Arriving in Lima

We flew into Lima to start our South America adventures. We found a neat little Airbnb with an amazing backyard garden, a roaming peacock, breakfast in the morning, and a treehouse up in a massive fiddle leaf fig tree. Winning, right?

We arrived at the place sometime between midnight and 1am after a long day of traveling and crossing international borders, and it was the sweetest welcome to see my dear friend Zhanna already situated in our room (she got in a few hours before us)! I had never traveled with friends prior to this trip, and I was so happy to have Zhanna along as our (treasured) third wheel. You'll see lots of photos of her on this trip.

I had made a list of places I wanted to go in South America, but we hadn't actually planned or booked anything yet. That night, around 2am, we realized that we wanted to head to Cusco next, and it was either a 26 hour bus ride (a detail I completely overlooked) or a 1 hour flight. So we bought tickets right there from our beds, for a flight the next afternoon, in about 10 hours. That's how most of our travel planning goes.

Here's a handful of photos from the property we stayed at for one night in Lima. The next morning we were off to Cusco, the historical capital of Peru, and that post is coming next.

- Julia