Los Conquistadores Lima
Alzamora 260, San Isidro, San Isidro Lima, Peru
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Feliz Navidad!
We arrived in Lima late, around 2AM on Dec.21st by the time we got checked into our hostel. It ended up coming to $18 each for airport pick-up, a private room with a private bathroom and breakfast the next morning! Good deal, I think!
We slept in and toured the area a bit, checking mostly Kennedy Park, basically the main square in the Miraflores district of Lima and Larcomar, which is like an outdoor mall overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Really, really ...
Up the mountain and down into the catacombs
... siren sounds behind us. “Keep moving,” the patrolman shouts at the driver. We circle the block, returning to the exact same place a few minutes later.
After a 30 minute wait, we finally revolt.
“We are all getting off the bus and want our money back if you don’t start the tour right now” we threaten.
At this moment, miraculously, two more passengers appear, so with one more circuit of the block, ...
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
... I'd never know just across town people in shacks worry about where their next meal comes from as I walk around streets lined with the most expensive places in town. I wonder if the average shackdweller can even fathom this universe, but I ask myself even more if the people who live in this part of town even care their polar opposites exist just down the road. You know what...probably not now that I ...
Arriving in Lima
... in the morning. This morning we had 13 sweet neighborhood kids (ages 3-11ish). We all stayed in one group and sang songs, played bells, did science experiments, and played outside. It was wonderful to do science experiments with the kids. They loved playing with the magnets and figuring out circuits. You could tell that with a little time to problem solve, they really enjoyed figuring out ways to make different ...
Lima and Miraflores
... once we got to the area where we were staying we were fine. We stayed in Miniflores where all the rich people stay and all the travel agencies are so not a lot of crime around. Also a bit bloody cold to what we were used to going from nice 32 degree days to 20 degree days in Lima.
Our hosts at the hostel were nice, a minor hiccup where we asked for a private room but ended up in a dorm. They shuffled a ...



