Day two

Joel here. The traffic here is insane. Many intersections are unmarked so drivers just honk and dont slow down. In fact I think they speed up when they see pedestrians. We have met a lot of cool people at our hostel, which is supposed to be the second best in South America, so I guess that means its all downhill from here. Weve met people from argentina, texas, kentucky, australia, england. And we have been able figure out how we will get out of Lima, to do so we have to take a bus out of the Miraflores bubble once tomorrow to get our tickets and again the next day to take the bus. So hopefully all goes well on that bit of our adventure. The bus costs about 30 cents US to go most places in Lima. Everything here is sooo cheap. 650ml bottles of cervesa cost 2.30 nuevo soles, which is about 80 cents US. Jen bought a really nice skirt for about 5 nuevo soles. We found out today that weve been drinking the local water without knowing it. At the hostel they have a big Jug of water like what my parents have down on the farm. Apperently its tap water. Good thing we took the anti-e-coli meds before we left. Its really hot and muggy, I have burned my face, Jen used sun screen. grrr. We went for a long walk today along the ocean cliffs of Miraflores, its a pretty western area, we found a starbucks and little piece of me died inside. It doesnt look like well go to bolivia from peru. Its the rainy season and from what we here from other travellers the only way to get there is by flying, as the roads are more sketchy than usual. So our next stop will probably be Paracas, where we will take a boat ride over to islas ballestas, aka "the poor mans galapagos" where we will see our first penguins! Jen is posting some photos to facebook of today, but tomorrow we are going to take one of those dorky open air double decker tourist buses to see more of the city so we will have more pics then.