Lima
10 March 2009
Lima is a big South American town, sprawling like Mexico City. The buses and the repetitive concrete construction remind me of India (and I know Africa will be like that when I get there). This is most of the earth : buses, honking, dust, concrete. Compared to India, Peru is sedate and lacks the insanity of motorcycles, bicycles, and herds of rampaging black buffalos in the middle of traffic.
I'm with my dad. We ate amazing food, got driven around the nice parts of town and caught only a glimpse of the rest of Lima with its shanty towns running up the hills Favela-style. My dad pointed out that in the US it would be the rich people who got the hills.
Really good food in Peru, just as promised.











