Discovering Lima

Hola de Lima!

After 3h30 of flight with Copa Airlines, we are now in Peru´s capital for a few days before flying tomorrow to Cusco. All the people we know who have been to Lima told us it was better to spend as little time as possible there..so we arrived with quite low expectations and we actually think that the city has a lot to offer:) We are staying in the Miraflores district in one of the Flying Dog Hostels. Miraflores is a newer and safer district of this 9 Millions inhabitants city.

Something pretty cool about Lima is this location: In the middle of the desert (according to the Lonely Planet it is the 2nd biggest desert city in the world) and on the border of the Pacific Ocean (many surfers down the cliffs of Miraflores). On the backside, Lima is suffering from earthquakes which have every so often partially destroyed the city since its creation in the 16th century.

We have so far visited some churches and museums in the Central Lima and tried one of the Peruvians specialities: Ceviche (not so far from the Japanese sushis as it consists of marinated raw fish).

We as well did an excursion to Pachacamac (what a cool name!!) which is an archeologic site where there are some ruins of temples dedicated to the god Pachacamac ¨the earth creator¨. There we saw our first Peruvian Lama and as well some Peruvian dogs: they look so weird as they have no hair expect on their head. These dogs were used in the past as healers as their body temperatures is higher than normal dogs..

We´ll soon share pictures but unfortunately we could not find a cybercafe which allow us to upload the pics on Picasa...