Cabin crew, please take your seats for landing... (Day 1-2, Lima)

After a more than tiring 20 hours of travelling, I finally hear the pilot’s magic words "cabin crew please take your seats for landing". All of a sudden the plane breaks through the ever-present clouds of the Lima area and a few minutes later we are taxing towards the Lima International Airport Terminal. Yipie! I am in South-America! Can’t believe it!

Lima is still asleep when Jorge, a very religious taxi driver, drops me of at my backpacker’s hostel in Miraflores. The next two days I will be discovering this giant city (8 million inhabitants). In a few words: Lima is humid and cold city, in winter times always cloudy. The inner city is always filled with horning taxi- and minibus drivers who are making a big attempt to speed up global warming.

The highlights of my stay in Lima were for sure the visit to the old monasterio (including Rubens paintings... did I had to come to Peru for this!?) and a nice dinner with Fernando, a fellow traveller from Bilboa, at the Baranco seaside. Although you certainly could spend a few weeks in Lima, I decided escape the clouds/pollution and go for some sun and fresh air in Nazca...