In depth recounting of my global wandering
Our tour continues. Next, we stepped outside the hotel and stood at the corner of Jirón de la Unión and Jirón Ocoña facing this building. Jirón Ocoña is lined with casas de cambio or money exchanges. According to Berner, this particular …
The title of today’s post is more than simply in the key of a musical pun. It’s intended to hint that several aspects of Lima, if put on a graph, would generate a relatively flat line. I’ll start with the …
I don’t know how the “rules” of Lima driving came to be but I can provide some explanation of what gave rise to the traffic (beyond having 11,000 people per square kilometer). For that, we need to take a look …
Before we get to Lima, I want to share my thoughts about driving (or in my case being driven) in South America. I touched upon the subject when I wrote about the traffic congestion in La Paz and El Alto. …
This entry was originally part of the post titled Inka-dink-khipu because it was relevant to our bus ride from Ollantaytambo to Cusco. As I went through the process of creating shorter posts, this felt like the most natural point to …