We came to Lima from Nazca and it was not that far , only three hours of bus ride. A lot of our team members were finishing their trip in Lima , so we had a big get together there. Leah, Katie, David and quite a few others went back to their home from Lima. Nicole , a new girl joined us from Lima so, now we are only six and the team leader. Tavern, a Canadian guy who has been traveling with us since Brazil left Lima to meet his girl that he met in the trip in Huanchaco a day earlier than we would go there as Elle, the girl in question was teaching there in a school! We had a bit of drama in the last evening in Lima between two girls and we all witnessed it, I won't mention any names but it went a bit dirty than you would think!
Lima is quite a big city. I was quite surprised to see the city center and it was huge! We went to a museum with Catacomb in it. Catacombs are ancient, human-made underground passageways or subterranean cemeteries composed thereof. Many are under cities and have served during historic times as a refuge for safety during wars or as a meeting place for cults. The first burial galleries to be referred to as catacombs lie beneath San Sebastiano fuori le mura, in Rome. The derivation of the word itself is disputed and it remains unclear if it ultimately derives from the cemetery itself or from the locality in which it is found. There is no doubt however that the San Sebastiano catacombs are the first to be referred to as such.
We went to another museum where they showed all the demonstration of different types of punishment and it was quite disturbing and strange to visit! We saw a number of churches from outside as well as from inside and they were all beautiful in their design, articraft and architecture and interiors. In all over South America the Catholic churches are a huge part of each of these countries and a lot of money had been spent for building these churches. Some of them even have large amount of gold-plated metal inside. There was this shopping mall right by the sea where we went for clubbing and then went there again next day. It was really beautiful but quite pricy. Leah bought some clothes from there and I helped her in choosing them.
After everyone left, next day Rachel, Jenny (an English girl who traveled with us some part of the journey and then left. She came to visit Rachel on the way to take a flight from Lima. She stayed with us in our room and three of us went out for dancing after coming back from dinner with the boys (David and John, David is a going to-be school teacher, John is an architect, both from UK). The food was great but the service was not. The first place where we went for dancing was a Karaoke place but was pretty dull, so we went to the MiraFlores area where we went the night before with rest of the group and then checked out few places. Most of the places were pretty dead because it was a Sunday but we got into one place which seemed alright. Rachel met a nice Israeli guy as his dance partner, a cute Peruvian guy was dancing with Jenny and i first danced with a Peruvian guy and then an Israeli guy (his hair was literally stinking!), so I showed an excuse of knee pain ad came back to the table we were sitting at. It was fun dancing although not as much fun as in Cusco or in Montevideo!
We left Lima the next day and took a bus to our next destination, Huanchaco, a fishing village in the north of Peru.
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