Lima has been a pleasant surprise. It is a city of over 10 million - the traffic is incredible and this is their vacation season. We were able to sleep in to about 9:00 so we did get about 6 hours sleep. We might have slept longer but the din from the construction just next door did get in the way. We ate a large buffet breakfast (included) and then went for a walk. We are in the Miraflores district which is their tourist/shopping area an very near the coast. We ...

We had a long but surprisingly easy day flying to Lima. We caught the 6:00 AM shuttle to LAX for our 9:15 7 hour flight to Bogota. This was the 1st time we have flown on Avancia and were quite impressed. It was on one of the new Boeing 787's which has a 3 by 3 by 3 configuration. We has seats in the middle 3. The plane was only about 2/3 full and we had the row to ourselves. We had a choice of entrees (the beef lasagna was quite good) and all the wine we wanted. ...