We started our day by walking to a travel agent down the road to hopefully give us some direction for the remainder of our trip. We were a bit underwhelmed, so we walked a bit to find another travel agent. And that's when we hit the travel agency jackpot. One street with probably 10 different agencies in 10 blocks. We dropped into several of them and ultimately went with the one that was the most hidden (7th floor, no signage) and most secure (the door lock needed to be remotely released to enter or exit)...but not for those reasons.
I'm skipping ahead, because as I write this, it is past 7:30pm and we're still sorting out the next 18 days. A big thanks to Ivan for staying almost 2 hours past closing time for us. If all works out, we'll head to Cusco at 5am tomorrow morning.
[Note: although I'm writing offline on Monday night, I'm not sure when this will get posted. Perhaps the next time we pass a Starbucks with wifi.]
After a short day in Lima, here's what I noticed:
- Limeños (locals) are very friendly
- there do not seem to be many tourists in the city
- crossing a busy road requires you to wait for a car to also cross the road along with you, so that you can use it as a shield
- otherwise, street rules here follow the Indian paradigm: there are few signs/lights so a little bullying is required -- but too much will get you into an accident
- you would be hard pressed to find another city with cleaner streets and sidewalks than the ones we've seen in Miraflores -- we saw one shopkeeper _vacuuming_ the sidewalk in front of her shop!
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