Hotel Bolivar Lima Peru

Lima, Peru A 12 hour flight on Delta brought us from LA via Atlanta to Lima. I have to say Delta are fine for an internal US flight, however if our international flight down to Peru was anything to go by, I'd steer well clear in the future. The seats ...

... the more memorable of these.  While in the center of Lima have lunch, a drink, or afternoon tea at the Gran Hotel Bolivar. For a real treat, walk through the traditional Chinatown area, and have lunch at Wa Lok. Peruvian Chinese cuisine is a little ...

... big wooden doors. Mike also managed to slap a waiter in the face during breakfast at our hotel (!)   The Gran Hotel Bolivar is brilliant (and a little like the hotel out of The Shining), at 20pounds a night, cheaper than most hostels and with faded ...

... monastery we whisked through the other main sights and squares in central Lima and then had a few Pisco Sours in the 'grand hotel Bolivar'. Claire avoided the raw egg and had Sprites due to a dodgy tummy probably sustained by eating the bus food the day ...

... Bolivar to try a Pisco Sour. Pisco Sour is a famous drink – somewhat like the Bellini is to Florence – for Peru. The Gran Hotel Bolivar is the first place to make this drink. It is sweet and tangy and is made with Pisco, liquor from Peru, ...

... streets for hours checking out the colonial architecture around the main commercial street; the president’s residence; the bar of Gran Hotel Bolivar which is famous for its pisco sours. Apart from some of main plazas there wasn’t really much ...

... about the llama crown, we headed to another famous landmark on the Plaza San Martin, the home of the Pisco Sour, the Hotel Bolivar. We snuck in another cheeky Pisco Sour, far better than the first, before heading back on our merry way towards Miraflores. ...

... problems. At the end of the street is the Plaza de San Martin where we took a short break at the Gran Hotel Bolivar and got a pisco sour, Peru's national drink made with their very own grape brandy. Our next stop was the Parque de la Reserva. Richi and ...

... would meet to discuss issues in a lower key environment.  Next, we went to check out the original Pisco Sour at the Gran Hotel Bolivar. This drink was strong and very tasty. After one we decided it was time to head out and check a local German pub. ...

... 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 bar of ...

... a scorching day, we were told Lima is the second driest city in the world after Cairo so we stopped for a Pisco sour at the Gran Hotel Bolivar which was very posh. Outside is the Plaza de San Martin with a statue of the chap. Also below it is a statue of ...

... of bunches of flowers from people giving thanks for miracles they had been granted) and having my first Pisco Sour in the Gran Hotel Bolivar.  Yesterday is definitely also to be remembered for the fact that I didn´t have my camera, so I need to ...

... have dinner at L'Eau Vive, a restaurant run by nuns who apparently sing Ave Maria at closing time, and a Pisco Sour at the Gran Hotel Bolivar. But as we are heading off to Pisco today we can try Pisco Sours in Pisco! Surely that will be good! And sorry ...

... to it and ask to have a go with the gun!! Our last stop of the day was to a fancy hotel to try Pisco Sour in the Hotel Bolivar which is the equivalent of having tea at the Waldof or a Singapore Sling at Raffles (done that!). It is a strong drink! Dad ...

... the alarm was supposed to go off at 2.40am so we could take the bus to Nazca... Before coming to Peru a few different sources told us Lima was ugly and just a 1-day town, but totally disagree with it... we were pleasantly suprpirsed from the hospitality ...

... fro tourists and the scenery was fantastic varying tfrom the high mountins to jungle and the coast. Now I look forward to Peru. My stay in Lima was only overnight as the flight was booked for the next day but a walk round the area I was staying in was ...