Minimalistic in Lima

After a long bus trip we arrived in Lima. We went to the apartment where the guys who would host us lived. When we stood outside their door there was a window in the door open and through it we could see two guys in their underwear lying passed out on two mattresses on the floor. I came to think about the movie Trainspotting. Chris and I looked at each other “Really?” but since both of us were extremely tired after the bus trip we rang the bell. The guys woke up and after their red eyes had adjusted to the light they opened the door. Happy but hungover and oozing booze they let us in and it turned out neither of them were our hosts. Apparently they were just two couchsurfers like us. We got a little tour around the apartment and in another room on another mattress we finally found one of our hosts. We laughed a lot since the whole thing was very comic. It turned out they used their apartment as a free hostel for backpackers. People came and went every day. The record of people staying there at the same time was 13. Imagine that! The only difference between their apartment and a hostel was the simple thing that a hostel has furniture. Their apartment would be the picture in a dictionary showing the definition of minimalistic. Everything inside was gifts. The only thing they had paid for with their own money was their blender but the blender was broken.

A different and special place in other words. We met some fun people and one night they had a small party in the apartment where we really got to practice our spanish.

Unfortunately, Chris got food poisoned almost instantly after we arrived and the day after I as well and we ended up staying three nights in Lima before going further.

Next stop was Cusco but since there was a bus strike we had problems finding a bus. Luckily we heard about one company going so we bought tickets and later that day we were off.

Esteffi

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Steffi & Chris on January 20, 2010 from Lima, Peru

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