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Day
1 (August 25, 2025) Arrival at Lima
Before
A long day that has to begin with boarding our direct flight to Lima,
which departs from Madrid at 11:00 AM and should land at Lima airport
around 4:10 PM.
If we have some time, we would take a walk around the hotel in the
Miraflores district.
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After
Our flight to Lima proceeds without incident and arrives in the capital
of Peru 50
minutes earlier than expected, which makes it an 11-hour flight instead
of the
12 scheduled. However, the line for immigration procedures is so long
that we
practically lose the time advantage there. When I see that they are not
stamping
our passports, I ask about it and they tell me that they no longer do
it.
 
When we exit with the luggage I quickly find the sign with
my
name and, since it is rush hour, it takes another hour to reach the
hotel.
We get our first views of Lima which, as we get closer to
Miraflores, takes us along a road between the sea and a cliff.
Once
we are settled I head out quickly to try to take advantage of the
little
daylight left. Since we are near the equator, sunrise and sunset are
around six o’clock all year round. I reach the end of the
city, which in this area forms a terrace over the Pacific, where
there is a long walkway with several parks following the edge of the
cliff above the sea that we had already seen.
 
I managed to see the full sunset from afar but when
I arrive
I only catch the very last upper tip of the sunset. Since there is
still
light, I continue along the walkway looking for the Park of Love, but
after a while
walking I find out that I long passed it, and it was right next to
where I had
stopped to watch the sunset, just in the opposite direction.
When
I get there it is already dark but, since it is lit up, I can see and
follow its
structures that resemble Gaudi.
 
When
I return to the hotel we get ready to go out for dinner, as we have
a reservation at a Michelin-star restaurant for 7:30 PM. Although we
leave with
plenty of time I get lost again and we end up arriving at 7:35 PM. They
bring us a
kind of elongated toasted corn and chips, but made from banana instead
of
potato. They end up refilling those snacks while we wait because
we had already finished them.
 
The "leche de tigre" (tiger’s milk) that I ordered as a
starter arrives and it
surprises us with an explosion of flavors. I like vinegar, lemon,
and spicy food, and this is the first time I’ve had all of that
together. We
like it so much
that Eva tries to get them to explain how to make it. Then the
rice dishes arrive: Punto Azul rice for Eva and seafood chaufa
for me, and
when we see the amount we are sure we are not going to be able to
finish them. Eva’s
rice with cilantro sauce and squid, octopus and prawns
tastes completely different from my semi-fried oriental-style rice, but
both are delicious. We end up asking them to wrap what is left
to take away. We pay 200 soles (20 of which are tip) which, with the
half-of-the-half rule, comes to 50 euros for the meal, my Inka
Kola and Eva’s pisco sour.
We end asking to get the leftovers to take away. We pay 200
soles (20 of them as tip) which, with the rule og half-of-half, become
50 euros for the meal, with my Inka cola nd Eva's pisco sour.
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