Lima Take 2

So last time we were in Lima our experience was not great. We arrived a day late after missing our flight, we were jet lagged,  our taxi driver,in hopes of showing us Lima, ended up taking us all over (specially very shifty places), and telling us a lot of sad tales about life in Lima, plus we spend only a day there before heading to Cusco. This time due to our crazy experience on the bus to Lima, and bus availability we ended up staying 2 nights, and one day there, and boy did it feel different to me!

Our first night we just made a quick Air BnB reservation in order to have somewhere to stay as soon as we arrived. Our bus that was supposed to arrive at 11:30 in Lima, arrived at 20:30 instead. We stayed in a couple of rooms in Miraflores with a great view, check it out!

Our host did not have two rooms available for the following night so Wyatt and I found another place to stay in a neighborhood called San Borja. I really liked San Borja! It had so many green spaces, and a lot of nice shops and restaurants, but without the crowds of Miraflores. San Borja is yet another place that, in a different life, would be great to live in Peru.

As a child I remember Lima as a very brown place, but San Borja was nice and green with a lot of flowers

Kids checking out a fountain just as it stopped working...hehehe

I love all the fruit stands all over Peru, this is one thing I will miss for sure!

Talk about multitasking- get your Spa needs and your fish all in the same place

There was a huge park in San Borja where we walked around in.

A park to play in! The kids liked Arequipa, and they are loving Peru, but they do miss places like this, good old fashion parks.

The front yard of our Air BnB apartment in San Borja

During our stay in Lima we visited the Ruins of Huaca Pucllana. They are located right in the heart of the Miraflores district in Lima, and as we were told a number of times, they are NOT Inca ruins, these ruins predate the Incas by a few hundred years. Apparently they were recently excavated, and prepared for public viewing (mid 1980's). They are actually part of the Lima Culture, I guess that must be where the capital city gets it's name!

Recreation of people making mud brick in Huaca Pucllana.
 This is not an underwear museum, just to be clear!

These particular ruins were made using a bookend method of placing mud bricks, and it has stood the test of time, withstanding many earthquakes. The site was buried under a hill which was used as a recreational area for quads and motorcross bikes before it was discovered to be an archaeological site and become a museum. 

T and M in front of the pyramid of Huaca Pucllana

A tomb, and mummy site in Huaca Pucllana

You can see how these ruins are right in the middle of the city, behind them you can see the district of Miraflores

You can't have a cool Peruvian site without a few alpacas and llamas!