I’ve been in Peru little over a week now and I have one word to summarise. High!

I spent three days in Miraflores, Lima, which is really pretty and very western. There are big shopping malls, wide roads and nice places to eat. I even managed to find an english speaking hairdresser for my long-needed haircut. The rest of Lima is pretty nasty however.
Miraflores is clearly the affluent tourist area with well dressed people and police everywhere keeping the scum out. The rest of Lima consists of ghetto after ghetto in a city of nearly 10m. Despite the hostel owners warnings of a bus strike, it was easy to travel from Lima down to Pisco, Nasca and Arequipa by public bus

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