Lima Time!

Hi everyone. After a fairly long flight we made it to Lima, Peru. Here is what greeted us when we landed. So far the weather has been great (better than usual supposedly) in the low 80s and sunny, with the air surprisingly clearer than we expected. Our taxi driver Eduardo took us to our very quaint hotel in Miraflores, an upscale outer district of Lima, on the coast. Click ´read more´for the rest.

So we went from this:

To this:
In about 14 hours. After we checked in, we walked arond the central Miraflores area checking out the main square and the various shops. Deb was able to hold off buying anyting for the first day. Not that she didn´t want to. Later that evening we walked down to the coast. Miraflores borders the ocean with very steep cliffs so there are very nice views over the ocean. There is actually a mall built into the cliffs. It´s a typically modern mall so thankfully they found a way to build it below the top level of the cliff so it does not obscure the view from the street. Otherwise we would have had too look past signs for Hooters and Tony Roma´s. Seroiusly. At one of the mall cafes we enjoyed our first Pisco Sour - the national drink of Peru.

As you can see, even SpongeBob likes it.

We then made our way back to a restaurant near our hotel and had a delicious dinner. We´ll have more to post on Lima soon, but we have a 3am wakeup call for our flight to Lake Titicaca so we are going to cut it short for now. We´re spending Tuesday night on an island in Lake Titicaca in a guest house of the indigenous people. Needless to say there is no internet access so don´t expect to hear from us until Wed evening at the earliest. Thanks for the great recommendation on the hotel Amy.