lima on Monday evening after a mammoth and epic journey. I never understood why the flight to Buenos Aires said 15 hours on the ticket but a closer inspection would have shown a stop-over in Sao Paolo in Brazil. We stayed on the plane for an hour until more people boarded and the cabin crew changed over and then another 3 hours to BA.

We slept a bit though but still a ...

... a few hours in Lima, got a taci to the trusty "Plaza de Armas" which every city has... we found somewhere to eat and drink... wandered around a local food market... went to the S.S.H.H (the public loo`s...!) and wasted some time in an internet cafe... there was the weekly sunday special parade through teh streets of the plaza, but this time the militarty were throwing their guns up and ...

... countires don't but their customs office really makes it difficutl to consider staying in Peru for any lenght of time. If you are travelling dont have stuff shipped here and if you do, I don't recommed FedEx.

I can recommend staying with Tania and the Eurobackpackers' Hostel - its a great place and with all the help and support we were able to be free again...

coming up - Rodrigo and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...

Spent the day up at P-Chack last day of VBS. Have a great day spent with the most loving people. It's sad that we have to leave.

Yesterday we bought a sound system for the Church. Went to downtown Lima to purchase it. It was a scary part of town. But all was well.

Love Cindy

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... The square, in the middle of which stands a statue of the general, has a monumental aspect reflecting the independence of Peru . From there, walk down the Jirón de la Unión , the eldest street in Lima . It's a pedestrian street where you can shop surrounded by colorful 200-year-old colonial facades. From there, you will emerge in the Plaza de Armas , where the city of Lima was founded and the Independence declared. There you will ...

... of a tall, thin black man. I told Bob he needed to get new glasses as I had two weeks ago! By 12:30 we were ravenous; a stop at Pollo Tropical assuaged our hunger. It's fast food with a Cuban twist-wraps, soups and chicken a hundred ways. Good food. After leaving the car at the off-site parking lot ($112 for 15 days), we arrived at the airport. As I studied the signs in Spanish, I felt like a little child just ...

... et pars avec Juan, Camu et Augustin (un jeune de Lima) vers le sud. Nous montons et descendons des rochers dans un decors etrange et troublant de champs de pierres polies par le temps. Nous passons pres de la Laguna Cachu Cachu ou vit un brujo (chaman-medecin) avant d'arriver a la Fortaleza, des ruines pre-incas de la civilisation qui habitait ce plateau. Je reviens precipitemment a le tente prendre des medicaments a cause d'une grosse crise de migraine. Cela passe 2h ...

... need it. The village we were in needed it. After taking a local bus (which is an experience in itself) we arrived in a dusty, sandy place where the house, if you can even call them that, are made of wooden slats and tin roofs. Lidia looked at Zoe and I and said ´This is Peru.´ At the centre of all this is the S.O.S building. We were shown around by its president....different classrooms of children - babies, 2 year olds, 3 year olds. On entering each one, a swarm of children ...