Our plan is to spend Monday sightseeing and then board a bus to Nasca on Tuesday. I had previously spent hours trying to figure out how to buy bus tickets from Cruz del Sur. Luckily, my co-worker Lilian called and ordered my tickets over the phone (she’s Puerto Rican and her first language is Spanish). We could only do this just a week prior to my trip and I was told that the bus company would drop off my tickets at my hotel – I just needed to pay the ticket courier cash.
We just ate breakfast (great fruit, breads, hot chocolate, pineapple juice) and our bus company, Cruz del Sur, just dropped off our bus tickets, so everything thus far is working out perfectly.
The weather outside is either really foggy or really smoggy – I can’t tell. I hope it’s the former!
END OF THE DAY
The coolest thing we did in Lima was visit the catacombs underneath a sanctuary. There are 25,000 bodies buried there. Unfortunately, no photography was allowed, but I promise it was cool. Our small guide (maybe just over 5 feet?) had to duck to get under the doorways and kept telling us to duck and dumb me completely hit my face against the doorway. I guess the Peruvians aren’t used to a 5’10” woman (or man for that matter).
We also went to this awesome park called Parque del Amor (Park of Love). It’s right on the ocean and the entire park is a variety of mosaic pictures, words and names in tiles. And, sure enough, we saw plenty of couples getting in the mood, ranging in age from young teens to the elderly.
We just ate breakfast (great fruit, breads, hot chocolate, pineapple juice) and our bus company, Cruz del Sur, just dropped off our bus tickets, so everything thus far is working out perfectly.
The weather outside is either really foggy or really smoggy – I can’t tell. I hope it’s the former!
END OF THE DAY
The coolest thing we did in Lima was visit the catacombs underneath a sanctuary. There are 25,000 bodies buried there. Unfortunately, no photography was allowed, but I promise it was cool. Our small guide (maybe just over 5 feet?) had to duck to get under the doorways and kept telling us to duck and dumb me completely hit my face against the doorway. I guess the Peruvians aren’t used to a 5’10” woman (or man for that matter).
We also went to this awesome park called Parque del Amor (Park of Love). It’s right on the ocean and the entire park is a variety of mosaic pictures, words and names in tiles. And, sure enough, we saw plenty of couples getting in the mood, ranging in age from young teens to the elderly.
Lima is home to a celebrity chef, Gaston Acuna, and we ate lunch at one of his restaurants, La Mar, and dinner at another, Gastron y Astrid. La Mar was an amazing, outdoor restaurant that served superb food. We loved ceviche, which is raw fish that is 'cooked' in lime juice. Soooo good. Some woman there kept taking photographs of my friend Jon. I think she thought he was some American rock star. Maybe it was the MJ aviator glasses? I can’t believe how cheap food is here… I think a full-course lunch (appetizer, lunch, dessert, drinks) came to around $20 a person with tip. So awesome. A lunch like that in San Francisco would have been triple that, at least.
Dinner was excellent too. Gaston y Astrid has a much different vibe – like a steakhouse in a luxury hotel… walnut paneling, round tables with white linens, armchairs. The food was very good, but I definitely preferred La Mar. Jared ordered guinea pig, which he found pretty greasy. It’s almost all dark meat.
We are leaving Lima tomorrow, which we’re all pretty happy about. Lima is probably the dirtiest/most polluted city I’ve ever been to. I thought LA was bad. We were getting sick from constantly smelling car fumes. I’ve heard that in the spring and summer, the air is clearer and cleaner.
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