620 Avenida Grau

Sunday

It was our final day in Lima so we had our last showers in the open plan shared bathroom (lol) and headed out to see the last few sights of Lima. The morning consisted of the National Museum which, according to Rough Guides, was the one to see in Lima!

Hoped on our new favourite form of transport (metropolitana) and then managed to work out how to catch one of the local buses (crazy little minibuses) and there we were. The muesum had 7 floors HOWEVER there were only 3 actually open. So we decided to start on the top floor which was called something along the lines of ´Not to be forgotten´. A 150 photo exhibition of the attrocities that affected Peru between 1980-2000. We were both pretty oblivous to what had happened so this was definitely pretty eye opening. We then ended with the other 2 floors which were on a much more cheery note, looking at some traditional and modern art from Peru.

The afternoon consisted of a visit to a local Pre-Inca ruins which were an old temple that was now a mound that looked over the city. The guide was slightly more interested with the skinless dogs that were running around - the National Dog of Peru. Neither of us were great fans and after finidng out they were the national dog, Will said "I hate Peru". He doesn´t - it´s awesome but the dogs are not so great. Anyway that was pretty cool - human sacrifices of stoning woman to death.. bad times. We did have to leave the tour early though because we were conscious not to be late to meet our tour group for Peru for the first time.

Made it back in enough time and headed for our hotel on 620 Avenida Grau. Turns out 620 Avenida Grau is definitely not a hotel. Not the Avenida Grau in the part of town we were anyway. Turns out Lima has multiple Avenida Grau.... FAIL. Taxi ride later though and we made it to our desired destination. Settlled into our luxurious hotel (we say luxious, it just wasn´t a hostal haha.) Met our group and then went out for a traditional Ecuadorian meal and drinks. Good times! There´s quite a few people our age, and some older people. Brits, Aussies and Canadians. ALL GOOD.