1st day of travel- Here´s a little snippet of what I wrote in my hand-written journal while I was travelling.
¨We arrived at the Lima airport and had our driver meet us. He was holding a sign that said Eden Yoon and it made me feel pretty important. Ha ha. Anyways, we drove to our hostel Family House which took about 30 minutes from the airport. My first initial thoughts of Lima was it was a dirty section of LA. We arrived at our hostel and Christian, the owner, was really nice. He gave us amap, showed us around, and we got settled in our shabby, yet comfortable hostel. We then set off and ate a sandwich fast food chain which was pretty good. Then we went and headed to the coast. This was when I started warming up to Lima because it was a lot cleaner with nice seaside views. There were a lot of parks barely on the edge of the cliffs which had magnificent views. There was this one park called Parque de Amor which resembled Gaudi´s Park in Barcelona with the architecture. There was a nice cool ocean breeze and a lot of couples making out there. The paragliders were awesome, only $40 to paraglide! We walked along the cliffs to Larco Mall, which was a mall situated on a seaside cliff with great views of the ocean. We shopped around and then relaxed with a cinnamon roll, diet coke, and a latte enjoying views of the ocean. We then walked to Mercado India where Brinja was checking ot some souvenirs. After that we ate at this vegetarian restaurant called Govinda. It wasn´t that great, partly because it really didn´t have it´s own identity cuz it tried being Thai-ish which got us pretty excited but it ended up being some Peruvian guy attempting to cook what he thought was Pad Thai, but it was just oily spaghetti with vegetables. Quite disappointing. Throughout the walks, I took a few pictures of crafts, shops, people, and some nice colonial buildings and mansions
¨We arrived at the Lima airport and had our driver meet us. He was holding a sign that said Eden Yoon and it made me feel pretty important. Ha ha. Anyways, we drove to our hostel Family House which took about 30 minutes from the airport. My first initial thoughts of Lima was it was a dirty section of LA. We arrived at our hostel and Christian, the owner, was really nice. He gave us amap, showed us around, and we got settled in our shabby, yet comfortable hostel. We then set off and ate a sandwich fast food chain which was pretty good. Then we went and headed to the coast. This was when I started warming up to Lima because it was a lot cleaner with nice seaside views. There were a lot of parks barely on the edge of the cliffs which had magnificent views. There was this one park called Parque de Amor which resembled Gaudi´s Park in Barcelona with the architecture. There was a nice cool ocean breeze and a lot of couples making out there. The paragliders were awesome, only $40 to paraglide! We walked along the cliffs to Larco Mall, which was a mall situated on a seaside cliff with great views of the ocean. We shopped around and then relaxed with a cinnamon roll, diet coke, and a latte enjoying views of the ocean. We then walked to Mercado India where Brinja was checking ot some souvenirs. After that we ate at this vegetarian restaurant called Govinda. It wasn´t that great, partly because it really didn´t have it´s own identity cuz it tried being Thai-ish which got us pretty excited but it ended up being some Peruvian guy attempting to cook what he thought was Pad Thai, but it was just oily spaghetti with vegetables. Quite disappointing. Throughout the walks, I took a few pictures of crafts, shops, people, and some nice colonial buildings and mansions
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