LIMA PERU (DAY 2)
Today we did an excursion to Pachacamac. These are the ruins of a City dating back to the Inca era. First we took the shuttle bus from the ship into town what took 11/2hr, were we met up with our tour guide for the day. From here we went in a smaller bus (van) on our way to the ruins what took us another 11/2hr to get there through a selection of different neighbourhoods. On every traffic light stop you run into venders who walk between the cars to sell you a variety of goods. The venders are migrants who came over from Venezuela. There are over 1 million migrants who came to Peru due to the economic conditions in their home country of Venezuela. After we arrived at the ruin site, we were taken through a small museum first and then taken onto the site. The whole site covers approximate 600 hectares. we drove around the site stopping at several ruins of walls and old buildings. A lot of the ruins are currently being restored. After the tour we took on the traffic for another 2 hours and returned back to the ship. The area were the ship docks is in an active container terminal, There is a lot of activity of ships being loaded and unloaded with a veriety of goods from containers to cars to grain. Not quite the same as we are used to in Vancouver or Victoria where the terminal is downtown. Our ship departed at 6PM this evening.
Cheers
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