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Ash here...
There's a reason this site doesn't have a stock photo of Lima in its colleciton (see Machu Picchu, right) and that is because Lima is a city worth forgetting.
As Mandy's blog detailed, the city is even more of a s***hole than Uruguay. Using food as a comparison Uruguay is like a tasty Big Mac while Lima is like the mouldy snot on the street outside. That said, Lima has better pavements than B.A. And... that's about all there is to Lima.
The prices here are also tailored to tourists. No more five star meals for $30 a head like we had in B.A. Here everything is pretty much the same price as in Aus, only there's no charm or friendly atmosphere.
Tomorrow we're off to Cuzco so we can hike the Inca Trail (picture: fat geek in Atomic tshirt puffing and wheezing and b****ing about bugs and foilage and getting to the top and loving it. Probably) I'm actually really looking forward to it, but we hear Cuzo is similarly priced to Lima for the masses of tourists that hit it each year. So we may need to camp under a ruin.
Anyway, as Mandy said we're off to get hammered in the hotel room. There's not much else worth seeing here really. We already thought B.A was a fantastic place and would love to come back to it again, but being here in such a stark contrast has really made us appreciate it more. B.A was great on so many levels and if you've not traveled there yet I highly recommend it. Anyway, there's Peruvian beer upstairs with my name on it and I plan on having a very close relationship with it very soon.
Lots of love,
Ash
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