Suites Del Bosque Hotel Lima

... followed the coast all the way to Lima and it was the first time we had been at sea level for many weeks.<br><br>The first thing I noticed about our journey was the endless sand dunes. The dunes were almost mountainous and mostly grey and uninviting. Along some of the beaches were shacks thrown together by some very poor looking people. I wondered for a while what their lives must be like with little or no prospects. Peru was definitely the poorest ...

... at some point - including the group of us with our drinking hats - courtest of the local media outlet who filmed us Gringos enjoying the festivities! I did win some contest, which netted me a great tee-shirt that makes me look like I am wearing Liederhosen (sp?). I intend to wear it on the trek!<br><br>The evening ended somehow at KFC...no kidding - that was Dave´s fault. My stomach is still turning at eating greasy chicken wraps at 2am.....

... br>On Saturday, I was up in Alto Cayma for most of the day. There was a meeting for the youth group in the morning. Then, there was an English class for the youth group and younger children in the afternoon. I helped the girls who teach these classes get ready, come up with lesson plans, etc. Turns out one of the girls who was supposed to teach wasn&#8217;t able to make it at the last minute, so I had to fill in. This was a breeze to ad lib compared to ...

So after a very long transit (5.5 hours from Israel to Madrid and 11.5 hours from Madrid to Lima) we landed in Peru.<br>The driver that was supposed to meet us wasn't there, and at first we thought it was because our plane was delayed in takeoff, but apparently I gave them the wrong flight number.<br>Luckily a nice hostel manager from 'Bait Sababa' was there picking up tourists and he ...

... 8217;t believe it, the movie wasn&#8217;t over, not even in the last 5 minutes! Then, to make matters worse they kept playing the movie without the sound. I had just adjusted to that when after another 10 minutes they shut it off. I guess I&#8217;ll have to rent it some day to figure out how it started and ended!<br><br>Lima is not at all what I expected and felt like a mask with two sides. When we got in we were greeted to dreary fog and ...

... do this to the tune of El Condor Pasa (which is a Paul Simon tune- wonder if he knows).<br><br>Someone important in Peru died recently (MJ notwithstanding). No idea who it was but when I was in Plaza des Armes this afternoon, all the flags were at half mast and then huge crowds started gathering, a huge number of full-dress military types showed up and a caterfaulk turned up too. It was a state funeral for Important Peruvian Bloke. I ...

... t know until I get back. Will I come home more compassionate for my fellow humans, volunteering my time, effort, or money to the less-fortunate? Will I go back to being the same person I was when I left, the guy you meet at the bar for a few rounds and a few laughs? Or, will I attempt to achieve more in my life, follow dreams and never stop improving myself? Only time will tell. Here are our underwater pictures from the Galapagos ...

... earmarked in our guide. Upon arriving at the bus terminal we called them up turn by turn unsuccessfully - all of them booked. Should have known, Lima's few decent places get booked out and the majority remaining have some fault with them.<br><br>And so we were left with the Friendship hostel, the worst place we've stayed in South America so far. It brought back memories of dimly lit dank places where you worried ...

... He was very worried about falling out of his top bunk but i told him he would be fine, the boat wasn´t even moving and he had managed to stay in every other night! He finally calmed down an went to sleep about 3am. Then 5am I was woken by a massive thud and there he was lying on the bags at the side of my bunk, he really had fallen out. I was a bit worried he had knocked himself out in the process and it took me a while to realise he was just still ...

... tóflugum og svo voru gargandi svín og kjúklingar í farangursgeymslunni thar sem bakpokarnir okkar voru. Ekki skemmtilegast a rútuferdin okkar! Loks komum vid í stranbae sem heitir Máncora. Sjórinn var heitur og hostelid okkar var ágaett, med sundlaug og stutt í góda veitingastadi. Hinsvegar var adeins of mikid af skordýrum tharna fyrir minn smekk sem er líklegast út af thví ad frumskógurinn er ...