Sunday, August 19, 2012

Exploring different districts

Today our beloved peruvian friend, Carolina, took us with her brother to see different districts of Lima. First we went to the catedral of Lima and walked around there for a while just taking photos. Then we took a buss to Cerro San Cristobal, which is a mountain 400m above the sea. There's a huge cross where u can light candles and pray. You are suposed to see whole Lima from there but today it was so foggy we didn't see anything. It was like from the horrormovie Silent Hill, only grey around us and so quiet!

While taking the buss there we drove through a district called Rimac, it is the oldest district in Lima (about 400years old). There were a lot of houses which have been destroyed along the years by earthquakes. It was very different from Miraflores, you could see the poverty. People were living along the mountains really high up and didn't have proper homes. It was cold at the top of the mountain so I can imagine how cold it is at nights in their homes, because they don't have so thick walls. The people living there has to come down the mountain to bring water and then carry the waterbottles hundreds of stairs back up. Seeing this kind of poverty makes me grateful for living in Finland and having a good job and home. And a family that takes care of me! Carolina told me that there are more poverty in the Andes. People in highlands of Peru has it way worse.

After visiting this mountain and district we went to get food in this small gastronomic market, which was outdoors. Carolina and her brother did pay for our food and the visit to Cerro San Cristobal. Unbelievable kind. I ate anticuchos, it is meat with some corn and potato. People were singing and dancing at this gastronomic market and people seemed really happy. This day was the best so far here in Lima :)


                           San Cristobal

It was national childrens day in Peru.




Views on the way up the mountain.

This kind of houses which could easily bee destroyed by an earthquake.



Chef preparing Anticuchos.

Catedral de Lima.

I bought this keyring today for 8 Soles :)


4 comments:

  1. Ihana lukea sun juttuja sieltä maailman toiselta puolen!ja ihania kuvia!:) take care!<3

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  2. oot paljo parempi bloggaaja ko mä, perkele :D pitääkö munki lähtee jonnekki että inspiraatio syttyy! ps. olet söpö ja ikävöin <3

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    1. mitennii enkä oo :D ei mul ois mitää sanottavaa jos oisin kotona mut ku tääl tapahtuu nii paljo kokoaja :D ikävä <3

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    2. haha no mul ei oo ikin mitää sanottavaa ;D rupeen ottaa lisää kuvii ja yritän olla aktiivinen ;) ikäväää gägägägää <3

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