Category: "Travel and Places"

Cieneguilla

June 17th, 2006 |

In a bid to get over my cold faster, we left the winter of Lima and travelled 20km into the hills past La Molina suburb of Lima. Here it is warm, sunny and dry all year round.

Our route to La Molina is a pass through the foothills, which are like mountains in themselves. Here in the dry desert these foothills look like gigantic piles of dirt, rock and sand. The road from Surco into La Molina is cut through these foothills, from which you have a good view of fog-covered Surco about 100 meters below. La Molina feels like a separate city as between it and the rest of Lima these hills are a divider.

Lima Centro – Colonial Lima

June 13th, 2006 |

We visited the Plaza of San Martin (South American liberator from the Spanish) in the centre of which you can see his statue. To José de San Martin’s back-right is a street called Jirón de la Unión, which is pedestrianised. This street is bustling with people and is full of shops and shoppers. Following this street you eventually arrive in the Plaza de Armas…

Huachipa

May 30th, 2006 |

Huachipa is a little town in the hills outside Lima that boasts a rather large zoo – Not nearly as big as Parque de Las Leyendas in Lima, which i’ll check out soon, but it does have a miniature version of the Eden Project that is in the UK 😉 . They also have motorbike rickshaws, motortaxis, here, which you don’t see in the city.

Huancayo

April 27th, 2006 |

The small industrial town of Huancayo sits in a fertile valley just over the cordillera from Lima.
The plaza is, as ever, full of life. People can bee seen sitting on benches and taking walks while children are chasing pigeons. On one side of the plaza is the old cathedral, opposite is a large indoor market.