Jessica+H


 * February 7, 2010**


 * Weather: Humid, but no hotter than a good summer's day at home **.

One misses the trees and vegetation in Lima, all there is is buildings and a little vegetation.

**February 8, 2010**


 * Weather: Like summer at home on a sticky day, with a good breeze, but - as we climbed the mountains in the train, it grew gradually cooler and dryer and quite delicious. **

At first the hills were brown and you could see all of the buildings light up. I couldn't see any natural resources, all I could see were cacti. As one goes higher, the mts. have slightly more vegetation, the cacti are more varied and greener, and there are larger cultivated areas in the valley. it was all...colorful and interesting. Then went only as far as...8000 ft. above sea level. it was too far and too tiring to go higher... We were disappointed, but would have seen little different higher up at 12000 ft. It rained, which was quite pleasant. We saw one llama carrying a heavy load of poatoes on his/her back. the bull fight was a "hum - dinger"...very gory and dreadful. Some were sorry they went. It served them right, I think.


 * February 10, 2010 **


 * Weather:​ Hot and humid - cooler and cooler **

Mountains are everywhere...the rock red like a pinkish brick. The famed...pampas with the convex sand - dunes and then we came to the finest scenery of all. More like the Grand Canyon than anything else I can compare it too, but softer in color and wider in expanse.​