Hola! After a full travel day we are safe (and sound as our nerves will let us be)today in Lima. It could be the most grey and polluted city I've seen in a while. We landed at about 11:00 pm local time last night and took a taxi to the slightly nicer end of town called Miraflores. The hostile we're staying at was voted #2 in Latin America in 1995 so we're feeling pretty high society at the moment--although, our room does carry a mysterious, musty odor that stings the nostrils. There's no question though that we'll be in much dirtier places elsewhere on this journey.
Tomorrow morning we hop on a 7 hour bus ride to a small mountain town called Huaraz, in the Cordillera Mountains (part of the largest mountain range in the world aside from the Himilayas). If it's cold here in Lima we're definately going to freeze high up in the Andes. After a few frigid days up north we'll catch a bus back to Lima for our flight to Cusco on Saturday, and then a 5 day trek to Machu Picchu via a 14,000 ft pass. Brrrrrrrrr! Our hot Utah desert summer is already some 4,000 plus miles behind us.
The first day in a big, strange, non-English speaking city is always intense, and today was definately no exception. However, like good cheese, we will definately get better as time goes by.
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