Roosevelt Hotel And Suites Lima

... Years eve I spent in Larcomar at a club overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Peru is so full of women looking for foreigners, they even gave them their own name, "bricheras". Lots of bricheras, and they are super clingy, some bordering on stalker. Too bad most of them look like an ugly version of Pocahontas! Don't worry, I cherry picked the hot ones. I even dated Miss Playboy Peru 2008! So after a month, I decide I need to see Machu Picchu. It's ...

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... actually well worth the effort and money. By the time we left, Senora Sheerin was chatting away exchanging recipes for tortillas, whilst her husband was not!

We stayed in a suburb of Lima down by the beach called Miraflores which is widely regarded as being the best part of the city. The city centre was about 10km away and to be honest was a mixed bag of interesting old colonial buildings linked by numerous plazas. However, most of the city was pretty run ...

... pass. (Exciting evening #6)

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... breezes bring fresh air to the city.

I'm having coffee at CafeCafe in LarcoMar Mall in Miraflores. There's a glass barrier and only ocean beyond. It's almost as pretty as having happy hour at Las Brisas in Laguna Beach. There's some marching band nearby. I left the mall and partly out of boredom got a facial at a salon nearby. I was the only customer in the place so they kept trying to convince me to get a ...

... flight. Amazingly we were booked on the next day for a 10 dollar charge each in under ten minutes!!! We were very happy. We went for another wander, lots of stalls and people selling gum and drinks by the road, dogs wandering around and for some reason lots of cats in the parks! It was about then on the last afternoon that I decided my headaches and pressure was freaking me out a little so we went to the hospital near the hostel. Ki-ki was ...

... to us. It was our first flight in more than two months and the first since swine flu. Every official in the airport had surgical masks on; it was an eerie sight. Mary decided she would write a letter to the company that sells the luggage shrink-wrapping as it is an absurd waste of plastic. We paid our airport tax (a steep USD30) and awaited takeoff. When we touched down in Sao Paolo, we would be in the country that I have wanted to visit more than any other: Brasil.

... barricades at the Lima Marriott waiting for the Jonas brothers to emerge! We waited too, at a distance, for a few minutes, and silently, but soon lost patience and headed into Larco Mar. It certainly is an upscale mall, but as we aren't really upscale shoppers we wound up looking for lunch instead. The place we picked was Pardo's Chicken, with windows overlooking the foggy sea, lots of free tables and an enticing ...

... s had the best salad I have ever eaten. Sandboarding : Tomorrow I am going to Ica and dune buggy riding and sandboarding for the first time! Surf : I tried surfing again last week, and it was amazing! I got up four times and had the time of my life. It is so satisfying to be so in tune with your own and nature's energy, and empowering to be harnessing the force of the ocean. Taxis : There are way too many of them in Lima. Also way too ...

... night. No chance of a shower to freshen up, as the water comes in only 1 temperature (multo frio) and the supplied towels are already wet and minging before we get our hands to them. The standard high altitude breakfast of champions - 2 altitude pills, a cookie with an expiration date I will never live to see and a slug of water from our Camelbaks and its on the road again to Puno. A few miles out of Desaguadero and we catch our first glimpse of Lake Titicaca. In reality, not that awe ...