Peru - Lima

Lima is nice! After San Jose, Costa Rica and Guatemala City (they were both sorta dumpy), our expectation of big cities was pretty low, but Lima is a nice surprise. It is also a gigantic city, with population of over 8 million. We gave up trying to figure out the city bus system and took cabs everywhere, thus breaking one of the ´backpacker´ commandments and joining the ranks of rich American tourists.

In Mexico, during a fit of temporary insanity brought on by the opressive heat, I almost threw away my thick fleece top. Good thing Bill stopped me, because it gets very chilly here at night. And I swear our hotel room is actually colder than outside.

Yesterday, we were walking back to our hotel from dinner (during which we had sampled the Peruvian national drink pisco sour), and we passed a night club named ¨Canadian.¨ Easily pursuaded in our happy state, we let the bouncer lead us into the small club and seat us. It seemed like an after-work type place, as most of the men were still in their suits. The women, on the other hand, were mostly girls barely wearing tight clothes. Initially we thought they were ´working´girls, but on further observation, decided that they worked for the club. Their job seemed to be to look pretty, occasionally dance with the suits and dance with each other when they got bored. It was fun in a seedy kind of way.

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Bonus Item: Inca Kola! Very popular. Tastes like bubble gum.