Downtown Lima

Today was a big day. We walked downtown Lima. We saw the mayoral building, the Governator's palace, and a Franciscan monastery. The Monastery was definitely the highlight as we could go in it and it was filled with beautiful paintings, carvings, architecture etc. It also held the bones of 25,000+ monks and citizens of Lima from the sixteenth century to now.

We did more important things today though. We shopped for two meals at the grocery store and it cost the equivalent of half the dinner we ate yesterday. We took a taxi into town and did not get swindled, we took public transit home and didn't get lost (thank God for kind locals), we bought bus tickets to Ica, planned if we were going North or South, and made some acquaintances who were experienced travellers. We also showered, so we've got that going for us. We are now going to make dinner and hang out in the hostel for the evening.

Tomorrow is a travel day; catching the bus at 7 up at 5:30.