Another free day in Lima

Friday My 23rd

After not having a free day in La Paz, we have two in Lima. Although technically this was teh first day of the next trip. The way it works is that there are a load of 3 week trips from city to city, and people can join of leave at each of these cities. So this time we were losing 6 people from our trip, and gaining 2 new people. Or so we thought. In fact they were supposed to turn up last night, but they could not be found. It caused our tour leader a bit of stress. But luckily they turned up this morning. They had misread the dates and their bus to Lima was an overnight one. So I guess this is why we try to have free days around the changeovers.

As for the rest of us, we basically sad more goodbyes to people leaving. It could have been me.

In between I did a bit of sightseeing to take a few photos with my new camera, and I went to the Inquisition Museum to see all the torture equipment. It wasn't great. Other than that and more internetting I didn't really get much done.

In the evening a few of us went to a tapas place near our hotel for dinner. However it closed at 6, so we had to go to a different restaurant across the road. And that one still closed at 9. It seems to be a common thing for restaurants to close early in the centre of town, which is why we ended up going to Miraflores the previous nights. In fact it was the same in Santiago, so I guess its just one of those things you have to be aware of when in a big town in South America.