15.03.2008 Take off

After 3 hours of sleep, the taxi picked us up in Cannes at 6am to go to the airport to start our little trip of 20h. According to the plan original we had a bit over an hour to change in Paris, but since we left a bit late it got reduced to 20min... so running through Charles de Gaulle. Made it to the plane, which was again delayed... 9h30 min flight to Caracas and a little "deja vu", running through the airport again and again for nothing... Luckily after all this we made it to Lima with all our luggage. (= 2 back bags 12 kilos each.) . We found our airport pick up easily and he had the right password, so off we got to Lima Miraflores to our 10$ / night hotel (incl breakfast!).

Kusillus Hostal was very nice, hot and noisy, but safe. They showed us a restaurant for dinner and a supermarket for the first money exchange. The server was extremely helpful, he gave us little books about Peru, talked a lot and gave Jo even a rose in the middle of the meal! The following morning we woke up too early, had the breakfast and went for a walk. Money exchange is very easy, you just have to look for a person with a green jacket with the $ or € sign on his back in the street. He has a little calculator and the business is done right there. After we continued to see a tourist shopping center on the beach side, where a peruvian hat costs 100$!!! And then it was time to get back to the airport for a take off to Arequipa. The check in was without problems, we managed to get to the plane without showing our passports or Id´s. The only thing was when we tried to pay for the departure tax, Steph apparently had a fake coin for it.