Travel to South America - Lima, Peru

Like any trip we started with the close up the house and head to the airport.  The Riehl's are staying at the house today through Wednesday with the Cha's coming out as well.  Quick stop at McDonalds for breakfast and then the trek to KCI.



Uneventful trip through Atlanta for our flight to Lima.  8:15 a.m. departure from home and arrival at 11:45 p.m. at the Hotel IBIS Lima Reducto Miraflores.  6 hours almost to the minute from Atlanta to Peru.  Only a few bumps along the route.  Customs was easy, however, long line with several flights arriving.




Mario was our escort with four others for the 40 minute drive from the brand new airport to the hotel.  The airport was as busy as you would expect a big city airport even at 11:00 p.m.  We were lucky to experience the first day of the new airport being open.  Overall no hiccups and well staffed.  Peru relies on tourism, however, like any big city Lima has its safety issues.  No drinking tap water and recommended to not use Uber.  We will have different guides along the way and tomorrow we have a free day since we came in a day early (note always plan to do that on long trips).

First Hotel in Lima, Peru

Fact about Lima is the population is 11 million and has crazy traffic.  The hotel is in the city, so like any large US city lots of noise and thin windows.

More to come tomorrow as we get used to the landscape and convert some US $ and find our way around.


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