New Corpac Hotel Lima

... for anyone!!!! The corn here is huge... a bit of a homony taste/feel. We had 2 tickets for free juice so we went and had that. Juices are big here. I had fresh papaya and Jeff had pineapple. I could get used to that for sure. For supper we ate here in the hotel and had incredible food; Ceviche, Aji de gallina, Lomo saltado. From my first day here I can finally say with everyone else... Peruvian food is AWESOME!!!!! <br><br><br>

... by the time we got off) and there were no screaming kids, no horrible music and only one person with a mobile phone going off at regular intervals. oh, and the driver wasn't drunk and didn't drive at 130 mph at every given opportunity. 8 out of 10 I would say.<br><br>Lima suffers from the same coastal fog as Puerto lopez and Montanita, so we're back to cool and misty for the time being. The suburbs of lima were pretty grim, and it didn't change much ...

... ik wederom dmv een koptelefoontje een rondleiding krijg in het engels. Teruggelopen richting hostal waar ik om 15:30 pm wordt opgepikt door een taxi richting het vliegveld. Aldaar aangekomen sluit ik aan in de rij wachtenden en tref een aantal nederlanders aan die een groepsreis hebben gemaakt met Foxreizen. Ook zij wachten op de vlucht naar Madrid maar aangezien er een complete storing is moet alles handmatig worden verwerkt. Kortom, een lichte chaos maar na een klein ...

we got to our hostal about half twelve friday night after 30 hrs of travelling. We skipped on joiing the other back packer on a night out and went bed but boy did we party the next night, we got up dead early and walked the coast of lima for 3 hrs where i got sunburnt it was so over cast didnt know i was buring, then we got in a good old trust bottle of smirnoff , we met up with some americans from hostal and went to a water fountain display late at ...

... have done a bit more research before embarking on this trip! <br><br>After lunch, I hired a driver to take me around (what am I thinking &#8211; I don&#8217;t have this kind of money &#8211; this ends, starting tomorrow). It was this old dude &#8211; think Danny Devito, but not quite as round and more and Hispanic rather than Italian. We cruised around in his little tan Corolla and up to the Centro Historico. The architecture in ...

We arrived in Lima on Tuesday morning and checked into our hotel successfully - which was gorgeous, very much a change from what we are used to - it had chocolates in the bathroom and the bed was so big we had to wave goodnight to each other!!! :-). In the afternoon we walked down to the Larcomar shopping centre which is really modern and lovely and did a bit of shopping and had a hot chocolate in Starbucks! Then we ...

... and jokes of KOB Live at MSG! Our ride quickly passed by watching terrible movies - Fast and the Furious 4 - and terrible music videos at an outrageously high volume. However, all was saved as we watched the Curious Case of Benjamin Button in the evening, which we both loved. We met Jeff and Harley (Oz), two long-term travelers who met at a jaguar preserve in eastern Bolivia where they literally babysat jaguars in the jungles. Awesome experience until they told ...

... pencil, pen, a DVD about PERU and the school, and a baseball hat!). It was so nice of them to do that! I took my oral exam before lunch. It wasn't too bad. They just asked us a few questions and we had to answer. I am pleased to say that I classified into the advanced level!!! Yay! That means I have made some progress and don't completely suck - only partly. We had some free time after the exam so we walked around a little mall area. We had our lunch in the mall out on a ...

... a VW beetle without a bonnet, you can be a taxi! Lima and taxis are a story in itself really. All the travel guides are out to scare you and recommend you only get a registered taxi from the airport, which costs you $50 US for a 30 minute ride. However, if you walk out of the airport into the public terminal, you can get a taxi for $20 US...and if you are a braver person than me, you can hail one down from the street for ...

... went to a very cool shopping mall which has an amazing balcony with views of not only the city but the Pacific as well. After that we went back home and had a delicious lunch, including corn.Everything in Peru is served with corn, and there are like 20 something different types of corn, its crazy! Friday woke up and having booked a bus for Arequipa for that night we began to pack and get everything ready. For lunch we ...