So, we got a bunch of digital pictures from folks who spent a lot of time on the trip with us. Once our camera broke, they were so kind and took pictures of us with their cameras and e-mailed them to us. So, now I am ready to share.
We spent the first day in Lima. We started out in the most tourist-y place you can imagine because it was kind of close to our hotel. It was also close to the beach:
The place was called Larcomar, and it was basically a huge kitschy shopping mall. We got out of there as soon as possible and took a taxi to the Plaza de Armas in the center of town.
We ate lunch at a cute little cafe right off the main square, and unlike in Paris where you would pay almost twice as much for a meal by say, Notre Dame, than you would anywhere else in the city, this meal was just about the cheapest one we ate the whole time we were in Peru. We were also pretty much the only white tourists walking around.
We had heard before we went that Lima is a terrible city and we should leave as soon as we could. Our experience of it was completely different. I thought it was great! So, it's not incredibly tourist-y. People don't really speak English there. There are bad parts of town. That doesn't make it a horrible city! I don't know what people are talking about! We had a great day there!
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I'm so glad the people you were traveling around with are so nice--yea for pictures!
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