{"id":4745,"date":"2019-12-03T17:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cap-travel.ru\/?p=4745"},"modified":"2019-12-20T20:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:23:23","slug":"motoputeshestvie-po-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cap-travel.ru\/en\/blog\/2019\/12\/03\/motoputeshestvie-po-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"A Motorbike journey to Latin America. Part 1. Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lima<\/h2>\n

In my personal top of the capitals of the world I would write down the capital of the distant and mysterious country Peru, Latin America, somewhere at the end of the list.<\/p>\n

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Maybe I have such an opinion because I don't like big cities and in Lima there live about ten million residents and another million of the unaccounted Venezuelans (as a taxi driver told me). Or maybe it's because you should always be careful and hide your wallet away, do not walk with your phone in your hands, hold your bag tightly and keep alert all the time (even while walking around the historical centre). The very first day I was reminded of these rules ten times by different people: the hotel manager, the waiter, taxi drivers and just passers-by.<\/p>\n

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Lima is a very contrasting city. There are expensive fashionable districts, like the local \"Rublevka\", which the elite of the country lives in. And there are also \"favelas\", which are the areas of the poor, with chaotic buildings that can hardly be described as human housings.<\/p>\n

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If one does not take into account the elite districts, Lima can't be described as a well-groomed city, in my view. It is like Moscow in the mid-90s. And the same thing with the traffic (like the one in Moscow 25 years ago). Well, it's even much worse. In Lima there is no culture of \"giving way\". It doesn't work even if you drive up to the crossroad at the main line. Nobody will let you pass until you make your way by signalling and squeezing into the micro gaps between the cars.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, there are certainly a lot of interesting attractions: in some districts the pieces of colonial architecture have been preserved, the local cuisine is good and the museums are fantastic. We also enjoyed the ocean coast with huge waves, surfers and paragliders.<\/p>\n\n\t\t