Day 3 Downtown

We are getting better with taxis and negotiating prices.  We took a taxi to central Lima this morning. It happened to be a Yaris like I drive. I told the driver that I drive one too, "you must push it a lot," he remarked.

We walked around Central Lima for the morning and early afternoon. There were lots of administrative buildings and the usual tourist traps. I bought some postcards that would originally cost 30 Sols but got him down to 5 (around $2.00). We visited the Church of St Francis and the catacombs below. Below were tens of thousands of femur bones and many skulls too. Oddly enough that made us hungry.

The last few days we have had very nice but expensive lunches. We were looking for a simple meal. But a vegetarian meal is tough to find with fixed menus at lunch.    We got talking to this Bolivian dude what took us to a restaurant. We sat down and lots of Spanish was said. Luckily we knew this was some sort of scam so we said No Almuerzo a bunch so they never made us lunch. Our drinks ended up costing 60 Sols which was a total ripoff. We argued a bunch then left, off in search of food and stuff. 

We caught a sweet cab back to Miraflores (same Daewoo below).

Nice lunch/dinner at Cafe Cafe. Our total food and drinks was less than the scam restaurant downtown!

Tomorrow we move to the start hotel of our tour. The tour starts tomorrow but we leave Lima Sunday for the coast.