Friday, January 8, 2010

Happy New Year, Lima, Peru

Just a short hop by South American standards (8 hours by bus) and we were back in Lima preparing for our New Year party at the beach.
Our beach house, 120kms south of Lima, on a stretch of private sand and overlooked by guard towers, was fantastic - Thanks Caterina for inviting us and organising rental etc.
After the party we returned to central Lima for a couple more days of sight seeing and shopping before commencing our epic journey to Rio De Janeiro via Buenos Aires.


First things first - supermarket visit! Left to right - Suvi and I, Javier, Moni, Cat, Peter, Laurent & Cat's Dad.


My new job as corn seller.


Mojito practise.


Kukkuu.....
The Peruvian's NY colour is yellow, even the underwear....we decorated the beach house with steamers and balloons.


Preparing to pop the corks at the stroke of mid-night.
Left to right - Rafael, me, Laurent, Peter & Cat's demanding hand :-)


Official time keepers - Jeroen and Cat.


Who is that handsome chap in my firework shot??


Toasting 11 months & 2 weeks of travel....not long to go!


A good one of the cute couple.


We even had our own 'Harley Davidson' for stylish beach transport.


Suvi breaking the speed limit....NOT!


Coming back from the shop - One of my most manly moments of the travel trip!


....and another.


'Hotties' on the veranda....
Moni, Fiorella, Miriam & Suvi.


Our patch of N.Y sand from the cliff top path....


....a great vantage point for dolphin spotting. These guys passed several times every day :-)


A lucky shot....whats that lurking inside the wave????


Our beach house modelled by Suvi...we even had plastic flamingoes in the garden.


Our only sunset in 3 days, the weather was pretty cloudy ....we headed out with the camera for these pic's...


....pounding Pacific at sunset.


Back in central Lima at the Espana Hostel surrounded by parrots, cat, dog and hungry tortoise.


Plaza De Armas, Lima.....


....Xmas decorations at the Plaza.


A reminder that poverty is never far away...one of Lima's favella's.

1 comment:

Cate said...

First time I see this! brought back the so nice memories :) I'm so happy that I was able to be part for some days of your wonderful adventure!