Mail NB There are 2 blogs for Lima. This is the second. To see the first, just change the date. The police station, with its boxy concrete rooms, was in an area of Lima little frequented by tourists. We sat in a hot, dark room furnished only by a couple of plywood desks, an old typewriter and a dilapidated, rusting metal filing cabinet four drawers high. The only decoration was provided by a chiclets chewing gum wall clock and a couple of reports on known felon...

Mali NB There are 2 Lima blogs - you won´t want to miss the 2nd. Just change the date. We passed through Lima on our way from Ushuaia to Huaraz in the Cordillera Blanca. For our short time in Lima, we´d arranged 3 things. The first was a nice hostel in the touristy Miraflores area of the city, with shrubbery that could easily conceal an excitable David Bellamy. The second was a taxi from the airport to the hostel, as our flight landed after midnight....