A beautiful day here in Miraflores! Last nights’ fireworks were amazing but sleeping until 10am was even more rewarding.  Peru shares times zones with Florida, so really I slept in until 8am.  The day started simply with showers and water processing before walking around town in search of food

Miraflores is a nicer district in the southern part of Lima. The buildings are of various ages and in many ways remind me of Cape Town. Walls around buildings have glass, spikes, or electric line fencing as well as gates and sometimes cameras.  Crime isn’t bad here and I haven’t seen any homeless people or beggars like someone from home told me there would be.  The newer buildings look spectacular and the two embassy buildings with passed looked like they were in great shape too. Sorry I don’t have pictures of the buildings or architecture yet. I’ll be sure to snag some in the future.

With a sunny day at 74°F a walk to the Pacific Ocean was our natural choice.  According to a random stranger a huge airport, the coast here has the “longest lefts” too bad I don’t surf.

The coast is lined with cliffs covered in Morning glory vines, which was quite a beautiful sight. 

For lunch we found a small place to eat that served Ceviche and a local drink, Pisco Sour.

Pisco Sour was a drink originally brewed for early travelers to be their “firewater”.  Too bad it leaves you with a bad hangover…  according to the menu.

Ceviche is raw fish cooked in lime juice. This gives you a safe raw fish to eat while maintaining a texture akin to sushi. Corn as a side was interesting because the puffed corn kernels were huge. The dish also came with a side of sweet potatoes soaked in a sugary syrup of some sort.

Today was a great walking day with great food and spectacular weather.  Tomorrow we will travel to Cuzco and prepare ourselves for a visit to Machu Pichu!

Goodnight and take care!