Ok, so getting on the internet and posting to the blog is easier said than done when traveling. Since our last post its been a few weeks and a lot has been seen and done. We will start where we left off with Nancy's birthday. We stayed in Central Lima until we could not stand the smog and noise and chaos of the big city. We stayed about 10 minutes from the Playas De Armas there in Lima. We have learned over the past few weeks, staying in different cities, this is the busiest and most active, and expensive, part of a city/town here in Peru. It's basically the main square of each city, where in ancient times, this would be the spot the people would take refuge if the city was under attack. It would be where all the arms and supplies would be gathered. There is usually old churches and government buildings to see.
Well, during our time in Lima near the Playas De Armas, it sounded as if the city was being attacked, and everyone was gathering to go to war. But really, people just partied and shot off fireworks until the sun came up. The weekends were the craziest. It was fun to be in the middle of it all initially, but after a week, our eyes were bloodshot and our sinuses were clogged shut from all the smog. We could barely sleep through the nightly shenanigans on the street. And we would survive through two big protests, one right in front of our hotel entrance. To top it all off, on our last day there, Nancy was the first victim to food poisoning. It destroyed her stomach for the next 3 days and included a painful and high fever. The worst of it was endured while on a 9 hour bus ride from Lima to Trujillo. We think its from a bad tomato in a dish that we ate called, Lomo Saltado. Stir fried strips of beef, onions, and tomatoes. Usually served with rice and papas fritas (french fries). Ryan loves this dish, but always picks out the tomatoes. So luckily he didn't get sick. Nancy was not so lucky...
Even though we were glad to move on after our time in Central Lima, there were some good times had. Some of the good highlights include, our visit to the El Circuito Magico Del Agua. A big park with a dozen or so huge illuminated fountains, live music played around the park, and is all topped off at the end of the night with a huge laser show. All for a little over 1 US dollar! Also we enjoyed getting to go through the Lima, Peru LDS temple. Ryan also enjoyed getting to watch Lord of The Rings in spanish in our hotel room. ha!
Here's a few pictures from our time in Central Lima:
Our first meal in Peru (total cost: about 8 US dollars!)
The window in our first room we stayed.ha...
Happy Nancy (before getting food poisoning in Lima.ha)
" I hate poisonous tomatoes!" Nancy says.
The view out of our window from the second room we stayed in.
El Circuito Magico Del Agua
Ryan loved getting "barreled" in this fountain...
Nancy loved dancing to the live music and eating two ice-cream cones at once!
The finale! A laser beam show!
El Senor de los Milagros
(A festival where Peruvians celebrate a religious feast and honor their oldest city )
That big thing behind Nancy, we learned weighed about 2 tons.
The priests carried it on their shoulder through the entire downtown of Lima
The view out our third room in Lima.
Same room as above. There were a lot of creepy placed mirrors in this room. ha.
Lima, Peru LDS Temple
Nancy made a new friend at the bus station on our way out of Lima.
This guy was just cruising around inside and hopped onto our laps.
He clawed Nancy good when Ryan scared him off.
Stay tuned. More photos and some videos coming soon!
2 comments:
Neat pictures! Glad you guys are having a great time.
It's about time! Lima looks rad
-Austin
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