Tuesday, September 8, 2009

You guys took my birthday money, got me arrested, sent to Miami with no way home except to take down the country of Peru - and I'm being a dick?

So I´m now down in Peru. We arrived on our flight with no problems, less the $26 departure tax, and $14 hostel pickup. We are in the Miraflores district , which according to sources is wealthier, safer, etc than the main part of the city. My indications say this is true. Yesterday we did our basic grocery shopping and money grabbing which took 3 different ATMs to get one to spit out some money. A pleasant surprize has been that Peru looks to be much more affordable than Costa Rica is, yet our accomodations seem to be better than anything we had in CR for the same price. Today we walked around the downtown area. This required us to get one one of the little busses they have that drive around the city. The lady at the hostel told us to take the 5C which was written on the side mirror of the bus. We waited for a few minutes watching people get on and off but didn´t see ours. Each bus had a guy yelling out the destination and collecting the money and bringing in people. After some confusion, we see the one we´re looking for just as we were about to go and ask the hostel for help. The total of the trip was about 85 cents vs a $4 cab ride. In downtown we checked out the Iglesia San Francisco, which was a very European feeling old church, but had pile of exhumed bones from the catacombs below. We also partook in ´cebiche´which is their local raw fish in citrus juice dish which was pretty good in my book. Lora also took pictures of a lady selling this tiny eggs on the street, so i tried those to limit any hard feelings. No diarrhea so far. cross your fingers.

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