After some sleep, we made a Starbucks run and headed downtown. Traffic was pretty mild today as it's a Sunday. But, as we got closer to downtown, we found many of the streets were closed due to some kind of festival. We parked in a different location and headed towards the cathedral....and that's where we found the big street festival going on. As the kids took a tour of the catacombs, we found out that there was a celebration of the Virgin of Copacabana, as well as they were having a festival for the town of Puno, which is about a 20 hour drive southeast of Lima. What amazing outfits - such detail! Lots of band - tons of people - it was crazy! We headed to the Plaza de Armas - they were over there too - crazy busy downtown today! On our way back to the vehicles we grabbed some churros - you know they are the best when there is a line of locals waiting to buy one!
Next stop was lunch. We went to the Green Coast along the Pacific. Green because of the hillsides but also because of the money - it's the richy rich area of Lima. We went the Larcomar Mall, built into the cliffside and ate lunch at Papacho's. Soooo yummy!! We did a drive-by tour of Barranco, a very Bohemian part of Lima, and then headed back to the apartment for some down time.
We sorted thru donations suitcases - just in awe of what people so generously have given, and at Papa John's pizza!
Day 2 - success!!! Excited for tomorrow when we go up to Las Lomas!
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