Lima de Peru (part 1)

Oh. My. God.
This place is crazy!!!
Tonight is my last night in Lima before I head south to Arequipa, Peru´s second largest city. I would have blogged sooner, talking about things as they happened instead of trying to remember everything that´s gone on in the past four days, but I feel that that would have been literally impossible. I´m so tired by the end of each day here that I have absolutely no strength left for writing, let alone remembering.
Anyway...so I got to Lima on Wednesday after a really long flight, where the little old lady sitting in the aisle across from me kept dropping all of her important immigration documents without noticing (en DONDE estaba? en DONDE??) and spilling her sodas on the floor and on my shoes. Good talker, though.
Anyway, afterwards I took the pick up service and was made so much less nervous about being in a new place by the driver, who was chatty (like most Peruvians seem to be) and assured me that I would feel right at home at the hostel. Which is interesting, considering its pretty hard to feel comfortable on the highways in Lima. At night, teenagers literally hang out ON the highways on the way here from the airport. There were kids standing in the middle of the freeway, tugging on their girlfriend´s arms and laughing and just STANDING around! And everyone was doing it, too... strange, really.
Anyway, Thursday I spent the whole day walking, pretty much. Saw some pre Inka ruins in the neighborhood of Miraflores, and took a stroll down the Malecon, a cliffside park overlooking Lima´s lovely beaches. What a sight! And What do you know...I found Havana! The Dulce de Leche place from Argentina apparently has an outpost in Lima... what a nice surprise! The same day, I ate Chifa, a sort of blend of Chinese and Peruvian food.
I don´t remember what I did on Friday. I think (actually, now I´m sure) that I went to two museums, the Larco and the Arqueology museums. Larco was so cool! The national museum, not so much...
Saturday was where my real adventures began. I decided it was time to really get out there and adventure, so I planned a trip to Pachacamac. (con´t above)