Wed 19 July 2006
I was awakened by pounding construction just outside my window. I tried to put a pillow over my head and keep sleeping, but it wasn’t going to happen, so I dragged myself out of bed and into the shower.
As we looked out the windows to plan our day we thought maybe we’d be dealing with a lot of rain, since the sky was a dark stormy gray with heavy cloud coverage. We later learned that this is what the sky ALWAYS looks like over Miraflores. In fact it’s considered one of the dirtiest skies in the western hemisphere! Getting fresh out of the shower in Miraflores, you can almost feel the oily air rushing in to plug your pores.
Loki Hostel is great because they have a locked storage room for travelers to keep their bags safe while they’re out touring, but you do have to be careful because other guests in that same storage room can still get into your things.
We only had one incident of theft the only time we were in Peru, and it was an odd one. Nate and Robyn had their backpacks locked inside heavy steel mesh bags that didn’t allow anyone to snoop through pockets or anything, however it didn’t prevent someone from cutting a buckle off from Nate’s bag. A weird thing to steal, we can only assume that someone had broken the buckle on their own bag and that Nate’s was a match to it so they just took his.
We left our bags in the lock up and walked down the street towards the Larco Mar beach. At the end of the street was a seaside mall with balconies to look down at the greenish blue surf.
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