April 9: We hit the
pillow very soon upon arriving at the hotel.
The hotel is a lovely place in a quiet safe district of Lima. The included breakfast has a delicious spread
of what we’d have anywhere back home plus a lot more fruit: bananas, pineapple, papaya, strawberries,
melons and tuna. Tuna fruit? It’s delicious.
No trip is complete without forgetting something. I forgot a hat, and Dave forgot sunglasses. It
was off to the mall to get sunglasses.
The mall, within walking distance, looked like any mall up our way, with
a lot of the same stores too. Sunglasses? Check.
Hat? I’m holding out for a souvenir
shop hat.
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| View from the terrace on the top floor of the hotel. |
The CESO staff suggested we should rest up. Rest? When there’s a city of 11 million people to explore? We took an Uber to the Miraflores district to find the tourist sights. There we took a double-decker bus tour and saw several districts of the city featuring beautiful architecture, an archaeological site from pre-Incan times and cliffs down to the Pacific Ocean with a great surf.
A trip to Peru isn’t complete without tasting a pisco sour
drink, and Lima is known for its seafood, specifically ceviche. We were sure to sample both for our dinner
and we weren’t disappointed. Heading
back to the hotel we had a taste of the traffic that Elizabeth had gladly
avoided last night.
On this, our first day in Lima, we discovered it to be a
busy modern city. Tomorrow it’s on to
more adventures.
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