We flew from Cuzco to Lima. It’s a 25 hour bus ride, or just an hour in a plane. The price difference wasn’t that much – internal flights are pretty good here, definitely check out Skyscanner for good* deals (except in Colombia, there use – or at least check out – Viva Colombia. We didn’t know about that one, and it would have saved us 600USD!
Anyway, Lima Lima Lima. Not as nice as Cuzco. We used AirBnB to find a place. It was pretty cheap, fairly central, had a nice little local restaurant down the road which served big portions and yumbly Ceviche. We went for a nice walk around Miraflores, ate some churros in chocolate sauce. Humid days.
Probably the highlight was the Larco museum which was great. They brought you through the history of the major civilisations of South America. Like most places, the latest civilisation built on top of the last one and extended. When people think of South America (or at least when I do) the “Incas” is what springs to mind, but they were only around from 13th Century to the mid 16th, not that long. “Civilisation” goes back to 8,000BC (probably more). Larco traces these civilisations through their ceramics and textiles mainly, and some metalwork.
It was quite cool that they left the museums storerooms open too, so you can see all the other articles they have in the collection.
Finally in the museum, there was a pretty extensive erotica section of pottery. Those Gods did enjoy fertilising the planet.
Also, while we were in Lima, we heard about the Earthquake in Ecuador. Poor people. We know what destructive earthquakes are like, since we were in the Christchurch quake.. It didn’t take much discussion to decide to fly from Lima to Colombia skipping Ecuador entirely. I feel very very sorry for what Ecuador must be going through. Christchurch 5 years after our quakes is still mostly roadworks and empty building sites where buildings have been demolished. It will take Ecuador years and years to get over this. And remember, while the story will go out of the news, the people there will be experiencing daily earthquakes for months and months, if not years. It is not just a “quake”, there will be thousands.
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