Photos from Lima

Here are some photos from yesterday.

We started the day at the National Museum, where there were exhibitions of different eras of Peru's history. Apparently the 1980s and 1990s were quite bloody here and I had no previous knowledge of this horror period here.

Lunch is the most important meal here. We had a tasty lunch at a quite expensive restaurant. Bill was almost 70 euros for 2 persons! And who calls this a developing country!

We walked back from the restaurant to the hotel along the beautiful coastal cliffs.

One building was very narrow and this is me pretending to be it... ;)

Me getting up on the wall at the "love/lovers' park"

Me and K acting up accordingly to the Love park theme and statue...

The beach was near by and I was so jealous I couldn't go swimming with this knee! The waves were so big and stones unstable so there was a risk I could have injured myself and/or made my knee worse, so I could only sit and watch and take photos :( It reminded me of 20 years back when I broke my wrist when we visited Finland with my family and I couldn't go swimming then either when we were travelling through Germany by car back to England.

The ways were about to attack K! Watch out! Due to the waves, there were loads of surfers at this beach.

Me posing at the garden of our hotel.

Today I didn't have time to write to my blog as we rushed off to a city tour this morning. We saw the old historical buildings of Lima, visited a museum and a church. At the end of the tour me and K went to a seafood restaurant. Food was good and pecan pie for dessert was delicious!! Then we went to the Inca market to look around and now came back to the hotel.

Lima has been so far quite pleasant. At least compared to India few months back. The city we have seen is very tidy, traffic rational (cars use lanes! :), people quite well off and nice. They don't seem to have a mentality to rip you off or harass you. So far this has not really even seemed like a developing country, but if 54 % live under poverty line here, it must show somewhere... Tomorrow we have a flight to Cuzco and we'll be leaving hot Lima for cooler higher altitude places. See if there'll be internet in our next hotel!

p.s Maybe I'm the only one with inadequate knowledge but K told me the Finnish word "peruna" comes from Peru as potatoes originate from here. Did you know that? Apparently there are 3600 potato varities here, so we're trying our best to taste as many as possible ;)