i love Peru.
i quite possibly hate Lima.
Perhaps Lima´s most endearing quality to me is the persistent fog. Temperatures in the high 50s with almost constant fog are approaching ideal conditions for me... the problem is that the fog happens to be more along the lines of oppressive smog.
Updating my blog, i am obviously not in a bus station as i said that i would be at this time. After a series of eventful flights (actually, they were probably incredibly eventful, complete with unicycling clowns and baby-juggling llamas, but i was asleep for it all), i landed in Lima at about 10:30pm. i then proceeded to get robbed hand over fist by the airport taxi cartel (they only allow ¨safe¨ taxis into the airport... which is good, but also means that the taxis get to charge whatever they want). i paid $25 to go halfway across Lima. Tomorrow i´m paying $15 to go halfway across Peru. i love Peru. i hate Lima.
So my taxi takes me halfway across Lima to the Cruz del Sur bus station on Javier Prado. i´ve put in many 2am-5am nights in bus stations in Peru, so i just assumed that it would be open with women´s shrill voices calling out ¨Juliaca-Puno!¨ and ´´Ica! Ica! Ica! Ica! Ica!´´ as i was accustomed to... but such was not the case. Instead, it was quite closed, and the only human presence was not quite of the reputation that i cared to spend any time around. The taxi driver recommended a ´´cheap´´ backpackers´ hostal (which costs about twice as much as i want to be in the practice of paying for lodging), where i write from now.
On the upside, i managed to find a phone card, and also to find that as long as i don´t call from the wrong pay phone it´s good for quite a considerable amount of time. So something went right tonight!
Thanks for the comments, they´re all very encouraging... hopefully i´ll have another update up with some pictures by the end of the week or so. My bus leaves Lima at noon tomorrow (not soon enough), and i´m hoping to roll into Aplao by 10 or 11am on Wednesday.
Cities aren´t my forte... i´m ready to be in the middle of nowhere. Soon...
6 comments:
Yay! I'm glad all is going "relatively" well and all is looking up for you. Keep safe mi amigo. :)
Katie
Be wary of the middle of nowhere. I recommend the slightly off-center of nowhere.
Be safe and active, yo.
Glad to hear that you got there safely and that something actually went as planned. Hope you are having a blast on that 14 hour bus ride right now.
eliana was asking about where you were today...
she said, oh sam is in peru? why is he there? i said, to take pictures and tell people about Jesus.
so she said, what about Caroline? where is Caroline? I said, she is in Missouri. to which she added the preverbial, "WHY?" and i told her,
to work and tell people about Jesus.
quite satisfied with that answer she said, Oh.
miss you sam well. take care and watch for the man of peace.
blessings
christy
Glad all is well so far. I look forward to your pictures if indeed such an eerie fog is present. Keep it dramatic...and keep it real. Hasta Luego.
Peej
I remember going through Lima as we were headed to Quito, Ecuador. I could definitely see why you'd rather be in the sticks than Lima though. This trip sounds awesome - I have your blog on one of my bookmarks! Keep safe man.
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