We got a 4 soles ($1.25) taxi to Ica and caught a local bus (Soyuz Peru Bus Line) for Nasca; a town with little (OK, nothing) to offer except the famous Nasca lines believed to have been created by the ancient people of the area. (For more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines). We had a few [...]
Sun, Sand and Wine
We left Lima at 7:30am on the upscale Cruz Del Sur bus line; for the extra price you get to play a game of BINGO (better brush up on your Spanish because the Spanish number announced by the attendant is not always the same as what she announces it to be in [...]
Departure morning started at 6 AM: last minute packing, a ride to the metro (thanks Nick!), the metro to Washington National (Cynthia reaffirming that riding the train “backwards” does make her ill), all culminating in a rather uneventful flight to Miami. As we waited at the only bar in terminal D for our scheduled 4:30 [...]