Jose Antonio Lima

We are hosting trips to Peru, Spain, India, and other countries to help Local Heroes improve the lives of people around the world. Join us in February to see progress on a water project in La Islilla, near Paita, Peru.<br><br>http://www.personalphilant hropy.org<br><br>Finally, all my traveling has turned into something I really believe in and can be proud of!<br><br>-Mark<br>

... Basically 25,000 people were berried under the church. You could see tons and tons of femur bones and a bunch of skulls - creepy but not scary. We also saw a library very old with 40,000 books in it - very cool. After that I had lunch. I ate a variety of Peruvian food - what I could couldn&#8217;t tell you but I can say that one almost didn&#8217;t make it down. It was a buffet so I couldn&#8217;t try things. I had to eat by myself. It made me kind ...

Thursday morning 8am....<br>One last call to Mon cheri and I am jumping in a taxi to CDG airport!!<br>Check in went smoothly and we were given very good seats at emergency exit doors,<br>Champagne gets served very easily and stewarts start to like the 3 celebrating frenchy!!!<br>We have a quick lunch and get offered somemore champagne with the staff at the plane bar!!!<br>By 4pm, we are in a veeeery happy mood and ...

... allowing me to indulge in KFC was suitable reimbursement for my efforts. Some may say that I could have done better; personally I was soon too full of chicken to care!<br><br>And so a trip to KFC making it into my highlights of one of our stops should give you a pretty good picture of what I thought about Lima. We cut our stay short by a day and decided to get on the road down to Santiago de Chile, where our flight leaves for New Zealand next week. It ...

... to Iron Maiden, ACDC, and KISS swerving through Lima´s crazy traffic. Currently we are at a hostel named Dragonfly. It is owned by a Peruvian man who spent a lot of time in Boston and Washington, D.C. Other tenants are from Florida ...a nice newlywed couple...and a financial analyst from London who decided to travel for a few months since he said he wasn´t making ...

... gleich ein paar Fluege gebucht. Alles sehr easy hier. Ja in zwei Stunden gehts zur Hochzeit von M. und L. in den Country Club. U. hat vorhin noch fest Kleid gebuegelt. Und ich muss mich nun auch noch in Schale werfen. Photos gibt es erst morgen. Die Kiste hier hat keinen Cardreader und meiner ist noch im Backpack. More to come. Ach ja, unser Gepaeck ist angekommen. Auch Dank L. , die bei LAN arbeitet und irgendetwas organisiert hat :-)<br>

... yet another floor to a hotel. We finally located the post office and mailed our cards. The stamps are beautiful; two different ones are required per card to the US. As we walked up a hill, we noticed shops selling bathing suits and renting toallas (towels). We discovered the hot springs and the name made sense. For lunch we tried some soup(Bueno) and pizza (Thumbs Down)(this is sold everywhere!). Bob didn't eat ...

... part of Lima which is very noticeable, lots of apartment blocks a fantastic supermarket and many boutiques and restaurants with a lively atmosphere at night. Not what we expected from others comments on the city so pleasantly surprised. Unfortunately on return to the hostel we discovered a girl in Jons bed who `when saw all his things on the bed didn`t go to reception and question it but threw all his stuff on another bed. well there was a mix up and the only other ...

... like this instead of going to see all the sites... no regrets, just a realization. I am leaving for Mancora (Peru's premier beach resort) on Tuesday (7/4), will spend some time cruisin' the beaches... will then go through Ecuador too quickly (proabably only for 3-4 days), then will head north to Colombia for the final leg of my journey. I leave Bogota the 24th, arrive in 'Burque the 25th. Weird to think that when Zac and i had to pick a date for our return flight, we did ...