Ok i know that many people that i already got my bag stolen on the bus to lima so i won´t write about it much. This is how it happened. Got a bus from cusco to nasca, where i took a flight over the famous nasca lines, which i have no photos of. That bus ride took 12 hours. Ok then i switched buses onto the common bus to Ica, which was 4 hours, where i then transfered again to another bus to lima which took another 5 hours. On the last bus ride i was sitting in an aisle seat and a woman was sitting next to the window.
When i´m riding a bus i always check beneath the seat to see if its possible to get something stolen from behind and i remember it clearly that there was some sort of foot rest under all the seats and that it would be exetremely difficult to steal something, well not so. On these buses people are jumping off and on all the frigging time, there are no ¨bus stops¨. And this woman got up and wanted to get out so i had to get up and get in the aisle and then literally 10 secs of not putting my foot on my bag i sat down and it was gone, i yelled, i got robbed, in spanish of course, but noone said anything, no one did anything. and i knew instantly that the thief had already split.
So the way backpackers travel is they dont have reservations for hostels persay. We have our lonelyplanet, when we arrive in a new city we take a taxi to the area where there are many hostels. Well i just arrived in lima, a city of 7million people, one of the most dangerous places in south america, without a place reserved and without my bible, the only book that can help you in south america, my lonely planet. Soooo i was freakin out a bit. The bus company set me up with a free taxi ride, whoaa thanx, to the police station and i had a report written up and then they got a cab and i used their internet to get a place to stay. So that´s that. Took longer than i expected.
Ok now lima. I stayed in the nice part of town, miraflores. Which is very upscale, very western, but not soo interesting, it felt like a nice part of miami or orlando. There were pizza huts, burger kings, even had a hooter´s, where i watched the super bowl and had some killer wings. Lima has one of the nicest malls i have ever been to called larcomar which is built into a cliff by the ocean beach, very beautiful and at night its amazing. So i spent a few days tracking down another bible, lonely planet guide, and just kindof chilled and had a nice calm down from the robbery. The historical center isnt that impressive so after 4 days i was out, see ya peru, had a long bus ride, 36 hours all together, to get to my next destination, quito equador!
