Lima

Lima is disappointing, it has to be said. It seems to lack any real charm, appeal and history compared to the places we've visited so far. The buildings are square, concrete communist looking things, maybe that's part of the problem?

Yesterday we went for a walk around to see what we could find, and short of a few central Plaza's we couldn't find a lot else of interest.

The San Franisco Monastery was probably one of the few highlights with it's Catacombs where 27,000 (Lonelyplanet states 70,000?) people were buried, and today you can tour them (sadly you can't take photographs), but you can see the photo's of the other bones found under the Cathedral.

The other two points worth a mention are the woeful 'tour' we took on a landtrain. We waited 30 minutes, and after paying our 5 soles (their currency) or £1 each we were on our way to discovering Lima... Well 20 minutes later, we were back where we started, having driven around the block and been spoken at in Spanish.

Later that day, our luck changed and after a bad run, we were delighted to be shat on - Miranda took the first bullet, striking her on the chest. As I fumbled for a pamphlet to carefully tend to her (barely managing to hide my smile), I was struck, struck by large calibre (Eagle) shit... My hair, neck, and predominantly chest were soiled. Earlier I tried to hide a smile, and now I was fighting back tears as I raised my fists to the sky. The Peruvians found it somewhat funny, and well if I hadn't have laughed I'd only have fuelled their happiness.

Today is a new day, and we decided to leave this place in favour of greener fields, today we go to Paraças and it's national park. It's right next to Pisco (Pisco Sour) and while we also wanted to also visit here, we discovered Pisco was flattened by a 2007 earthquake - apparently 2 years later it's still in the same state. Back to our trip: we'll be doing 1 night stays in Paraças, Nazca, then Ica and from there onto Cusco, Arequipe and Puno where we'll cross Lake Titicaca...

Plenty more to come then, anyway Waffles and Maple syrup await, so I'll be off!

Apologies RE Skype, we've struggled to get onto it in the last few days, mainly due to busy schedule. Hopefully catch you up tomorrow night!

C'mon Leicester!!!


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