Maria Angola Lima

... town of Lima later that morning and wached the changing of the guard at the Presidential Palace, lots of marching and band music, seemed to go on for ages mainly because they marched really slowly!!!!

Visited the monestary of San Francisco and took a tour of the catacombs where some 25,000 people have been buried over the last 200 years, we saw lots and lots of bones and skulls... spookily all arranged very neatly!!!

I had to go to bed in the afternoon, I was ...

... Zeit als einsamer Backpacker durch die verpesteten Strassen von Lima zu wandern. Zum Glück gaben mir die Jungs vom Hostel Condor's House, bei welchen ich im Vorfeld ein Bett reservierte, hilfreiche Tipps bezüglich vertrauenswürdigen Transportmöglichkeiten.

Der Taxifahrer war natürlich nicht dumm und hat den nichtsahnenden Tourist aus Europa mal so richtig übers Ohr gehauen, denn, wie sich später herausstellte, knöpfte er mir für ...

... we decided to venture over to Central Lima, the downtown area with lots of museums. We had the adventure of taking a bus, and then wandering (we never figured out where we were well enough to actually find a museum). Lima´s wonderful, in a word. Some part of me was expecting India, and relatively it is so so nice. We´ve been eating at little resturaunts along the roads. So far, I´ve chosen everything by either pointing randomly at something on the menu or ...

... This made great day #2 for the trip.

Saturday made for a very interesting trip to the Ashinikan village of Puerto Ocopa. Before I start telling this I should warn my parents that it might sound a lot worse than it was and that we had encountered nothing but incredibly friendly people during our time in Peru thus far. We all got out of the bus to let it cross a deep creek crossing, and were going for a nice stroll down the road to stretch our legs. All of a ...

... back home to Pachacamac before we got there, Gearson was not having a good time. But we were able to talk to Virgitta before she went off to school, and then Doris bought chicken for dinner. Yum! We talked about our plans for tomorrow.. and let me tell ya, its going to be a busy one!! Oh yeah... We gave Doris the 545 dollars our church had collected over the last few months, as food for the children, and she was overjoyed with tears in her eyes.. She told us that the last ...

... flights, the airlines entice a customer into making a round-trip purchase. But, I digress.

Mary and I were leaving Bolivia and heading to Brasil. Brasil is a mammoth country, covering half of the South American landmass. Given we only had a month in the country, its size and I knew I would return, we decided to focus our trip on the south-central Brasilian coast. While Bolivia and Brasil share a mammoth border across the north and eastern sides of ...

Hola de Peru - Today was my first full day in Lima. We arrived in Peru late at night/early in the morning and drove straight to our hotel located in the Miraflores district. The ISA staff met us at the airport; they were holding up these huge signs, I felt like a celebrity lol J The staff seems super nice so far. One of the guys is John. He is around 30 years old and has been to almost every ...

... edwin, a local guy comes and takes everyone out, on friday night we went to dragon bar, the music was ace, learnt abit of salsa and we both got attacked by a peruvian lesbian! Then saturday night we went to bierhaus but that closed pretty early so everyone hjijacked a local bus and edwin took us to a house party in somones front garden! Very random but really cool, chatted away to loads of locals, was invited ...

... line was the longest line I have had to use at any airport I have ever been to. Everthing looked expensive at the airport but I dont know cos I dont know the exchange rate. Can Coke $800, Bottle juice $950 T shirt $21000. I arrived in Lima at about 10.30pm local time. Surprisingley so did my back pack. There must have been a few flights arrived just before us so we had to join the newest longest line I have ever had. My imigration card was wrong cos the writing ...

... Adentro that is approximately 100 kilometers from Lima and is absolutely gorgeous. The first day was a combination of eating fabulous food, laying out on the beach and swimming in amazingly clear, warm ocean water. The menu included home-made ceviche, bbq and amazing desserts, and of course - rum and cokes ;-) I was absolutely exhausted after being out all night with my uncle Andres et al in Barranco, so I decided to take a little ...