Jun 23, 2013 - Un día en Lima

Mañana vamos a Lima para comprar muchas en el mercado. Probaré muchas comidas de Perú incluyendo ceviche. No me gusta pescado pero con suerte me gusta ceviche. Quiero comprar muchas frutas de las tropicales. Compraré recuerdos por mi familia y mis amigos. Voy a tomar muchas fotos de la cuidad. Visitaré muchas monumentos y museos. Vamos a asistir a una misa en la Catedral de Lima. Me encanta la arquitectura de le edificio. ¡Estoy excitado!

Jun 22, 2013 - El campo de las llamas y las alpacas

Hoy hemos trabajando en un campo de llamas y alpacas. Se cepillo la lana de las llamas y las alpacas. Cuando uno llama escupe en la cara de mi amigo, nos reímos hasta que me duele el estomago. Después de nos reímos, caminar en un montón de caca. No se río entonces. Para almuerzo como mucha comida nuevo. Pruebo un escarabajo y no me gusta. Bebo mucha agua para limpiar el sabor.

Jun 21, 2013 - Machu Picchu

Ayer mis amigos y yo escalamos las montañas y llegamos en Machu Picchu, una cuidad de los incas. Exploré en los edificios y los templos. Estudié las ruinas y las estatuas de los dioses Viracocha, Inti, y Pachamama. Tengamos un siento de sobrecogimiento. Había muchas escalaras para caminar y estuvimos cansados. Cuando la noche vino, nosotros fuimos al campamento. Cenamos una comida gigante. Yo dormí bien.

May 22, 2013 - All About Peruvian Food

Today our sightseeing was all about food. We were taken out for the day by a friend of Barbara Hood and Dick Zapata, my renters back in Cuenca. Janet and her daughter Shanell met us at the hotel. We are headed for the Chinatown of Lima for lunch. Barrio Chino is the second largest Chinatown in the Americas. Only San Francisco´s is larger. It´s famous for its restaurants that fuse Cantonese cuisine with Peruvian ingredients. We enjoyed a huge lunch at San Joy Lao on Jr. Ucayali a busy street in the heart of Chinatown. There are more than 15...

May 21, 2013 - Larcomar Mall

We met the hospitality rep at Hotel Continental this morning. Michel gave us tips on what tourist attractions to visit in downtown Lima. He also explained the Metropolitana electric bus system and how we could use it to get quickly to Miraflores for the day. He even loaned us a prepaid bus card along with his instructions. We easily found the bus stop and visited Larcomar Mall. What a view we had of the Pacific from the cliffs of Mirasoles. Larcomar Mall is an upscale 3-level mall with clothing and shoe stores along with Wong Supermarket...

May 19, 2013 - I'm in a period of transition

I have a new job! And I still have an old job. I took a trip out to Urubamba on Friday to meet with Elise again (she’s the one who set up and runs the school), and to see the school and meet some of the teachers and other staff. It all went well… So, now I will be working for a school called El Arte Sano. Getting there wasn’t too difficult. I had been told where to catch a Collectivo – one of those mini-vans they use as buses. It is a street called Pavitos – apparently Collectivos just park there and leave from there once they are full. I...

May 18, 2013 - Huancayo Bus Adventure

It was a long, long day on a very plush Oltursa bus which took us to Huancayo. This mid-size city has been described as the wild, wild west of Peru. It is known for its Sunday market which is a colorful affair with many indigenous coming in from small villages in the Andes to sell their wares. I think that´s where we will spend Sunday afternoon. Other than thinking this trip would put us on our way south toward Cusco and beyond, there was really no reason to come to this city. We were hoodwinked into believing it was of some interest by a...

May 17, 2013 - Lima City Tour and Larco Museum

LindaRose and I are ready to hit the streets after a mini-breakfast at Hitchhikers Hostel. We stopped at Haiti, a popular coffee shop with outdoor seating that´s been in business in Lima for 50 years, for a more substantial bacon and ham and eggs breakfast. Then we shopped until the Mirabus took us on a 5-hour double-decker bus tour of the city of Lima which cost S/.60 and well worth it. We also got a guided tour of the Larco Museum. Larco´s collection consists of 50,000 pieces and is the largest pre-Colombian art collection in the world....

May 16, 2013 - Peru, Here I Come!

I arrived in Lima, Peru, at 8 AM and was met by a driver from Hitchhikers Hostel. I spent the day learning my way around the Miraflores section of town where our hotel is located. At 10:30 PM LindaRose Richardson arrived at the airport. I bravely took a S/.2 combi van back to the airport to meet her and have a welcome drink with her. The national drink of Peru is the Pisco Sour so we quickly found a bar in the airport and tasted the first of many on this trip. www.hhikersperu.com Exchange rate is $1 USD equals S/2.65 (Peruvian Soles) Double...

May 15, 2013 - grrrrrrr

well i have tons of braw pics to go up but alas the wifi, like every other service in this particular town, is a steaming pile of shite. so ill rant about it instead. amazing, breathtaking place, there honestly arent the words to describe it.....until i switch my attention from the surroundings to the amenities. but first things first....amazing day yesterday getting from cuzco to here. we ended up hiring the dude who drove us from cuzco airport to the hotel (great guy, half inca half spanish, name...wilbert o.O) to bring us to...

May 14, 2013 - Lima to Cuzco

We left Lima yesterday afternoon and flew over the Andes into Cuzco which when we arrived was cold and wet (don't get excited folks, still warmer than at home). Got a taxi to a great old colonial style hotel not far from the town square which we were assured was muy tranquilo. On arriving in Cuzco I was immediately hit with altitude problems, symptoms were as follows: stoned with paranoia, slightly nauseous and the beginnings of a headache which just lingered. Vic was completely unscathed by above illness and we were in bed with lights out...

May 14, 2013 - Cuzco we're here

Just arrived in Cuzco....its baltic! Although Lou is roasting and also off her face and mildly hysterical with the altitude (over 10k feet above sea level) while I'm ragin that I don't have a similar buzz. We're just chillin in our nice hotel with a bucket load of coca tea for a while before going on a food hunt and checkin out the main square before it gets dark. And we both need a decent shit :D