Confirmed: Lima is cool

We returned to Lima on a 22 hour bus at the end of our stint in Peru. Thanks to my dodgy-plane-ticket-booking skills, we had 4 (instead of 2) days to blow before our flight to Colombia.

Highlights:

• Moustache creativity;

First it was wide...

...and then it got skinnier

• Sitting in traffic in dodgy cabs with no floors - actually really funny - Limenos are amazingly proficient users of the car horn;

 

Grey started using a seatbelt for the first time in 6 months

• The sun in Lima is always covered by smog - not so much a highlight, but I won a bet with Grey because he was convinced that it was moon (?!);

 

 

• Exploring the Mercado Central, a slightly rundown, unsafe building (we kept our eyes on the fire exits) filled with everything you can possibly think of;

 

Market kitten

Mariscos

Baby goats

• Explorations of Chinatown, including yum-cha Peruvian style and poker machines;

 

It took soooo long to order this, Spa-nese = impossible

 

• Funny night out in the Barranco area where a cute, quaint little old man with a polaroid camera laughed endlessly at the failure of my face to develop ANY colour in his picture;

In a cute drinking den with polaroid man

Laughing at my face

• Cocktails at Chili's - my dream come true after watching The Office (slight let down in retrospect);

 

Margarita 'Presidente'

• Souvenir shopping - we're getting to the end and there is room in our bags;

 

We bought this huge 3 panelled oil painting for about $130

• The seaside of Miraflores and other Miraflores wanderings;

Wall art

• Mini-poker;

• Jockey Club Shopping Centre - ridiculously classy, huge shopping centre, completely out of place in a city where the average person makes just $350 US a month;

• Pinkberry;

Heaven on Earth, again