Ok, we are now in Lima Peru.
Sunday we spent getting back to Quito and pretty much the highlight of the day was dinner at the hotel. Monday, had yet another early 4:00 a.m. wake up call and headed off to the airport for our flight to Lima.
It was a pleasant 2 hour flight on an Airbus via Taca Airline. Arrived in Lima and were met by Sonia and the bus. Toured around the city starting with the main square Plaza de Armas. This square is home to a cathedral, the mayor's office, the Presidental Palace, and many many tanks and police officers. We got to see the changing of the Palace guards and the changing of the police into riot gear. Then it was on to the San Francisco Convento. Built over many hundreds of years starting in the 1500's, its exterior is home to thousands of pigeons. We got to see a really interesting library with books dating back to the 1400's and took a tour of the catacombs where we filed past loads and loads of bones. Estimated 30,000 people were buried under the church. Next stop was a visit to a private house to see one of the largest collection of nativity sceens in Peru. Sounds kinda odd but was really nice. The owner of the collection comes from an well known family in Peru and his great grandfather was President of Peru.
Lunch was at the Malabar, a fairly high end restaurant. It was here we were introduced to pisco, a distilled beverage made from grapes. We sampled a pisco punch and a pisco sour. We were told of a pisco sour drinking contest where 16 pisco sours were consumed in one minute - the winner was given a free cab ride home. The sours were a favorite of Ernest Hemingway.
Tomorrow another airplane ride to the high Andes city of Cusco.
Over and out...
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Discover a new drink!!!.. well well for sure this is not a wasted trip. A recommendation from Hemmingway on a drink is a recommendation based on lots of experience. Hmmmm Cusco is around 11,000 ft and Machu Picchu is uphill from there! That makes for some rare air, good luck. Hope you have great weather.
Hope you weren't anywhere close to getting a free cab ride home after dinner. You are really covering a lot of territory as usual, sounds like sooo much fun.
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