Friday, November 23, 2012

Short passage in Peru's capital : Lima


Very early in the morning we arrive to Lima and quickly decided to rest at bus station. While Janka, Phoebe and Rapha were sleeping Nuno could witnessed robbery in loco. Sort of a scam, a guy looked for people asleep. Found a guy, sat next to him and in few minutes went running with the nearest bag. A Peruvian just been assaulted by another Peruvian… welcome back to city life!!!
Lima is huge city. It has the same number of inhabitants as Portugal and double of Slovakia!!! Well, we decided to spend at least 2 days visiting city. Once again, churches were main touristic attraction what isn´t much of our taste. After accommodating ourselves and having a deserved night of rest in hostel, we went to city center by bus next morning (around 1 h of trip). Sitting in Main Square, we were asked to do interview. We were asked questions by 2 Peruvians who were studying English. :D What a funny experience!!! But the main reason of our presence in the “plaza de armas” was the change of guard in the Presidential building. After some nice music, there was the President of Peru: Ollanta Humala.
In the afternoon we met Phoebe and Raphael again and went for a walk in Barranco and Miraflores, the most quite and nicest part of Lima… it worthy to visit. We also walked along big part of the pretty coastal area of city. After some shops we finished drinking beer in a roundabout near our hostel just being disturbed by a police officer on motorbike J. We had to pack ourselves and move to terrace of the hostel because drinking alcohol on the public is prohibited. Thankfully to the nice officer we didn’t get any fine. :P
And that was it for Lima… early morning we took taxi to our bus and run away from city. We were heading to visit the famous Nazca lines.

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