Kamana Hotel Lima

We took a lie in today as a consequence of Adeline´s adventures yesterday. As a result we didn´t take the boat trip to the Balleastas islands to see the Penguins, sea lions, dolphins and birds. Afterwards we took a fairly uncomfortable bus to Lima. Our first impressions of Lima is that its dirty and has a substantial number of shanty towns, the largest of which houses 350,000 people. After we settled into our hotel (Kamana Hotel, Jr. Camana 547 Lima phone 427.71.06 or email reservas@hotelkama...

Landed at Lima Airport at 11:45 pm and scanned the crowd of "welcomers" holding up signs with the name of the person they were there to pick up. I didn't see my name on any of the signs, so I proceeded to wait for the driver that the hotel had promised me would be there to pick me up. After waiting for what seemed like an hour (in actuality it was probably more like 10 mins), I decided to call the hotel (Hotel Kamana). The person who answered my call did not speak English, so after 5 mins of ...

We had a few days in Lima before the tour started so we saw a few sights, but mostly we slept, watched movies in the hotel, and read our books in a little holiday away from our holiday. Just as well because the first week of the tour was non-stop action. We left Lima at 6am on saturday in Moose our tour truck/bus and drove to Paracas where we went on a boat trip around the Ballestas islands. Famous for sea bird Guana, the Candelabra Nasca line drawing and a sea lion nursery. Then we got back ...

Hi All,

Just got back from a ramble around Lima. Went to Plaza Mayor where the palace is to watch the changing of the guard, then to Plaza San Martin and finally to a 1500´s gaol to see how they tortured non'Catholics. Hmmm.

Have some pics so enjoy.

Looking forward to leaving Lima tomorrow - next stop Ballestes Island )poor mans Galapagos) and styaing at Huacachina.

Hope you guys are having a nice Sunday! Im still jet lagged to the max but trying to enjoy as much a...

After another appalling flight with Iberia, we arrived in Lima - the only other place on earth where the drivers are as bad as the Romans. Nevertheless, we arrived unscathed, and checked into our hostel, where the shower was a hole in the ground and the tiles were covered in, actually I´m not sure what it was, but it was brown. Tidy! We spent a couple of hours (James insisted) visiting the Spanish Inquisition museum, including the torture chamber which is filled with a collection of wax figur...

Well, this is Lima the capital of Peru. We´re sharing this visit with the 9 million people that live here in an amazing variety of accommodation, most of it pretty ramshackle. The journey here was through more desert but what struck us was the number of chicken farms stuck out right in the middle of nowhere - shed upon shed. They do eat a heap of chicken here, more so than any other type of meat (yes, that includes guinea pig)! They even have chicken sheds on the beaches north of Lima. The en...

We finally made it to Peru after spending the night in the MIA airport.  We slept on the floor of terminal J.  There was a flight to South America that was delayed so we watched while all the passengers broke into the coffee machine belonging to a restaurant in the concourse and left a gigantic mess.  I borrowed Skippy´s sleeping bag and actually got a good two hours of sleep - despite the PA system announcing the local time every 15 mins. We connected in Bogota, Columbia - where the local TS...

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Arrived in Lima safely and the plane trip wasn´t so long. However the airline also lost my bag between Santiago and Lima. It was a smelly clothes next day until they delivered it to my hotel in the afternoon. I spent the day seeing the sights of Lima, the hotel is very close to Plaza de Armas, the hub of the city. I then met up with the tucan tour guide and we had a more detailed city tour. Lima is a big city with many cars that drive like crazy beeping their horns the whole time, hard to sle...

Elloo... Making this short and sweet untill something interesting t write about comes up ! Had a pint with the family at the aiport as a veery nice slightly tearfull goodbye, practiced my haggling skills at dixons in heathrow airport...managed to get an 80 quid camera down to 50 then realising a cable was missing from the box, down a further 5 to 45 squids for a 90 quid camera ..whoop! PHOTO_ID_R=snv80039.jpg Slept most of both flights, and after some delays have been in Lima for the afternoo...