We only spent three days in Lima because we were on a schedule. It was plenty of time to recover, see some sights, and enjoy the craziness of traveling in Lima. Before we arrived, we had expected that we wouldn’t enjoy it very much. We were surprised – we actually had a good deal of fun! We spent our time there:
- Visiting the catacombs in the monastery of San Francisco (and seeing all of the skulls)
- Enjoying a CRAZY collectivo ride from central Lima all the way back to our hotel in miraflores (45 minutes to go about 6 miles, and I’ve never been so close to the other traffic on the toad as we were in that bus)
- Hanging out at the South American Explorers clubhouse – good atmosphere, fun people!
- Walking down to the pacific ocean, which was only about 25 minutes from our hotel
- Food – great food all over town!
- Paragliding: we hung out at the paragliding field (about 50m above sea level – you know because the ocean is right there
for an afternoon. Stef had a flight 
, but the wind was so light that no one else could get airborne (in the tandem parachutes)
Funny Marketing Story: I had mistakenly not told the paragliding company exactly which pilot we wanted to fly with, so when the pilot I had spoken with realized that we arrived, he wanted “credit” for us (commission). But I had written down that I first heard about it through a guidebook. So they had a marketing channel attribution problem – they couldn’t tell if I found out about it from him or the guidebook. I had a long chat with Jose, and even tried to put on my consulting hat (since I’ve been helping companies to figure out how to attribute marketing spend and value for the past 8 years or so). However, Jose wasn’t really into it – and our language barrier (primarily my limited Spanish; his English was pretty good) also got in the way. oh well!
Enjoy the rest of our photos from Lima below!
