Tourism

We have spent the day in Lima being tourists. I've never really done that before. I haven't
really been a tourist anywhere in Peru but least of all Lima which is a horrible place. It' s
dangerous smelly and stressful and it's usually my plan to get away as soon as
possible.

That said we had a gr eat day, mostly at Lima zoo. I was more than a bit worried about
going to a zoo in Peru imagining all sorts of tortured animals in filthy cages but it really
isn't that bad.
It's a bit strange seeing all these jungle animals living in the desert that is Lima but the y
all looked well.

Here we all are posing in front of a Vulture cage.

But the wildest sounding animal we saw in the whole zoo was actually in the gent's toilets.
I think it was a Tap-ir or possibly a Wilder- basin
Wilder Basin

Michael particularly liked the tigers and panther and I loved watching the seals swim
under water. We had planned on going to see a park full of colour ed fountains at night
but I guess the jet lag got the better of us and we slept on the bus on the way back to
the house we ate staying in.
Michael really liked the popcorn he bought on the street today and he really loved the
drink Chicha Morada that we had with o yr chips in the evening.
He didn't like the long long long bus ride because he was very thirsty.
After the second night sleeping like the dead we are getting over the journey to Peru and
ready to go on over the Andes t o Huancayo.