Hey there world travelers and buenas dias Lima Peru.
So, we are actually up bright and early. It's 5 o'clock in the morning. We are heading
down. We're in the elevator right now heading down to meet our driver because
we have a day of fun activities planned. We're doing the Huacachina, oh we're
getting out of the elevator, the Huacachina trail, sand dunes.
And, it's going to be pretty exciting. I think he's outside waiting for us right now. I can see him. We're in
like three hours of sleep, not even, a little stir-crazy, but here we go, fun
adventures shall begin. We're all set and ready to go. We got our wonderful new two
guides here in the car taking us on our adventure. Say, hi, everybody. Say hola. Hi.
We have about three and a half hours before we get there. We definitely need some
coffee, but I think during those three and a half hours, Dave and I are going to
actually get a little snooze, just a little snooze. We slept, what, maybe two hours last night, so maybe we will
get a couple more hours of sleep. Yes, I think that's just about right.
We are definitely going to try to get some sleep. We will see you guys in about three hours.
So we're at a rest stop here and our first stop after this
is going to be the Ballestas Islands, which should be pretty interesting. We have a
private boat tour and there's supposed to be some really cool wildlife out there, so it should be pretty cool.
Yeah, we're excited to see that, but first up we need some coffee.
Damn right. And right behind us is some coffee so we're getting some coffee. Coffee!
Cheers
That is the best stuff ever.
So, right now we are at the Paracas seaport and getting ready to board the
boat. Yeah, we're heading out to the Ballestas Islands, right. Yeah, so it should be fun.
We can see some sea lions and some small, penguins, small penguins, some birds, and who
knows what else. It will be pretty cool.
So we are chilling here waiting, just about to get on the boat with a lot of people back there.
Yes, definitely a big the tourist area here. Big tourist area here. We are all set. We are in the front the boat
here. Guarantee enjoy this adventure. We have the El Capitan here. All set ready to go. All set ready to go.
This is kind of a very popular event here, where you get these tours and with
a bunch of boats here so there's a certain time of day that they do this
because the tides are right where they need to be for the tourist side of
things. This eventually then turns into what is like a fishing pier and a lot
of the boats out here that you'll see kind of have fishing and things of that nature.
So, we're getting ready to take off right now to see what this is about,
but pretty excited, so we'll see what we have going on here. Here we go.
Excuse me, when is the next boat? Hello, excuse me, come back. It was interesting to say the least.
We'll talk a little bit more later, about our personal experience in terms
of what we feel you should you know look out for when you're booking a trip like
this, but you did get to see some really interesting wildlife. The pelicans, the
cormorants, right, the sea lions were cool. We saw a lot of baby sea lions with their moms. So I think we need
to go get something to drink before we take our next adventure, which is going to be
the Huacachina, Ica, the dunes. So, we're pretty excited we have a private dune
buggy ride coming up here in Huacachina. The place looks pretty awesome, really out of
this world, really cool. It's funny we actually heard a story that a Saudi
prince brought camels over here and I don't think they fared too well. It is kind
of a sad story in the end. 20 of them. Yeah, and apparently they didn't survive so it
is sad, but they tried to make a little kind of Middle East here in Peru. It
is pretty hot, right, oh my goodness. Looks like a little bit of Mad Max here.
All these dune buggy's look pretty cool.
So, we are in Boogie, Vladimir's personal ride called Boogie.
We are just super excited here, ready to get bumpy. I don't have a helmet. I don't
know my head's going to go bumpy, bumpy, but let's see how this goes!
Oh my God, we're doing it!
Oh, hit the deck! Ahhh, hit the deck! Oh, I'm fine. I'm all sandy!
Alright
You've got to see this.
Nice
I'll run by you. I'll run by you, like you're moving!
All right, so we just came from the sand dunes at Ica. We had a really good time. It was a
lot of fun and now we are at el Catador. I am looking at the menu here. It is actually a
local favorite here just outside Ica and we're getting some local specialties.
It should be pretty cool. We're getting something, what's it called David?
Carapulca con sopa seca and Carapulcra con arroz verde. Right, which the arroz verde, that's
what I am getting, the green rice and the sopa seca is the spaghetti version you're
getting. It should be really tasty. They actually came out with it. It has
pork in it, which is really cool. We're starving. So, we got some really
interesting drinks here, not sure of the name of them. I find it a little bit
refreshing. It's like agua something, you guys may
even know. If you know, this common drink around here, leave it in the
comments below we would love to hear that.
Yeah, I am going to give this a shot. It looks really good. It smells awesome too.
It smells really good, really fresh. One thing that we've found in Peru so far is that the food
is really fresh and tasty. It's really good stuff. I need a knife to cut the pork.
I like to get it all mixed up.
I don't know how they eat it, but this is how I'm going to eat it, mix it all together here.
Get a little spaghetti, sauce
And just watch me slobber this stuff in
It is really good, really good, really fresh.
You know, not a strong flavor, but it's a really, really nice, nice flavor. Not too spicy either. I just like it overall.
It tastes fresh, that's all I can really think about as I eat it. I love the pork and the spaghetti is nice.
It's not, it's not soggy at all. It's kind of a nice texture to it as well.
Alright, so I'm going to try mine. Same dish. It's got the nice pork in here as well.
And it seems pretty tender. I love the fact that it has like potatoes
inside of this as well, with the nice kind of creamy broth and the grain rice.
So, I'm like Dave. I'm going to mix mine in there. I'm going to mix mine in
there, going to cut a piece of pork here, going to give this a shot.
It almost has like a tomato base kind of feel. The pork, the pork is a little, kind of chewy,
which is interesting, because the outside looks like it would be a little crunchy, but it's not
but the rice, you know I think blending it all together
suddenly gives like a combination of flavors and you can actually,
you know, this green rice here, is like a, it almost has a like a pesto, smells like a pesto. Yes, looks like it.
But, it is really tasty, really delicious. And, I am with Dave on this one. Definitely give this one a thumbs up.
Hey, can I take you home? Yes, can I take you home? I want to take you home. Bye buddies. Bye. Adios.
So, we are at the oldest fountain here in Lima, Peru, and traditionally this name is
called the fertility fountain which, which got its name from the fact that
supposedly if you notice all the statues that are placed around this here there
is a they're all kind of humping, or all having, having sexual relations. Exactly.
So, what happens is that you come here, I guess it's allowing you to be able to have children.
Exactly, jump in that water. So, on July 28th is their Independence Day,
but on July 26th, this here they tend to fill with Pisco, Pisco Sour.
You can come here and have all the Pisco you want, so you
definitely come check out the city, the city center. It's just got amazing
buildings as you can see all around us. Every one of these buildings has some
amazing architectural detail but, on top of that, there is some rich history that you
can discover behind being here. I know I'm making you guys all dizzy and I'm
getting dizzy myself, but I just thought I wanted to show you guys this anyway.
So, we're ending up our day, what a long day, we're ending it up at a restaurant
here that apparently has decent ceviche. It's called, what the heck is it called?
I don't even know. Sabor a Peru, yes, Sabor a Peru. And it's,
we're going to have ceviche. So, we're dying to try ceviche since we're
here in Lima for this last night, but we'll see what happens. We're going to
Yeah, it is right down at the city center so we are paying top dollar for it, that's true, it's city center, and
it's not cheap. It has to be good right? It has to be good.
So, here's my first ceviche. Late at night in Lima, Peru, right down
at Central Station. It's really close. It's going to be interesting, but I got to tell you,
it smells great. I've never had it before. He's never had ceviche, or anything raw fish. So let's
see how this goes. Wow, it's actually darn good. Whoa, all right I am up to try this here, looks like we
have a little lemon broth going on here, with some of their native corn, which is
always this big kind of nice kernels. We actually had this earlier, which was, I think,
which was breakfast or something, a snack that we had that had this big
corn. But, they have it all the time it looks like. It was really, really tasty. Looks
like that might be a sweet potato and it's kind of nice and squishy with the
lemon juice. I'm not sure with this is. It looks almost like seaweed like and
we'll give that a try in a minute, but I'm dying to try this whitefish. It looks
really nice I'm going to try and get that flavor of the lemon juice at the bottom
of that and give this a try. Let's see what it tastes like, a little onion
That is so, oh it's so good. You don't, you know initially you're thinking it's
going to have like a fishy kind of taste. It doesn't have a fishy taste at all. And
you have that nice lemon, kind of a lemony broth with that red onion.
It has a nice little spice in there. So very tasty, very good. Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with Dave
on this one. It is definitely a thumbs-up, and obviously Peru is known for its
ceviche, so it's, we weren't sure about this place but now we are. It's
definitely, it's definitely good. Really good so far. The food has been really good here.
I mean we've had some great recommendations. Lunch today was unbelievable. It's no joke. It
was no joke. We were really hungry, so I have to say sometimes when you're so hungry
everything tastes good. But it's good, fresh. Everything's so fresh. It was so delicious.
We had the pork. It was just wonderful. But we just want to say really quick,
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