Saturday, October 21, 2006

Lima & The Earthquake!

Arrived in Lima gone midnight - the flight went surprisingly quickly (compared to the train journeys that we have had recently!) Got to our hotel at 1:30am and slept right through an earthquake at 6am! It was (apparently) factor 6 on the richter scale!

That day we took a city tour as we are only there one day! The most scary thing about this city is the driving - there are very few sets of traffic lights and many near collisions at every junction. Would not like to drive here!

That night we met our tour guide Nicolas & our group - Chris & Carolyn (Colorado), Susan (New Zealand) & Martin (UK), Karen, Katyo & Jimmy (UK), Yvonne & Fionnulla (Ireland) & Grant (New Zealand). We tried the famous Pisco Sour (which is made from grape & is about 45% alcohol!) It will take some getting used to!

We went for dinner with Milly (from the Yosemite trip) and Jimmy. It is so cheap out here - dinner is about £5!!

Saturday morning our group met in the hotel lobby to begin our trip - first destination Pisco!

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