Redemption

I arrived in Peru late last night and woke up early this morning ready to explore. The sun was shining through the smog and all was good in the world. So off we went through the streets and plazas of Lima with great ethusiasm. By lunchtime, we were ready for a cocktail! The smog and traffic of central Lima overshadow the beauty of any of the architechture or open plazas. We headed to the coast for a breath of fresh air and some ceviche. Now this is where the city of Lima shines...the food and drink. We sat at a restaurant on a cliff overlooking the Pacific and feasted on the best ceviche Ive ever tasted, scallops with cheese, and marinated beef heart kebobs (yes, heart). Along with that, the ladies and I decided to partake in the local specialty cocktail, the pisco sour. These drinks dont seem like much more than a vodka sour or a really tangy margarita but they are quite potent, or at least the ones at our lunch spot of choice were. After 1/2 a drink I could feel it in my head. This wasnt a usual kind of drunk (which Im quite accustomed to lately), this was more like a high....it goes straight to your head. After just 2 of these wonderful little concoctions we were laughing like three stoned little school girls.
I would not recommend more than a day or two in Lima but the one redeeming quality of this city is most certainly the food (along with, perhaps, friendly taxi drivers). After our feast at lunch, we also had quite a spread for dinner starting with boiled potatoes with a spicy cheese sauce (I cant remember what its called) followed by arroz con mariscos (the seafood is excellent here) and Tacu Tacu con pescado y mariscos (a rice and beans mixture over a giant sole fillet all covered in a creamy seafood sauce).....Yummy Goodness!

Tomorrow morning we are off to Cusco and bigger, better adventures!