Maury Lima

Hi us again, Still in Lima and having fun. We are endeavouring to do our best to build international relations with Peru but my corny jokes are not understood by them , lose something in the translation I think. Lima is full of beautiful 500 year old buildings, churches, cathedrals etc. The place rocks. Very vibrant, busy, ratrace, like being dropped in a beehive theat got shaken, bit frantic but interesting. Our hotel is a 100 odd years old and very elegant, chandeliers etc and last night we...

Hi us again, Still in Lima and having fun. We are endeavouring to do our best to build international relations with Peru but my corny jokes are not understood by them , lose something in the translation I think. Lima is full of beautiful 500 year old buildings, churches, cathedrals etc. The place rocks. Very vibrant, busy, ratrace, like being dropped in a beehive theat got shaken, bit frantic but interesting. Our hotel is a 100 odd years old and very elegant, chandeliers etc and last night we...

Itīs a transit day with a 9 hour bus ride to Lima. The scenery is pretty harsh. Once you leave the city it just suddenly stops and there is nothing but desert. Some areas are planted with some sort of crop and you can see the rows of green, but the majority of the time it was just sand dunes and mountains. We followed the coast and when we were closer to Lima the road hugged the side of a mountain but there was just a sanddune dropping about 300-500 metres straight down to the ocean. Kind of ...

Had a city tour this morning. We walked around the main square and went into the Öur Ladies of the Rosarie Chruch for the Dominic OrderĻ. This church holds the remains of some Peruvian Saints. Went into the Convento De San Francisco. This is still a convent. It had a beautiful courtyard and the walls were covered in mosaics. The library looked like it could have come straight out of a movie and holds some 30,000 books dating back to the 1600īs. But you are also able to go underneath the churc...

First day in Lima, and quite relieved to find the hotel (Maury) serves breakfast. great sleep after sixteen hours flying...definately business class is worth it. Speed of going through airports, and good service- yeah, great. Sat with one American chap who didnīt talk, but drank quantities of Big Apple from dublim to Atlanta.Next step was with a jaded Swiss man from Atlaņta to Lima. He grumbled about the airline for an hour then mercifully fell asleep. First impression Lima after midnight was...