Arrived safely yesterday after a long time travelling - to find have been upgraded to a suite in the hotel which includes a sauna and roman bath!! Could get used to this! Now waiting to do a half day tour of the city, it has 9 million inhabitants - very overcast here and humid, about 20 degrees outside. Spoken quite a bit of Spanish to the guide who picked us up from the airport yesterday - need to keep this going throughout the trip.
We can see the Pacific from the rooftop restaurant where we had breakfast but it is so grey the sea and sky are almost the same colour.
We visited the gold museum, which contained some amazing inca and pre-inca pieces, although we did learn of rumours that not all the pieces that had been exhibited in the museum in the past had been genuine.
We also had our first taste of ceviche – the classic dish of Peruvian cuisine consisting of raw fish marinated in lime and onion and it was delicious.
Tomorrow morning we are off flying down to Arequipa in the south where hopefully we will see the sun!
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