It´s now my fourth day in Peru. So far, Renee and I have had great luck overall with our travels. We arrived at 10 on Saturday night, were picked up by a taxi sent by the hostel, and arrived at the hostel around 10:30. Despite our often heinous Spanish, we managed to buy bus tickets to Cuzco (a day later than we´d wanted, but that ended up being a good thing). We also made friends with people in our hostel, including a woman who lives in Ollanta, owns a hostel there, and is familiar with Awamaki. We had some very good conversations with her.
We also happened to be in Lima on a gorgeous, sunny, 70 degree day. We spent some time hanging out on the beach watching surfers, walked around Barranca, the section of Lima we were staying in, ate delicious ceviche, and ended up in the town square just as the Carnivale celebration began. There were probably a couple thousand people there with lots of energy and beer. Many of the young people had painted their bodies, and a fire truck came by at one point and sprayed the crowd while everyone cheered. There were also some really cool, giant puppets (skeleton pirate!) and a fireworks show. We couldn´t believe our luck in ending up in that part of Lima that day. It was fun.
Yesterday we mostly just rode a bus for 24 hours. It was the nicest bus I´ve ever been on, with giant, cushy seats, nonstop pretty good movies, and wonderful scenery out the window. Then again, it was 24 hours and all of it was uphill, so at about 10 pm we started feeling pretty queasy. Somehow we made it through, and now we´re at our host family´s house, who are a really nice 60 something couple named Ali and Dani. They´re very open and friendly, and are determined to help us learn Spanish. Hopefully my next post will also be so enthusiastic!
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