Lima

When we were in Lima our main purpose was to get to know the slums of Lima and in those we spent the most of the time but our hotel situated in Miraflores, totally different kind of Lima. Here are some pictures from there. I hope you enjoy them. One thing I liked a lot was the colouring of the houses.

I guess whenever you are travelling with children you'll get to know where the closest swing is. Our girls enjoyed the local play park as much as ones in Finland even though mom was little afraid if the chains in swings will hold etc.

Lima is the capital of Peru situated on the coast of Pasific Ocean. There are over eight million people living in Lima. It has a mild climate, with warm summers and cool winters, very humid all year round mainly because of the Humboldt sea current. It almost never rains, but it drizzles very often during winter time. The drizzle, however, is generally so thin that only moistens every surface exposed to the atmosphere...

We didn't see the sun except once while visiting the slum of Keiko Sofia which is situated little pit upper than Miraflores and futher from the coast. Because of the lack of rain nothing grows without watering in Lima. Funny thing was that all the flower arrangments by the roads were actually adds. Once I saw Pambers written with flower arrangment. Kind of a clever idea!

I loved all these different kind of trees that were bloomig! Because there was so little green naturally anywhere people grew flowers in very small pieces of land and that was such a delight for the bypassers.

This was a very common sight on our way to slums. As you can see nothing is growing. So you can imagine what an impact a flower add has there!