Not a very eventful day today.

We joined Greg and Leslie in the breakfast room at our hotel for the last time. 🙁  I got the last croissant!! 🙂

Stu organized a cab with the front desk, so after breakfast we went to gather our things and do a final pack.  Not much to do as we hadn’t really unpacked from Aguas Calientes.

We said our final goodbyes of this trip and left in the cab.  Greg and Leslie will be moving on tomorrow to Bolivia.  Won’t be home for many a day…..

Our flight was delayed.  It was supposed to leave at 12:15 but was closer to 2 before we took off.

We had contacted our hotel in Lima and they said they would send a cab for us.  We should pay the driver $25 USD in cash.

While we waited, we were approached by a couple of women and 2 young girls.  The women asked if we spoke English and if the girls could ask us 6 questions. One of the questions was “Where are you from?”  They were very pleased when Stu told them Canada! These were easier than the Holy Week questions that were asked in Cusco.  The interview did need to end with photos, so we got ours as well!!

When we arrived we did not see our hotel name or our name on any signs, so we waited a short time before approaching one of the many cab drivers waiting in the arrivals area.  He quotes us 60 Soles, which is less that $20 USD, so we win!!

We are not in the morning rush hour like we were when we arrived in Lima over a month ago.  It is a bit less hectic, but soon it is apparent that we are now in the afternoon rush hour as it is around 4PM.  Busy busy city.

 

We upgraded to a bit better hotel this time and are quite pleased with the results 🙂   This is the giant bed! And, yes that is an AC unit on the wall.  It was quite cool at night in Cusco and Aguas Caliente.  Not so here in Lima.  We will be using this puppy tonight!

 

 

 

 

 

This is the very very nice bathroom.

 

 

 

We decide to wander about.  We are in a little different area than our last time in Lima.  From our hotel we turn right and walk a few blocks.  The street ends so we turn left and left again when we hit a busy street.  A few blocks later we turn left again and find a nice little cafe that serves beer, so we have some and an appy.  When we go to leave we make a wrong turn.  We know that we should only be 1 block away from the street our hotel is on, but we could not find it.  We asked at least 3 different people.  They don’t speak English and we tried to understand their Spanish.  No luck.  In the end we backtracked our steps and went back exactly the same way we came.  This morning we walked out of the hotel, turned left and walked 200 steps and we were exactly where we were last night!  We had a good laugh at how we became so turned around.  We justified it as the street we were looking for did not go past this large street and was actually only about 4 or 5 blocks long.   It worked for us  🙂 🙂