Maria Angola Lima

We are staying in the Barranco district of lima which is really nice. Kay and I had two days and the first day we checked out the neighborhood and did some shopping...so much alpaca yarn...somehow we made it all fit into Kays bags...thank goodness. The second day we did a bike tour of the area, so fun, we rode our ...

Before setting off on our PLAY it Forward vacation in the Amazon, we spent a day in Lima. It was an exciting day filled with sight-seeing, shopping, good food, and fun cultural experiences, even a brush with tear gas! It was a beautiful city, and my group and I felt very safe, but were wondering why there were police everywhere...was this a normal occurence? <br><br>We ...

... is barely running, we join a happy throng of Revolutionaries who are protesting about 5 Cubans imprisoned in the United States. The protest takes the form of a concert with a number of different acts following one another. It&#8217;s not rock music but rather local dirges sung to a guitar, sometimes with someone banging a speaker with their hand for an accompanying beat. &#8216;Free the Five&#8217; they shout in between turns. <br><br>As a revolutionary myself, I ...

... Readings class got taken out by the instructor, Paco, the other night. He's published a book in Peru and has connections with contemporary writers from all over (for all you lit. geeks: he had daily physical and verbal contact with Borges, whom he refers to as "God", during his university work and he has met Vargas Llosa on various occasions ...

... on LAN. Still we lost one night and two useable days in Peru. Plus we have to fly directly to Puno. Our chances of altitude sickness, just went way up. Sea level to 11,500 feet in one day is not the right way to do it. Everyone is taking Acetazolmid and hoping for the best. Hopefully American Airlines will not affecting the rest of our trip.

... at a complete stop when we got on.  The buses are almost like a huge conveyor belt around the city.  Unlike many places in the US, you never had to wait more than a minute for your bus.  The street was packed with buses and often several going the same way would stop at the same time, all vying for the same passengers. <br>The people getting on the buses were from all walks of life.  Throughout our stay in Lima, we rode the bus several times, and it became one of my favorite ...

... though, so we passed it by in a few seconds. There was a park by the sea, though, called the Love park and there was a statue of a man and woman kissing. It was really pretty. Overall the bus tour was awesome! I'd never been on a double decker bus before. It was really cool. My only wish is that we could have heard the tour guide better. She didn't speak quite loud enough so I missed most of the descriptions of what we were passing. That ...

... able to exchange a few words: her name was Melia, she was five years old, she liked school and she had two brothers. When the bus opened for us, Bob got out a Twix bar and the dried corn we had left. Melia had gone into the courtyard and I ran to find her. Her bright brown eyes lit up as I put the bar and corn into her hand; she whispered "Gracias." We got on the bus and as we looked out the window, there she was ...

... te gaan, paspoort opgehaald. Een mooie roze, ongeveer zoals vroeger het rijbewijs eruit zag (een noodpaspoort is 6 maanden geldig, maar het voordeel is dat je em in theorie in 2 a 3 werkdagen kunt ophalen in plaast van de 2 weken die staat voor een gewoon paspoort). Daarna moesten we naar het centrum om allerlei stempels te halen zodat ik Peru ook daadwerkelijk ...

... 6 weeks), and stored my suitcase on rollers. There was a demonstation scheduled in El centro for the day after we arrived, and so the police were getting ready. But nothing really happened, so we didn't get to see a show! We found the train station, and were off on the tourist train to Huancayo at about 8AM. It was a great trip, and everybody had a great time.