Hi everyone
just to surprise you all I´m actually on time this week!
Think this is going to be a short one because I´ve just arrived in Huaraz - next to the Cordillera Blanca and want to go exploring as soon as possible.
So last tuesday my new Canadian friends and I decided to take out the free kayaks our hostel provided. We spent a good hour or so out on the water because returning to sit by the pool and dry off a little. Unfortunately I managed to burn my legs in the process but it´s fine now.
Later in the day we had another wander around the small town of Paracas, though since it{s only a small town it wasn´t long before we headed back to the hostel and actually just spent the afternoon chilling out and watching movies. Josh and his mum Laurie left that evening for Lima while I stayed behind to enjoy one more day by the beach.
Wednesday was mostly spent catching up with some things online, chilling on the beach and hanging out with some Peruhopper´s who were heading in the other direction. Around 8pm, after a very unproductive day I caught the bus up to Lima where I arrived around midnight.
Luckily I had a hostel already sorted so I arrived and went straight to bed.
I decided to get straight into exploring Lima the next day and joined up with a free walking tour for the morning. The tour took us on the tram to the city centre were the guide showed us loads of cool churches, some museums to check out at some point and explained a lot about Peru before and after the Spanish. Their were some really great people also on the tour, including one guy from Scotland! One thing I´ve found in the few years I´ve been travelling is that I never see any other Scottish travellers so I was really happy to finally find one in Lima.
After the tour a group of us stuck together go get food and so some of us had our first taste of Cerviche - raw fish cured in citric juices (like lemon or lime). It was interesting but I don´t know if I´d want to try it again.
Our new little group decided to meet again that evening to go get a couple of drinks which proved rather difficult. We went to the ´party area´to find the place almost dead and after walking round for quite some time looking for a suitable place we instead headed back to the part of town we were staying in and ended up being taken to a gay bar near the park where we´d met originally.
I wasn´t really into the music and by that point I was pretty tired so I went back to my hostel, however once there I got talking to the guys who work at the hostel and instead of going to bed I ended up sitting up chatting until around 5am!
On Friday three of us went exploring to look for museums and found a museum with a really interesting exhibit about a terrorist factor called the Shining Path - they were actually still active here in Peru until around only a few years ago so it was really interesting to learn more about that. Shame I was too tired to think about taking notes but it was enjoyable all the same.
We finished around lunch time then found a chinese for food. Instead of gettign a bus back we just decided to walk back which was nice to see some new places. We also found all the craft markets to explore at a later date. In the evening the other two guys I´d been hanging out with came and hung out at my hostel since there was a bar on the roof - so they stuck around until the bar closed then we split and I went to bed.
Yesterday was another musuem day. We found a great art museum which some interesting exhibits and the park it was in was really nicetoo so after checking out the museum we hung out there for a while. There was actually a food festival going on at the same time so we got to try a few new things while we were there. Once we´d gotten tired of the park we went back to the area we were staying in - Miraflores - and walked the other way to go check out the coastline for a bit.
I went back to my hostel to hang out for a bit then after a quick meet up with the Scottish lad again for dinner I met with our other friend to get the next bus.
We travelled up to Huaraz on the overnight bus and arrived early this morning.
Ok Now I´d better go cause someone else is waiting to use the computer and I want to go exploring. I can´t add pictures right now but I´ll try and do it later.
Speak to you all soon!!
Ciao
just to surprise you all I´m actually on time this week!
Think this is going to be a short one because I´ve just arrived in Huaraz - next to the Cordillera Blanca and want to go exploring as soon as possible.
So last tuesday my new Canadian friends and I decided to take out the free kayaks our hostel provided. We spent a good hour or so out on the water because returning to sit by the pool and dry off a little. Unfortunately I managed to burn my legs in the process but it´s fine now.
Later in the day we had another wander around the small town of Paracas, though since it{s only a small town it wasn´t long before we headed back to the hostel and actually just spent the afternoon chilling out and watching movies. Josh and his mum Laurie left that evening for Lima while I stayed behind to enjoy one more day by the beach.
Wednesday was mostly spent catching up with some things online, chilling on the beach and hanging out with some Peruhopper´s who were heading in the other direction. Around 8pm, after a very unproductive day I caught the bus up to Lima where I arrived around midnight.
Luckily I had a hostel already sorted so I arrived and went straight to bed.
I decided to get straight into exploring Lima the next day and joined up with a free walking tour for the morning. The tour took us on the tram to the city centre were the guide showed us loads of cool churches, some museums to check out at some point and explained a lot about Peru before and after the Spanish. Their were some really great people also on the tour, including one guy from Scotland! One thing I´ve found in the few years I´ve been travelling is that I never see any other Scottish travellers so I was really happy to finally find one in Lima.
After the tour a group of us stuck together go get food and so some of us had our first taste of Cerviche - raw fish cured in citric juices (like lemon or lime). It was interesting but I don´t know if I´d want to try it again.
Our new little group decided to meet again that evening to go get a couple of drinks which proved rather difficult. We went to the ´party area´to find the place almost dead and after walking round for quite some time looking for a suitable place we instead headed back to the part of town we were staying in and ended up being taken to a gay bar near the park where we´d met originally.
I wasn´t really into the music and by that point I was pretty tired so I went back to my hostel, however once there I got talking to the guys who work at the hostel and instead of going to bed I ended up sitting up chatting until around 5am!
On Friday three of us went exploring to look for museums and found a museum with a really interesting exhibit about a terrorist factor called the Shining Path - they were actually still active here in Peru until around only a few years ago so it was really interesting to learn more about that. Shame I was too tired to think about taking notes but it was enjoyable all the same.
We finished around lunch time then found a chinese for food. Instead of gettign a bus back we just decided to walk back which was nice to see some new places. We also found all the craft markets to explore at a later date. In the evening the other two guys I´d been hanging out with came and hung out at my hostel since there was a bar on the roof - so they stuck around until the bar closed then we split and I went to bed.
Yesterday was another musuem day. We found a great art museum which some interesting exhibits and the park it was in was really nicetoo so after checking out the museum we hung out there for a while. There was actually a food festival going on at the same time so we got to try a few new things while we were there. Once we´d gotten tired of the park we went back to the area we were staying in - Miraflores - and walked the other way to go check out the coastline for a bit.
I went back to my hostel to hang out for a bit then after a quick meet up with the Scottish lad again for dinner I met with our other friend to get the next bus.
We travelled up to Huaraz on the overnight bus and arrived early this morning.
Ok Now I´d better go cause someone else is waiting to use the computer and I want to go exploring. I can´t add pictures right now but I´ll try and do it later.
Speak to you all soon!!
Ciao
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