Lima Travel Blogs - Page 4

I arrived to Lima at 10:30pm. It was a long flight, but I didn't sleep long. I could have done it, but didn't want to, hehe. It wouldn't be a good idea sleeping during the flight and be awake at home during night. It took me long to get off the plain. But it was nothing compared to what I saw. OMG!…

The adventure was getting over. I was flying back home, to my dear Lima. I was feeling happy, because I'd see my family and Gunther again, but also sad, because I didn't want to stop traveling, :( Well, I might be flying back to the States soon, hehe.As I said before, I wasn't able to sleep during …

Today we are up early again as we are now leaving, the end of the trip almost for some and end of my Peru portion.We board our jungle boat again and head back to Puerto Maldonado. It starts to rain abit and we put the canopy down for a bit on route to the van pick up.We get back to town, grab our b…

Well, we arrived to Lima early - around 4:30pm and they left us just walking distance from my house. Although Justin was saying that walk wasn't so short, hahaha. Justin's big backpack was at my house, so stopping there was a must, hahaha. Also he had to visit the HQ. What can I say? He was impress…

I quite like Peruvian food. The family I am living with has a lady who lives with them and cooks all of the food from scratch! Fresh veggies, fresh fruit... NO processed foods... soup made from scratch, freshly squeezed or blended fruit juice. I have been in heaven! :) How will I ever managed to go…

My 17 hour bus ride from Tumbes to Lima was actually very nice.  I paid extra to get the Bus Cama which had seats with plenty of leg room and the seats almost fully reclined.  They played good movies in English with Spanish subtitles rather than dubbed which seems to be more typical …

The trip was for charity and I was extremely nervous at first as I had not met anyone prior to arriving in London the night before we travelled. We'd had contact through emails and everyone seemed really nice, open and up for a laugh. On arrival, this was certainly the case so I soon relaxed a…

Did I ever talk about the parades.... well in our independence day use to have sorts of parades, the military (most important) and then the privates one. One important is from , well it used to be, the biggest mall from Peru, and the owners were peruvian.... since 2 years not anymore, but the curre…

FLIGHTS So we were pretty excited about leaving Mexico. Not that we didnt enjoy it, we were just looking forward to starting the next leg of our trip! We got to the front of the que for our flight and the guy at the desk informed us it was for the day before!! Oops!! We got new tickets which on…

6months has gone so fast.  The months have just flown by, one minute we was at the airport in Heathrow, moaning about the girl from the Air Canada desk, thinking she was rude and brash, then worried because my name was spelt wrong on the airline ticket.  And now we are 5hours away from Li…

Lima - The city tour It was not a city tour of the Commons, was a city tour that took us to know through the Lima sites that normally do not go the tours for tourists.   Besides touring along the main sites, the districts of San Isidro, Chorrillos, Los Olivos, Miraflores, and so on, we were in…

My first friend was Mike from Australia i met him around 2 years ago he invited to me to join this webside then I met Local travbuddy in Lima Like Yadira, Romain then we made a mini meet up with Soledad from US.2 colomnian friends Diana and Marcela came to Peru and we met all together in Romain Apa…

 During the trip back from Cusco to Lima, my wife got sick, the soroche, the high altitude sickness, got to her. We went to the pharmacy and got some soroche pills. Therefore we had a slow day and did not do too many things. In the afternoon we went to the Gold and Weapons museum. It is amazin…

Some notes on travellings with friends and being alone:Too often when travelling wıth frıends, it can become very comfortable staying close to the people you know well… which ıs great for some, but goıng it alone, you quite often seemore, get to know more people, jump outside your comfort zon…

Very cultural day today!  We took a taxi to the Museo Rafael Larco, a private museum with an outstanding collection of Peruvian antiquities - lots of gold pieces and a massive collection of ceramics from the various Peruvian cultures.  This museum also has good English explanations in the…