welcome back to our channel or welcome to our channel if you're new here we're eric
and sarah and we've been traveling around ecuador for the last six months but we finally
made it to peru so if you're interested in ecuador or our ecuador series we are going
to link a playlist just up here but if you're interested in peru subscribe right now because
we are going to be here for the next couple of months and to start off our peru series
we're here in lima which is a very cool city it's actually the second biggest capital to
be built on a desert and lima has a population of almost 10 million people which is actually
a third of the population of all of peru which is crazy and because there's so many people
here it actually is made up of 43 districts that make up metropolitan lima which is really
cool and each one is pretty much its own town with its own vibe so we're going to be exploring
a few of them today and showing you what it's like here in lima so without further ado let's
get going
so the first district we're going to show you here in lima is called barranco this is
actually the neighborhood we're staying in it's a really beautiful neighborhood it's
known as the romantic district and it's just full of murals and beautiful parks some statues
and a lot of history it's really really gorgeous place to come and walk around and it has one
of our favorite murals we've seen in all of lima this one right behind us and it is a
beautiful mural of all of the ancestors of lima or just peru in general and above it
it says equilibrio or equilibrium and it's just a really beautiful representation of
the multiculturalism that is peru
so as you can see behind us there is the famous bridge of sighs and the legend has it that
if you walk across with your significant other while holding hands and holding your breath
and you make it across you will stay together forever now we don't really need to do that
because we know we're gonna be together forever but we're gonna do it anyways just for extra
luck
all right let's catch a one last fresh breathe
yay we're gonna be together forever how great it is meant to be perfect wow i feel already
like wow wow no we know we're going to be together forever incredible that's all i needed
was that bridge thanks thanks bridge and walking down from the bridge actually just down to
the water you can just walk through this alleyway kind of just down and there's all these restaurants
and beautiful buildings and colors on the side and uh yeah it's beautiful it's beautiful
but don't forget if you walk all the way down the water you gotta walk all the way back
up made that mistake before
so as you can tell it is a little bit grey here in lima we've been here for a couple
weeks and it's been like this pretty much every single day sometimes you'll have a little
bit of sun come through but it's really not that prominent and often it's actually quite
cold here so we're here during the south american winter you could probably come here at a different
time of year and it's different weather it's quite cold like i said but there are still
people who are surfing so i don't know what that says about people from lima but they're
pretty brave in my opinion and of course just as we start talking trash about the weather
it gets nice and sunny this is so unusual for us if you watch any of our ecuador videos
we have the worst luck with weather it always rains brutal and i'm hoping this is a new
sign that in peru we're just going to have great luck with weather because it's changing
this is like one of three days of sun we've had in like a month so
well we made it to beautiful miraflores which is just another district here in lima probably
the most popular one or more most famous one in lima if you look at pictures of lima you
usually have this kind of background with the beautiful just absolute cliffs off the
side to what i love about lima is actually yeah like what sarah says like the cliffs
here you can see just it meets ocean and then you have the city and it's really cool because
there's actually a highway that goes right there yeah and there's a malecon on the top
level and along the ocean on the bottom so there's just like so many places to walk and
it's really beautiful this is definitely the best place to come and just walk around and
yeah hang out
so there's a bunch of different parks to explore in miraflores there's a lighthouse park and
right now we're at parque del amor which has this beautiful statue behind of these people
kissing so if this park looks familiar to you there's actually a park that it was based
on in barcelona called parque guell and uh yeah so there's all these different like different
tiles colorful tiles all around it and it's just actually a really beautiful park yeah
it's really beautiful i asked eric if we could recreate this statue and make a picture but
eric said no so it's because it's weird it's a weird thing to ask i think it would have
been funny but yeah anyways um yeah it's a really cool park make sure you come explore
in miraflores and uh we try to share some of these facts about things that we're learning
as we go but obviously we're not experts on lima so if there's anything cool you know
about lima or these places we're going make sure to comment below because we'd love to
yeah learn yes definitely
wow this is sweet look at this place
i like it so after a long walk we're pretty hungry so it's time for some food and we're
going with ceviche which is probably the most famous peruvian dish from what we've heard
and yeah it's gonna be delicious let's try it out
what is it so good well this one's like a mixed platter but usually like fish sometimes
other seafood and essentially like a bunch of lime that kind of um prepares those things
i don't know how to explain that and then there's like a sweet potato to kind of counteract
the limeness and then we got some corn it's really delicious
and how is it i love ceviche stuff is delicious it's actually different than what it was in
ecuador ecuador was actually a lot more like soupy they actually like it would basically
be fish in a soup broth than they called it ceviche whereas here even the fish there was
like actually cooked yeah that's right it's raw yeah it's actually more raw fish here
so it's actually it's just a bit of a different thing than in ecuador which is kind of cool
but this is like the actual authentic uh peruvian ceviche which is actually like the original
ceviche so yeah actually i don't know if i should say that because ecuadorians might
get mad at me
if you want to see more peruvian food make sure you subscribe because we're going to
be going on a full food tour next week and it's going to be really awesome we're going
to show you a bunch of different peruvian foods and just try them all out so make sure
you subscribe to our channel so you don't miss that video next saturday
yeah lima is great because you can use uber and cabify to get around and so we're on to
our next spot which is plaza de armas in the middle of the city so we're gonna have to
go on a little bit of a drive here i think it's gonna be not too long hopefully not too
long but we'll keep you posted okay so the road was closed so we had to uh walk the last
two blocks but man i'm already like this is crazy so surprised this is so different than
the other neighborhood this the architecture all the different yeah the buildings are just
completely different everything's just really old and like colon i don't even know colonial
style almost yeah totally really cool i'm excited to explore yeah i'm really glad we
actually came here because we weren't going to come here we actually second guessed ourselves
we weren't thinking of coming here but probably like a half hour drive to the center totally
but wow okay really i'm really excited wow look how beautiful this is
wow that's incredible oh i probably shouldn't film the uh army man they might freak out
at me you're like right in their face
wow this is so cool so this is and it wow just so beautiful i i was expecting like a
full square of these beautiful buildings pretty sure that's the presidential building over
there which is really cool and this is awesome i'm excited to walk around here so it looks
like we got here just at the right time because there's a band playing in the presidential
building and it's amazing because they're actually just like walking around and playing
this amazing music i love it it's beautiful not sure what the occasion is but i love it
no idea comment below if you know what's happening yeah tell us what's happening we're assuming
changing the guard but this seems like a little much for that i don't think it's a changing
of the guard i think that's a little excessive okay so it is the changing of the guard we
found out and i think the funniest part about uh just like andean culture in these countries
is that they love this song it's el condor pasa and it's just like they play it on different
flutes they play for the changing of the guard like they just love the song el condor pasa
it's hilarious and this is like a slow like a very slow version yes slow band version
i love it it's awesome so good
i gotta say i'm slightly obsessed with these buildings right now i'm not really or i didn't
think i was very into architecture but this is like really cool it's so beautiful it's
amazing beautiful i could walk around here all day yeah plaza de armas definitely do
not miss this so we had heard of plaza de armas before in this area and how beautiful
the architecture is and it's absolutely stunning this is super cool super amazing yeah it's
definitely worth coming here but we also heard about uh san francisco church which is where
we are right now and we're kind of looking for something a little bit more unique today
to do today other than just walking around so we're gonna go explore some catacombs that
are under this church behind us yeah so let's go check that out
well that was way cooler than i even expected it to be definitely if you're in the area
in plaza de armas make sure you come to this church and do the tour it's only 15 soles
which is definitely worth it only takes an hour and it was really cool all the art inside
the church was super cool the catacombs are really cool yeah yeah and another thing is
that if you're going to plaza de armas anyways there's also a lot of people coming up to
us and giving us like walking tours some people even like offered us free walking tours and
a lot of them spoke english as well so that's an option as well if you come to this area
so we wanted to show you a little bit of lima we obviously didn't do everything that we
could do in lima that would be impossible uh but yeah this is this is just a small picture
of what we we wanted to check out here yeah there's a lot of cool museums around as well
but you can't film in any of them as well so we didn't want to do too many that's right
breaking the rule things totally so yeah if you enjoyed this video uh just you know throw
a like down and maybe subscribe to our channel if you want to see more of peru and yeah that
pretty much sums up our video yeah and we'll see in the next one