Lima

We caught another overnight bus from Trujillo and arrived to our hotel in Lima around 10am. We had a quick breakfast before unpacking our bags and chilling out before meeting up with the group in the afternoon to explore the city.

We walked down to the ocean through one of the districts, Barranco, to see some of the beaches. This district has some really cool street graffiti and artwork with lots of cafes. The beach has a lot of pebbles and have a very fishy smell to them!

We walked back up through Barranco and across the bridge of sighs where you hold your breath as you walk across and make a wish. A bit hard to do in the hot weather!

We then continued walking through the Barranco district and walked across town to the Miraflores district which is the expensive part of town. It is home to apparently one of the best restaurants in the world - unfortunately we couldn’t get into it! 🤣

We went to San Roman markets for a late lunch. It used to be a local market but now it is a two floor food court with lots of options for food (Mexican, Japanese and more!) It has a lot of cool artworks on the ceiling and walls. We went to a local park where our guide, André, bought us many different traditional Peruvian desserts for us to try including purple corn pudding and other types of cakes. We also tried a purple corn drink - chicha morada. Gab really likes this one! We walked around the park and watched couples salsa dancing in the park.

We then caught the metro bus to the national stadium and went into a park full of fountains which included a water show that had a short video of Peruvian history projected onto it - very cool! Lots of amazing colourful foundations and cool sculptures.

We got a taxi back to the hotel, had a quick call home and got ready to go out. This was the last day of the first leg of our tour so 4 of the people from our tour are leaving so we had a big night to farewell them. We started at a hostel which had a happy hour deal for cocktails - including chilcano (which is a cocktail of pisco sour, lime and ginger ale). After many drinks there, we headed to a club for dancing!Read more