Lima again.....with some interesting pottery!

So after a few drinks we`ll see how this blog goes! We had some drinks and a bucket with 7 shots in it for 2.50. Breaking the bank I know!

Getting to Lima with our Norwegian friends was a doddle, rocking up at a different hostel to last time but still in Miraflores. It was literally over the street though, not exactly exploring the city! We got in pretty early though and unsurprisingly our room wasn`t ready so they unlocked the tv room and let us sleep in there on the bean bags.

Knowing that the kebab place was over the road that we had visited on our first lima visit, we couldn`t be arsed to look around for food so went back there and ordered the kebab which was possibly the best kebab we have ever tasted! It wasn`t like English 3am kebabs, it was actually proper meat and it was lightly curried and it was just awesome!

Getting back to the hostel we met back up with the Norwegians we travelled here with and got involved with some drinking games that the hostel put on (which was just ring of fire). With drinking in full swing I found myself out of drink and was looking for a way to get some more alcohol. No one really knows how it came it about but the Norwegian guy bet me that I wouldn`t suck on his big toe for a long island iced tea (obvisouly didn`t know me well enough) so exactly that I did, and it wasn`t just a little lick, I got the whole thing in there and earnt my long island, much to the disgust of Jen who had to actually move away from the table as it made her feel ill! I didn`t care though, free long island iced tea. Bonus.

Toe sucking done with, we headed out to hit the club. Me being a little drunk I was in Maccy D`s mood so we strolled over the road to the 24 hour Maccy D`s at 2am only to find that the so called 24 hour fast food joint had actually just closed only to reopen at 10am. Being quite drunk I was absolutely disgusted and threw a little tantrum and Jen had to end up taking me home leaving the Norwegians to go out by themselves.

The next day I was oblivious to what had happened the night before and we took on the cultural activity of going all the way out of town to a museum which was actually pretty cool. It had a whole bunch of pottery and other cool stuff from Peruvian history including all the stuff which came before the Incas (which is actually a lot!), such as this shizzle below.

 

This crazy little thing which looks like a bunch of knots on some sting (which is exactly what it is) was the Inkans way of communication. Obviously not bright enough to come up with email, telephones or even the carrier pigeon back then, they developed a way of comminicating by putting dates and things in a sequence of knots on strings and then sending a runner for 120 miles a day to take a message. They still haven`t worked out what these knots mean to this day but still pretty dam interesting.

 

Different to pretty much all museums (as Jen pointed out, suppose that degree came in handy for something), is that they allowed you to go into their storage room where they had literally thousands or artifacts which didn`t make the display room which was pretty cool to see.

Finally we looked around the erotic section of the museum where they stored pots with massive members (if you will) as they valued the god of fertility mainly for their lands so that they could grow crops. Well that`s the official story, I just think they were somewhat horny!

 

 Fertility ehhhhh?!

 

 Hmmmmm......

 

 

The next day and being back in Lima I obviously had to go and check out more footy shirts so we went back to the big market and had a look around, much to Jen`s pleasure. She sure loves checking out footy shirts. She`s so used to it now that she can actually tell what most random shirts are!

After a look around the same old market, it was time for something new so we went to the catacombs located underneath the monastary in the centre of Lima. Getting there, we paid our entrance fee and waited for the English tour, with 3 Spanish tours going infront of us, we wondered if an English tour was ever going to happen after waiting for about half an hour. But finally us and one other couple were called for the English tour.

It was such a bizarre place when we finally walked around, with hundreds of human remains, the weirdest of which was this tomb where they decided to lay the bones out in some kind of circular pattern.

Coming back from town we swung by the famous world record breaking fountain park which was pretty cool. They had about 13 different fountains, all in different styles, with the water lit up in different colours.

They had a walk through tunnel fountain where it was pretty impossible to walk through without getting a soaking!

Jen was after a dramatic photo again and went for this one for the blog.

And this was the tallest of the lot, with the Allianz Lima stadium in the background (more interesting than the actual fountains if you ask me!)

Lima part 2 was finished after some interesting events. Time for our first flight since flying out to Rio, to Cusco this time....where we would meet Jen`s mates from home to take on the mighty Inka trail up to Macchu Picchu.