2007 Roadtrip Lima Peru After the Jungle

After our 10-day Amazon Jungle experience, we returned to Lima for a few days. During our first and second Lima stays, Audre had been using the Living in Peru website and contributing to the restaurant list by providing our restaurant reviews in the comment section. We also subscribed to the weekly Living in Peru Newsletter that is sent by e-mail.

One day we received an e-mail message from Millie Coquis of the Living in Peru staff thanking us for our contributions to the site. Over the weeks that we were outside of Lima we continued to correspond. Our lifestyle has fascinated Millie and she has set up a dinner with herself, her boss, Carsten Korch, and a reporter from the El Comercio, Milagros Leiva Gálvez. It was really fun to meet the people behind the Living in Peru website and share a meal.

Millie Couquis is on Dimitri's right, next to her is Mily Leiva, and next to Audre is Carsten Korch

Mily Leiva writes the “ContraCorriente” column for El Comercio. We’re flattered that people are interested in us! Mily Leiva interviewed us for her column and her colleague took a great picture of us for the newspaper article. Click here for the link to the article she wrote and share with us our 5 minutes of fame.

As we were planning our trip to Northern Perú, we considered going as far as the beaches almost at the Ecuadorian border. We know that we only like tropical beaches and very warm water so the Peruvian beaches would be “iffy”. We were also thinking of going to Ayacucho. It is supposed to be very ethnic, colorful, and interesting. However, we were nearing Easter. Semana Santa, the week before Easter, is one of the major festivals in Ayacucho. It draws crowds from everywhere. Not only would it be impossible to negotiate a good hotel rate, we might not be able to find a good hotel room at all.

In the end, we decided to drive to Trujillo and visit the archeological sites around there during Semana Santa. During our stay in Lima, we had our Pentax digital camera repaired at a shop on 28 Julio because it had gotten wet inside during our Ceiba Tops stay. It started working again but Carlos, the owner, said that there was something wrong with the on/off button too. He wasn’t sure how long it would work. We always say we will never spend the time or money to repair electronics. So why do we?

We put off our departure from Lima for a day when it looked like a sore on the bottom of Audre’s foot that had started hurting while we were still in the jungle was getting infected. Dimitri asked about a clinic at the front desk of the Sol de Oro and they said that paramedics would come to our hotel. It turned out to be a small infection that was cleaned outright in our hotel room by paramedics. We had seen on many hotels' lists of amenities that "medical services" were listed. We wondered about that. It turns out that the hotels have an insurance contract with an ambulance service. The ambulance comes fully equipped and the paramedics bring what they need to the room. There was no charge. Pretty cool.