El gran viaje 2007

We´ll, Lima is our final destination and we´ve been acting like it. The last week has been all about relaxing, taking walks and eating good food. Oh and sleeping and reading and watching TV.

For our first few days in Lima we called a hostel in Miraflores home. We took our time wandering around Lima´s rich, clean neighborhoods, eating at fairly expensive restaurants and generally living the good life. We wandered in and out of department stores and we walked along the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Then on Friday we finally checked out of our hostel and lugged our getting-heavier backpacks to Sergio´s mom´s cousin´s house in Pueblo Libre, a residential area sort of between Miraflores and downtown Lima. Then we basically spent the next few days doing what we had done in Miraflores but exploring new neighborhoods. And sleeping in later each day.

We like Lima. It´s nice to be in a big city again, with the wonderful sounds of traffic people everywhere. True, we haven´t seen the sun in a week (although we know it´s still up there since it provides some light if not warmth). The food has been... interesting. In a good way, mostly. Sergio finally made it to Chinatown here in Lima after hearing his whole life that Chinese food is better in Peru than in the US (never mind how it is in China, and you´ll have to ask him for a verdict). And we both bravely ate anticucho de corazón (Peruvian shish-kabob featuring cow´s heart) at a hole-in-the-wall place around the corner from his aunt´s house.

Now that we´ve been in Lima long enough to get comfortable, we figure it´s time to move on so we´re getting on a plane (our first in South America) for a week in the Amazon. But then it´s back to Lima for a few more weeks of hanging out and eating weird food.