Day 2 in Southie

We arrived in Lima yesterday at 5am. The German / Peruvian Whose house we are keeping some mountaineering luggage, greet us in his bathrobe and was a little confused. Meryl and I soon remembered we made ourselves at home. Lima has some very nice and clean areas such as Miraflores. It reminded me of downtown Honolulu in many parts. Surfers lined the coast for the breaks but had to dodge the garbage and sewage that is dumped there from the Lima population. The traffic and taxi drivers were exactly what i expected Once We hit main, dirty Lima. Garbage everywhere and more stray dogs than you could imagine. None of the animals here are spayed or neutered, and i have seen swinging dog more than i ever had balls wishes! Bob Barker would go bananas down here. We boarded a double decker bus in Lima for Huaraz. An 8 hour ride. We sat on the top, above the bus driver in front of the huge window and drove through Lima crazy traffic. We followed the coast for a few hours and then headed into the mountains going from sea level to 11,000 feet. Now we are in Huaraz Which in a mixture of a beautiful mountian busseling european village and a shanty town with stray dogs and street venders selling pigs heads and quail eggs. Craggy mountains surround Huaraz, including the tallest in Peru, Huascaran.