Mirabus

For my birthday, Reada and Dave took me on a tour of Lima on the Mirabus. It was so much fun!! I'm a fan of bus tours - you get to see lots of places from a great vantage point and, usually, you get lots of information about the places you are seeing. Of course, all the information here was in Spanish, but it was still fun to see all the sights. It was a 3 hour tour and we went all over the city. It was a great birthday present and a great way to end my first year in Lima. I've been feeling a little anti-Lima lately (too much traffic, gross pollution, and little things that are frustrating about living here) and this tour made me like the city again. It was nice to see it looking so beautiful, especially since beautiful is not a word I would regularly use to describe Lima. It is nice to think I am leaving for break feeling good about the city and looking forward to coming back and exploring more of it.

Reada and I on the bus. We bundled up since it is winter and pretty chilly, but we still wanted to be able to sit on the top, open part of the bus.
This is a museum in Central Lima. All the buildings downtown are lit beautifully. My camera doesn't do well with night shots, but I got a few to come out.
The Plaza de Armas, the main square in Central Lima. There is a church in this square where Francisco Pizzarro is buried. And all the buildings along the square, except the church, are this beautiful dark yellow color, with dark wood balconies. It is gorgeous.
A building in Plaza San Martin, the other major square in Central Lima. We stopped in this square at the Hotel Bolivar to have coffee and sandwiches. It was a nice break in the tour.