Grand Hotel Miraflores Lima

... experience - whats that called.....'character building' - Lima: The seafood restaurants will blow your mind away. Come to Lima, eat Ceviche, relax in Miraflores, drink Pisco Sours (local drink) - its all good - Surfing in Huanchaco: I've been living ...

... (who had also lost her luggage) told us we would be better off in Miraflores - and she was dead right. Miraflores is an upmarket suburb of Lima which overlooks the Pacific ocean and is rather fancy. Bit like myself... Now the way to Miraflores is anything ...

... middle of the old town called La Merced!  Although I was on my own, it was still really nice relaxing in the Grand Hotel Bolivar over a couple of delicious pisco sours (the national specialty, a white wine-based brandy) before moving onto the sports ...

... ; Later in the evening we walked to Larcomar for dinner by the sea.  It is safe to walk around the area of our hotel at night. Lima gets very little rain but is most often under a cloud during the winter. The temperature is about 20 C but very ...

... , to all the monuments in South America devoted to those who had distinguished themselves in battle by either winning or dying.  Miraflores decided to be the exception and they opened the Parque del Amor in 1993 on Valentine's day and the prominent ...

... We were with a Aussie couple, Fred & Bridget, whom we had met in the Amazon and they were staying the night in Miraflores - a suburb of Lima.  So - we just said to the taxi driver - 'Ok - Miraflores' to which he nodded and smiled and proceded to ...

... a street lined with only Italian restaurants side by side. Choosing a dining venue in this unique section of Miraflores consisted less of differentiating between the menus, and more of playing the waitresses outside the restaurants against each other ...

... a single vehicle in sight. Soon the little station wagon chugged up a steep incline and reached the southern suburb of Miraflores, an affluent enclave that segregates its middle-class residents from the slum dwellers of the north side. Indeed, instead ...

... le Malecón, longe la mer en surplomb d’une falaise abrupte. Je remonte vers le nord et le quartier de Miraflores. Malgré la brume, le paysage est saisissant. Moi qui adore les classements, je me dis que cette course va ...

... . Advising us that the police in Central Lima were corrupted, they told us to go to the police station in Miraflores - the friendlier neighbouhood where we were staying. Upon reflection, we really should have gone with Oscar! Not wanting this ...

... to apply for graduate programs in the US or UK. After dinner we went to the old gypsie district of Barranco, north of Lima and Miraflores along the coast, before they returned me to my hostel. Thursday I spent talking to a variety of hostel guests, ...

... partout (les women sont canons). A 14 h change mon billet pour le 1er novembre pour 100$ en plus, soit 325 soles. Retourne a Miraflores me balader et rencontre un mec qui me donne une carte d'un tatoueur perceur. Il est italien. Il me donne des ...

... by semi-desert. The next day after we had had breakfast we went for a walk along the seafront, the area of Miraflores is an upmarket area of Lima where 80% of the cities hotels are located. It feels very safe to walk around the main drag being Avenue ...

... already been in Peru for a month. We went back to “The Flying Dog,” which is a hostel located in the Miraflores district of Lima. I had never been in a hostel before, so it was all a very interesting experience. ...

... going, which i didn´t and hence walked around in circles far too often for my liking. That said, the suburbs are grand, especially Barranco, Miraflores and San Isidro. Decided to check the centre for one last time and caught the changing of the guard. ...

... aux vertues divines). Je passerai enfin une journee a parcourir les banlieux bobo du bord de mer, a savoir Miraflores et Barranco. Jolies maisons coloniales, architecture art-deco Miamienne, croisette avec restaurants faussement chics a n'en plus ...

... resto qui sert du poulet et du bœuf grillés Mmm trop bon. L'après midi nous visitons le centre de Lima avec sa place d'Armes et ....pas grand chose. Du coup retour à l'hôtel pour faire un peu d'internet et se remettre du décalage horaire (c'est ...

... in the glass. We went into the centre of Lima today (bravely catching a local chaotic bus) and had Pisco Sours at the Grand Hotel Bolivar, which is apparently where they were invented, or at least popularised. It was strange sitting in a bar full of ...

... .  Maybe after a couple of weeks here we’d get it but for the first-timer in Lima taxis ($3 a ride) are the way to go.  The Miraflores district, where we have been staying, is beautiful – very nice colonial homes/mansions, nice parks ...

... of the different cultural and religious influences over the generations.  The difference was obvious as we took a taxi from Lima airport to our hotel in Miraflores, an affluent  suburb of the city. We passed shanty towns and the cars, buses etc. ...