Lima, Peru - Que puedo decir?

So Antonia and I started our big trip. We took a flight to Lima, Peru Sunday and are staying with our friend Luke, the one who came to visit us in Buens Aires. He lives with a few guys who run a non-profit and right now there's seven girls from the States volunteering, so it's a pretty full house. We only plan on staying here a few days then, we're off to Cuzco and Macchu Picchu. After that we plan on going to Laka Titicaca, La Paz, Los Salares de Uyuni, then back into Argentina for Salta and Cordoba, before returing to BsAs.

I was thinking "BEST VACATION EVER!" when this picture was being taken. An amry guy without a machine gun was looking at us and laughing too.


This is taken from behind the presidental palace too, but gives you a nice shot of the moutains.


This is a big church in the Plaza de Aramas


Here's a little procession we ran across.


This is a little market inside the post office downtown. The post office itself was closed, since it was a Sunday we were there.


This is a four hundred year old church downtown with catacombs underneith. We couldn't take pictures down there, but the basic image would be this: the bones of 25,000 people in a church basement.


We took a bus trying to go to this section called "La Punta", which is really nice (see the next picture), but got dropped of in this area instead. About two blocks we fit for gingos, the areas outside those two blocks - where I took this picture - got really sketch really quickly. We heard someone whistle and got out of there quick.


This is "La Punta". The day we went there was really overcast and misty so we could barely make out the islands off the shore. But this picture is some fishing boats near the shore.


This is the actual Punta. The islands should be barely visible.


This is a park taken in Miraflores, which is more or less a barrio of Lima, but for legal purposes is a city. It's pretty much the rich area of town.


Here's another shot of Miraflores. The city looks really lush here - but it's not. It's something like this area and the neighborhood where Luke lives takes up 95% of the water in the city. There are neighborhoods (like the one visible on the mountain in the second picture) that don't have running water, but these neighborhoods can use sprinklers to make the city look like this.