Day 96 - Through the fog

Miraflores, Lima

I thought he lived in the UK?

This part of Lima is so nice, modern and clean it's hard to believe you are in Peru, we really haven't come across a city like this since we left Santiago. However we hadn't really read the fine print when we thought Miraflores would be a nice place to take a travelling break. There is a nice modern shopping and restaurant complex on the edge of the cliff overlooking the ocean but for the majority of days at this time of the year Lima is overcast pretty much all day and blanketed in a thick fog in the mornings.

Miraflores has a lovely path that goes for miles along the cliff tops with lots of different parks along the way with various themes and sculptures, a really nice way to spend some hours. We walked north a fair distance, then returned along the beach edge. The beach is covered in rocks, no sand, and as the waves crash they move the rocks over each other and make quite a sound.

You should see this from the other side

We walked past the local surf schools, all of them tried to get us to sign up for lessons, and at least they joined in the laugh with us when we told them we were from Australia and we didn't consider this much of a beach and didn't need surfing lessons (neither of us can surf by the way).

Cat heaven?

Later in the day we walked up to see Kennedy Park, though much of it was closed due to some sort of construction. The weirdest thing about the part of the park we did see is that it is home to what could be hundreds of stray cats - we've never seen so many cats in one place before.