After a long long day travelling from brazil, I finally arrived in Lima, Peru. 4 hours later than expected(poor carlos my tour guide had to wait at the airport all that time too) I make my way to the hotel. I was happy to see a bed! Unfortunately it wasn't for long as I had my first tour early in the morning the next day.
Off I went to get to know the city of Lima. Lima is such a big city! You can see all the colonial influences in its grand majestic buildings. We started the tour at the peninsula of Lima where you can find the sculpture of the kiss.
Then we head on through two of the higher end neighbourhoods of Lima, Miraflores and San Isidro. In this last one you find the Huaca Huallamarca, a restored adobe pyramid produced by the Lima culture and used as funeral grounds. It is imense! Three levels of stone, mud and clay, with a ramp leading you to the top where you could see how the tombs were used. These ruins were so well preserved they found a mummy in perfect condition.
At this site I also got to see a peruvian dog! Do you know the Egyptian cats that are hairless and ugly? Well this dog is the same... Hairless and some would say ugly. A breed that is disappearing so I felt pretty special to have seen one!
In this neighbourhood we also got to see the european influences, if you didn't know you were in Peru you could have easily mistaken it for England!
On with our tour... And now to the historic centre. A very wide main plaza filled with beautiful buildings, all reminiscent of colonial times. We visited Iglesia Santo Domingo and its monastery, that once you enter its cloisters, you stop hearing the busyness outside and only here birds... So peaceful.
After my tour I had to head back to the hotel for some sleep! In the evening I headed out for ceviche. You can't come to Peru and not have ceviche! So I ordered a mixed ceviche(it had scallops,octopus,squid, prawn, lemon sole, seabass and snail) and to go with it, I had a pisco sour(the country's signature drink). Might I say it was delicious! The fish and seafood 'cooked' in citrus juice, garlic, pepper, onion and coriander is a perfect combination. To finish off I was advised to try lucuman, a fruit that only exists in Peru(flavour wise, it is a cross between a papaya and a mango). And so I did! I wasn't disappointed! It was very tasteful and sweet.
Now for some rest before my next adventure!
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