Posada Del Inca Miraflores Lima

... would have it I have been watching the football World Cup qualifiers on TV which is a bit of a bonus. I even got peace to do it! ha ha.<br><br>It still seems strange to have nothing to do but see the sights, relax and be a tourist etc with no work and nothing else to worry about, with 90 more days of it to go!<br> <br>Buenos tardes for now.<br><br>

Paragliding today....whoa, what a killer thrill!! Seriously - this was 20 minutes of awesomeness. I have some great photos while hovering above the city and Pacific ocean!! This is something you have to try if in Lima.<br><br>I also signed up for a culinary tour of Lima, which took us down to the pier and fish market to see what catch was coming in for the day. We went onto a seaside restaurant to meet the proprietors, who proceeded to teach ...

... out. Even the dogs liked them!<br><br>What I didn&#8217;t realize after Wednesday, is that wasn&#8217;t the end of the festivities. I showed up on Friday, thinking it was just going to be another day, albeit my last. I headed up to the office to do some work tying up lose ends. Around one or so, my stomach was begging me for food, and I hadn&#8217;t seen any sign of Giuliana with our soup (not unusual &#8211; we often didn&#8217;t eat until 2 or 3, but I ...

... to keep us dancing all night. Well I don't know if it was that drink or what, but that's exactly what we did. Our friend Thirza had gotten us on a list at this place called Gotica, which was a pretty upscale club. It had two different sections, one of rock music and one more for dancing, and we entertained ourselves there until the wee hours of the morning before heading home. <br><br>Friday afternoon I also helped a friend of ...

... and nectarines?) and we hauled our asses out<br>on the bus to Paracas.<br>Here's a few choice factoids about Lima courtesy of http://www.wcities.com/en/guide/fun_fac ts/128/guide.html<br>Lima by the Numbers<br> Population: 8,044,000<br> Elevation: 13 meters<br> Average January Temperature: 23 degrees C<br> Average July Temperature: 17 degrees C<br> Average Precipitation: 7.6 mm<br> <br> Quick Facts<br> Major ...

... guide who only speaks Spanish! Our Peruvian friend translates, what a bonus. He also has three Harley's so is not perfect!<br><br>This site is relatively new excavation only starting 15 years ago and struggling for money, but it is now a World Heritage Site, so maybe they will do better. There is one huge pile of sand to move to find the history.<br>When we finish we have to go back a different route, we got our hands slapped for our footpath exploits. This ...

... startling advice and booked it to Arequipa. With a planned two day, one night visit planned we really had nothing special in mind to fill the time. The city was somewhat of a breath of fresh air both literally and figuratively. Aside from easier breathing, the weather was gorgeous (sunny and hot). The only "touristy" activity we accomplished was a tour of the oldest convent in the Americas. Nuns have been kicking in back in forced isolation within the ...

... either way some of them had probably never been off the island. We suspected there was an undercurrent of in-breeding going on, this suspicion was based mainly on we caught one of the yokels waving at a 747 airplane. As April began we moved on to the last country we will visit in South America, Peru, again. During April we are checking out the south of the country with Kat's brother who arrives in on the 8th. So with 1 week spare we took an 18 ...

... didn´t want to miss out on seeing some bird ****, so I went anyways. Surprisingly, I did not get ill from the boat, but the smell of the islands really made wanna turn my stomach inside out. You know when you are really ill and your sense of smell becomes so acute? Well, that was how I found myself stuck on a boat surrounded by mountains of pure guano. I had to bury my face the rest of the ride and try to peak ...

... we had to thumb down from the side of the highway returned us on the outskirts of the city. Quite a mission getting in to town and definately not where any of the tourist buses would go. We only got hasselled a few times and then we found our destination, a torture musuem and a french restaurant run by nun`s, neither of which were what we expected but fun none the less.