We arrived into Lima this morning at 8am. No accommodation booked this time, so this was first on our agenda. We only have one day here in Lima before a very early flight tomorrow to Curacao. We found a great hostel called the Backpackers Lions Hostel. We didnt have long so we found Avianca to check that the flights were in fact ok for the date change to tomorrow, It was closed unfortunately. so we went and finished souvenir and present shopping. Had a look arou...

Today was a lazy day..up just in time for a 10.30 breakfast. With so many museums and historical buildings to see we decided to ignore all of these and head to the cliff top suburb of Barranco. A very pleasant suburb to wander around although we couldn't work out why they had two statue?'s, one of John Wayne and one of Harry Potter, strange people these Peruvians...I refer you to the studio. Lunch was once again the menu of the day, this consisted of a picnic eg...

Hi... we have spent the last couple of days exploring Lima. We are staying in a really nice area called Miraflores. First stop, surprisingly enough, was shopping yesterday, ...hats scarves and coats. We read somewhere before we arrived that Lima should be around 70 degrees during the day.. However it is very cold and the sky is full of smog that blocks out any sunlight! Central Lima was on the cards for todays activities. Lima is similar to many large Cities with...

Dear All, We are safely in Lima, Our journey here was a bit of an epic - up at 5am for our 7:45am flight from barbados to trinidad, change of planes and 2hrs later we were in Curacao. A small island about 45 minutes off Venezeula which also boasts a capital that looks remarkably like Amsterdam due to the fact the Dutch own it.. photos will follow once we get organised. after a 6hr stopover there, the highlight being my beef kebab, we checked in with Avianca for...