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A long journey from Arequipa to Lima was followed by a nice hotel (to celebrate Anne's birthday). We were waiting for Heather (James' sister) to arrive from USA so had a second day in Lima Miraflores district merely hanging around. An early start to meet Heather's plane from Mexico where she was transiting. We arrived at the airport around 5.30am but much to our annoyance the plane was delayed by over 7 hours. Anne disappeared back to the hotel whilst James sat and let the world drift by for what seemed an age.

Travels with Ickle Sis.

James and Anne Walkington
2006-09-26 18:06:15

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A long journey from Arequipa to Lima was followed by a nice hotel (to celebrate Anne's birthday). We were waiting for Heather (James' sister) to arrive from USA so had a second day in Lima Miraflores district merely hanging around. An early start to meet Heather's plane from Mexico where she was transiting. We arrived at the airport around 5.30am but much to our annoyance the plane was delayed by over 7 hours. Anne disappeared back to the hotel whilst James sat and let the world drift by for what seemed an age.

Finally Heather arrived and was immediately surrounded by annoying taxi drivers - impressed with James' level of Spanish as he argued with various taxis until they came up with a reasonable price. A lighting fast drive into Lima was exciting for Heather as we whipped around other cars and people.

Because Heather's flight was late we stayed another night in Lima. Basically Lima is another dirty, polluted Peruvian city where people get robbed or worse. Anyway we left Lima on a 22 hour bus journey - at least the buses are good quality - towards Cusco the capital of the Inca empire.

Again hounded by taxi and hotel touts we found our way to a nice cheap hotel but again they needed a lot of work to come up with a mutually agreeable price. Incidentally Heather thought that we were being too argumentative over the price of everything. After 3 weeks in Peru she was to change her mind. The Peruvians only seem out to rip you off at every turn, there is always something more that they want. In all the other Latin American countries we have been too there is never a problem with money or taxis or touts!

Cusco is at about 3300m so we took it easy for the first day for Heather's benefit and then felt that we should see some Inca stone work. A short taxi drive to about 10km from Cusco landed us at some Inca baths, then a military camp, then some weird caves (still 5km from Cusco on our walk back James was ...