Lima - Day 1
-=[ DAY ONE - Sat 10th June ]=-
I’ve been told by Kirsty to stop making jokes about bad things happening. After an eight hour stop-over in Santiago, paying US$18 each to use the LAN lounge and its facitilies (snacks, drinks, internet, luke-warm shower) we arrive in Lima just before midnight. Unfortunately our bags decided to spend a bit more time sight-seeing around the baggage handling facilities at Sydney airport. With any luck we will see them tonight. After a sleep-in this afternoon (and being woken by trucks working outside the hotel window) we went for a walk to Huaca Pucllana, a pre-Inca temple and sacrificial tomb right in the heart of Lima in Miraflores.
We met with the GAP group this evening, but it seems that we were a day early, and out group was meeting the following day. I thought I´d booked an extra day in Lima! We followed the traffic and bright lights into a bustling late night shopping area looking for a place to eat. We walked by Pizza Hut, KFC, Burger King, another Pizza Hut, MacDonalds, a Sizzler-type buffet called Norky’s. Eventually strolling up a dark alleyway we happened across Pizza St - a narrow paved walkway lined with potted trees and in-your-face hawkers selling their menus. We made a choice and had a couple of pretty good pasta dishes. With gratis limonate y pisco sour. Total of S/30, or about AU$12.
