Hotel Mariel

... , experiencing more strikes on the way. We finally caught a public bus to Lima at midday and arrived at 4pm, taking a transfer to the hotel and checked in by 4.30pm. Lima is known as the City of Kings and is the Capital city of Peru, founded by Francisco ...

... o Oceano Pacífico), praças bem cuidadas. Tem cassinos belíssimos, tudo quanto é tipo de loja. Guardamos nossas coisas no hotel e fomos direto almoçar para provarmos logo a rica culinária peruana. Não me recordo o nome do restaurante, mas comemos ...

... from a mid to high end hotel. A few others to check out would be Hotel El Ducado - www.ducado.pe , Mariel Hotel - www.mariel-hotel.com , Hotel Señorial – www.senorial.com and the Casa Andina Hotel - www.casa-andina.com Transport Cruz Del Sur is ...

... buses here are small shuttle buses, but you would be amazed to see how many people they can fit in to them. The Mariel Hotel is located very centrally in Miraflores, which is the buzzling second city centre of Lima. There are loads of shops, restaurant ...

... , Medieval Cities, highways......... Unbeknownst to us, there was a concert in the evening in the square starring Mariel Matheu - a french singing legend !!!!!! These are what travelling moments are made of - coincidences, adventures, and dicoveries. ...

... to bed early in preparation for another early morning and our flight back to Lima. I am now spending my last 2 nights in the Mariel hotel in Milflores with Amy before we go our separate ways (something that I am pretty glad of as we are quite different ...

We made it to Lima !  The fine folks at Mariel Hotel were there to pick us up right on time. We had an excellent view of the Miraflores area from our room. Our first adventure was finding the Cevicheria Del Mar ! Our first excellent meal in Peru - ...

... quickly. The traffic to Lima from the airport was quite bad and it took a little hour to get there. This time at the Mariel Hotel I got a much better room at the 5th floor – even without asking – and they had naturally safe-guarded my left ...

... the owners let them roam the streets all day, and then they just come back home for food at dinner time.  We arrived at the Mariel Hotel and put our stuff in, only for me to find that my shaving cream had exploded in the checked bag that I ...

... the city. We then negotiated for our driver to take us to downtown Lima (which can be bargained for S15 from Miraflores, as hotel reception told us this morning).  He suggested S20 but we were like, no S15.  He willingly agreed. We were ...

... breakfast and then take the bus over to the airport to catch our flight to Lima.  Once we arrived our transfer to the hotel took quite a while because we kept running into what appeared to be a race course.  It turned out to be the Human Race ...

... no idea it went on for so long.  That was a really neat experience to have.  After paragliding we returned to the hotel briefly and then went to do our last minute shopping, including one last trip to Kuna (the best alpaca store in Peru).  ...

... about 75 degrees and perfectly sunny.  Dave arrived at about 8AM and we set off in search of food and to explore the city. Our hotel was located in the Miraflores district - one of 43 in the city - which I gather is one of the nicer areas of the ...

... Africa doing research and some of my old friends that I still kept in contact with from UCT. We also squeezed in dinner with Mariel, the Fulbright ETA in Pretoria, while she was showing her boyfriend around the city: he had just arrived in South Africa to ...

... little more touristy and modern in Lima.  We arrived in Miraflores at 4:00 pm. We had found enough room in the budget for a hotel, which allowed us to clean up a little better since it had hot water! The weather here was hot like fire! We walked ...

... uneasy, and some money changes hands, but we continue on. Stop for a good sugar-cane juice, made in front of us. Pass through Mariel, a big port town with a cement plant, which is on a big inlet. This is the site of the Mariel boatlift. In 1980 12 ...

... , Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), Caleta Buena, Cueva de Los Peces, Central Australia, Jaguey Grande, Pinar del Rio, Vinales, Mariel, Havana) Chile ( Antofagasta, Calama, San Pedro de Atacama) Bolivia (border with Chile, Laguna Blanca, Laguna Verde, Laguna ...

So yesterday was a pretty relaxing day at the beach and at the pool like a sunday should be. Mariel came and picked my roommate and I up to go down to Patong Beach to explore which was really cool. I leared a lot about the locals and how to barter ...