Lima

So Karen and I arrived in Lima after along 17 hour bus journey through the night from Arequipa.  Some fab films onboard kept everyone occupied, laughing and crying.  I remember being woken up a couple of times in the night and looking out the window to see severe drops into the ocean with the bus hanging over the edge- scary but pretty fantastic views!  So we arrived in Lima and had the usual shower and sleep, before heading for a fantastic lunch of cerviche and seafood risotto with a drink for just 4 pound!  Then we went for a stroll around Miraflores for a chilled afternoon before heading out for dinner and some drinks.

The next day we took the metro-bus into the centre and was surprised by a carnival style parade in the Plaza de Armas, before catching changing of the guard at the presidential palace and then another parade inside the Palace ground to inaugurate the Tacna carnival for that year... all of this by chance and best of all it was free.  We then headed for a random walk and stumbled across a church which we visited.  Part of the visit including a trip to the catacombs underground- well it was so eerie.  When the restorers were working on the church they found the remains of some bodies and as they dug more realised that the church had been buried on top of the main cementery for Lima... they decided that they would organise all of the bones of the broken corpses into sections.  As we walked through we passed mass graves of tibias fibias, pelvices and then skulls- all staring at you and in such well preserved conditions!  It was interesting but pretty scary!  We then went for lunch followed by a long walk through parks and the required Starbucks frappuccino stop-off.  The best park was the Park of Fountains... dozens of fountains that moved to music and which at night are lit up with LEDs to create a whole show, which we unfortunately couldnt stay for.

The Sunday was just a chill day whilst I waited for my flight to Buenos Aires, so we headed to the beach.  It was RAMMED being a Sunday, including flaite kids playing music out really loud right next to us.  And then it was time to shower and head off to the airport to head to Buenos Aires :)  So BAires and Iguazu will be the next blog when I have chance... trying to keep up with the blogging as I go but sometimes it's quite hard to have the time or the computer in a hostel to sit down and write about the adventures!  Till next time xxx