5/4 back to Lima

Woke in room 301 (again) of our new hotel and noticed there is a cruise ship in the bay.Turns out to be the Veendam. Plus people had been packing in all night for the Easter break. We walked along the beach to the train station and the restaurants were all jampacked - have been quite empty till today.

Spot the dog.......

Can you see it?  look on the roof.  You see a lot of dogs living on the roof of houses in S.America.  This one was especially cute.

Between Paracas and Lima it is sand dunes.  Can't understand why these shanty villages are here.

The usual panoramicas on the bus - 4 hours passed sooo easily. We guided the taxi driver to the hostel with fluent Spanish. Dragged the stored luggage upstairs -  what a pleasure it had been to live out of one small backpack each.

We both felt tatty and needed a small lie down. There is nobody else here. Then we paraded off to the internet shop to print all the tickets. 3 cruise tickets, one hostel ticket for Miami and our US visa exemptin certificates. That all went swingingly well and cost us something like $2. We collected money and stocked up at a tiny general store. Lovely people - no attempt to jack up prices and so helpful. Bought a monstrous mango for 60c.

There had been a new Greek chap here when we first arrived but he left soon after. He had beeen robbed on day 1 in Lima and lost a heap of cash. He just wanted to get out of the country - which he said was irrational and he would regret not going to Machu Picchu, but he just needed to get away - post traumatic shock. We really have been very lucky with security. Its so easy to get done.