Peru Trip - Day 2

8 April 2010


Breakfast at Hotel Casa Andina in Lima. 7:45am. The usual stuff. Pancakes, bacon, eggs, hot tea.



8am. Orientation with Enrique (Kike) Esteban. Lecture by some Peruvian named Alexi about the overview of the diversity of Peru.



About 10am we piled into a bus for a tour of Lima, specifically, Miraflores, the rich part of town. Lima drivers are insane. Most of them are taxis, buses, or rich people. They have zero concept of "merge". If you are not willing to cut someone off, you should not be driving here. I think our driver, Felipe, understands this concept well.


12am. Lunch at Senorio del Sulco by the beach of the Pacific.

4 courses (2 appetizers, 1 entree, dessert). First appetizer was fried kingfish. Second was tamales Peruvian style (they serve the tamal on top of the corn shuck instead of inside it). Entree was fried flounder over vegetables with rice. Dessert was a pruple corn pudding that was very good. I ate everything.



We also had some Peruvian drinks. The first one was an alcoholic thing called a Pisco Sour (more on that later). It tasted a lot like a Margarita only packing a bigger punch.


This is gonna hurt.

The second drink was called a Chica Moreno and it was non-alcoholic. It tasted kind of like a sweet Guiness.

I took some time after lunch to pose by the beach.
















After that we toured the Archaeological Musseum to explore the cultures up to and including the Incas.
Afternoon was a tour around the city with a stop to the central square with the main cathedral.

Also, let me take this opportunity to say that Peruvian women are HOT.



















6:30pm. Dinner at Tantas restaurant. Appetizer was a combination sausage/spinach/pie thing. Main course was Sesame chicken over rice (couldn't finish the rice- needed room for dessert). Dessert was coca/cheese/cream cheese/ nut sauce cake of some sort.

8:10pm. Walked back to the hotel. It was treacherous.

Day 1 they assumed Mom and I were a couple and they gave us a double bed which was kind of weird, you know. We corrected that day two and never had any more problems with that.