After 3 flights, 4 security checks (when there should have been 1 haha oops), 2 airplane meals, countless mini naps and one sketchy car ride through Lima, we arrived safely to our temporary home.
Copa Airlines is now my favorite. Southwest is pretty great but Copa is where it’s at. They provided each passenger with a BLANKET (which saved me!) then offered decent food and a bag of cookies! Not to mention the excellent guava pineapple juice. Maybe we should just go on more foreign flights.
This view is from arriving in Panama City, Panama. EVERYTHING is perfectly green!
We were picked up from the airport by the Wu family, the people who own the apartment we are renting. Turns out it is actually their home and they are renting it to us while they go on vacation to the Amazon. Very kind people.
Mr. & Mrs. Wu took us to our first meal in Peru. A restaurant called Chifa Nu Fun. Who would have guessed the first restaurant we attend in South America would be a Chinese place?
A well needed night’s rest and morning sleeping in prepared us well for our first day in the city.
Lucas and Andy (one of the guys on the research team) needed to load surveys on about 12 tablets. The surveys take a while to load. A long while. So we spent the day going from coffee shop to internet cafe to restaurant with wifi trying to find a decent connection.
We stopped for lunch at La Lucha where we ordered sandwiches and this wonderful smoothie. Most pure strawberry smoothie I’ve ever had! Delicious! The food was also reasonably priced for a big city. For roughly $12 we bought two sandwiches, fries and a smoothie. I imagine we will find cheaper food when we travel outside this city of 11 million people.
A beautiful building a block away from our apartment. The door matches my boots. We had to get a picture.
Turns out the “beach” meant reaching a shopping/restaurant center on a cliff above the beach haha. Still beautiful even if we couldn’t easily get to the water. Far too cold to swim anyway.
Can’t wait to see the rest of Lima!