Lima, Peru
So I wake in the bus at 7am. I'm thinking, oh that's weird, we are supposed to be in Lima. The bus driver said the bus ride was only 18 hours. Well, apparently this was Peruvian time because we didn't end up getting into Lima until 10am. A good 3hrs late. My flight was to leave at 11am and I'm trying to find a cab to drive to the airport which is a good 3o mins away. I finally find one and tell him to step on it. Lucky me, I found the one cabby in Lima that doesn't even know where his only airport is. What taxi driver doesn't know where the airport is? I don't care how big your city is. So, buddy was driving all over the place asking people directions to the airport. He would then drive another couple blocks and ask some other people directions. It was like he kept on forgetting the directions. He did this atleast 8 times. So I finally get there at 10 to 11am. I obviously missed my plane I had to find the office and get my new flight for the next day. It was a bit of a costly mistake but that was the first of the trip, so I got off well...
I cabbed back to the hostel I stayed at when I first went to Lima. They didn't have any room but they let me chill there for a bit. I then went to then went to the Catacombs with a Canadian couple. That was a really cool museum and exhibit. These Catacombs had stored the bones of over 30,000 bodies in their cellars. It was pretty surreal to see. In the top of the building there were many spooky murals on the wall of famous people from back in the Biblical Times. Spooky thing about them was that all the heads were painted over in white. It was like something out of the Ring. The tour guide didn't even have a good explanation of why the heads were painted over. There were also tons of bats in the roof of one fo the rooms flying all over the place. I thought it was a cool place with a spooky place.
After the Catacombs I checked into my third Loki Hostel for a free Tshirt. Booya! I then went to this place called "The Canadian Bar". I'm thinking great, they'll probably have the hockey game. Nope! It was this discoteca bar that resembled nothing of Canada. They only played salsa and merengue and all the server girls would flirt and dance with the old men who drank there. Hmmm, anybody been to a bar like this in Canada? So I had to resort to the hostel to watch the devastating defeat. Brutal!
The next day I was defintely not going to miss that plane again so I got to the airport extra early and caught that darned plane. Great Success!
I cabbed back to the hostel I stayed at when I first went to Lima. They didn't have any room but they let me chill there for a bit. I then went to then went to the Catacombs with a Canadian couple. That was a really cool museum and exhibit. These Catacombs had stored the bones of over 30,000 bodies in their cellars. It was pretty surreal to see. In the top of the building there were many spooky murals on the wall of famous people from back in the Biblical Times. Spooky thing about them was that all the heads were painted over in white. It was like something out of the Ring. The tour guide didn't even have a good explanation of why the heads were painted over. There were also tons of bats in the roof of one fo the rooms flying all over the place. I thought it was a cool place with a spooky place.
After the Catacombs I checked into my third Loki Hostel for a free Tshirt. Booya! I then went to this place called "The Canadian Bar". I'm thinking great, they'll probably have the hockey game. Nope! It was this discoteca bar that resembled nothing of Canada. They only played salsa and merengue and all the server girls would flirt and dance with the old men who drank there. Hmmm, anybody been to a bar like this in Canada? So I had to resort to the hostel to watch the devastating defeat. Brutal!
The next day I was defintely not going to miss that plane again so I got to the airport extra early and caught that darned plane. Great Success!
posted by Kean @ 9:11 PM
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