Subject: Post: <p>Arriving Lima we still hadn't decided where to go from there or should we stay in Lima. None of the people we had been talked to liked Lima, so we had pretty much formed an opinion that we will pass Lima and continue south to the coast. 15 minutes of googling at the airport, and we decided that our destination would be Paracas 250km south of Lima.</p><p>Getting a rental car took once again a bit of effort, but finally worked out. Just the usual story.. I had reserved a car from National, without noticing that they had no office at the airport but a shuttle bus and their guy would be waiting at the arrivals hall with a sign. Well, I guess he was, but in the international terminal and not domestic. And their phone number in the reservation didn't naturally work. From Budget desk agent we got twice the price they show on internet, did a booking via internet for that cheaper price, returned to Budget desk and got our Kia Rio.. which obviously is shit to drive, suspension is totally dead. :p</p><p>Travel guides recommend to only rent a car in Lima for the ones experienced in driving in extremely challenging environment. Of course we did have to try that, and in a while I started to understand why. The local drivers are just pure idiots.. Nobody and I mean literally nobody obeys any rules, half of the people drive twice slower than the limit and the other half (mostly the typical assholes in every country, bus drivers and taxis) like headless monkeys. Been losing my nerves the entire day and soon making a big center finger sign to show out of the window.</p><p>Lima didn't show very positive face when driving through it, it's just an ugly big city. It is also extremely polluted, there is more gray smog in the air than in Mexico City and other very polluted cities. Timo described that he has only seen that bad smog in China, even buildings a couple of hundred of meters away started to blur in the smog. And the air smells. 50 kilometers away from Lima the air started to be clear sea air again.</p><p>We arrived to Paracas a couple of hours later, settled in a hostel and booked a diving trip for tomorrow. There seems to be a lot of small aircraft in the area, so I also emailed a couple of companies asking the possibility to rent their aircraft for a small sightseeing flight with their pilots, and also a paragliding company to try how it feels like. Let's see what kind of answers I get. The city is a beautiful small fishing village, having a lot of tourism due to the nearby animal rich islands. Today there is the last day of the carnival, so there is going to be fireworks later in the night. Wonder if we are staying awake until that..</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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