Encounter with the Gods of Ancient Peru

We took a 45 minute guided tour to the splendid Pachacamac Citadel, sanctuary of the Pachacamac god, who was considered to be the creator of the universe by the ancient Indian peoples. The citadel has temples, pyramids and palaces.

The entire place was sacred and part of the axis of the world.

We hiked over a mile to the top of the Temple of the Sun which had a beautiful panoramic view.

Life in Peru

Lunch at 2:30pm at Astrid y Gaston

We were told this is the best restaurant in Lima, run by Gaston Acurio and his wife Astrid, who turned Peruvian criollo cuisine into an art form in a colonial style building with elegant interior. It lived up to its image!

We walked around the streets near our hotel and stumbled upon a restaurant called Gourmet Deli which we found out was connected to our hotel.

We ate lunch there and Jim had a quiche and I had a caprese sandwich.

At 2:00pm we were picked up for a City Tour Lima Milenaria.

We started at the Intihuatana Lookout with a panoramic view of the Lima Bay.

We continued through Milaflores and stopped at the Pucllano Pyramid.

Historic Centre of Lima

Museum of Religious Art of the Cathedral of Lima

City Life

City Square

Dinner at Huaca Pucllana

We had dinner amid the ruins of Huaca Pucllana, an archaeological site that dates back to 200 A.D., which is lit up at night. We ate on the terrace and had beautiful views of the pyramid and adobe walls while enjoying criollo cuisine.

Friday morning we had breakfast at IHOP with Jim and Genn. Then met Tiffany and Adonis back at the Warner Robins Nazarene Church to help clean up and get the church back in order. We said our goodbyes and drove to Atlanta.

Google maps showed us the best way to go to avoid a big accident on I75. We were rerouted to back roads to see pretty homes and country Roads amid driving in torrential rains to get to the airport.

We dropped off the Hyundai Tucson rental car and took a shuttle to the international terminal which was a around a 20 minutes drive.

The international terminal was beautiful. We had several hours before our flight so we went to the Delta Sky Club and relaxed.

This economy flight was much better than our premium economy flight to Atlanta. Our seats went back and the flight was just 6 hours and 15 minutes. The people behind us was having an issue with their screen and every time they tried to turn it on it called the flight attendant. The flight attendant said this plane is an antique and things need to be fixed on it. I assume just the screen and hopefully the plane isn’t an antique. I told Jim it isn’t fun hearing the plane you’re flying on is an antique. Ha!

The flight went well we had a nice ravioli meal and had a vegetarian wrap for breakfast that was rather good.

We arrived into Lima at 11:35pm. We went through immigration and found our luggage which got us out of the terminal around 1:00am. Out car was waiting for us and we drove about 40 minutes to the hotel.

On the drive to our hotel there were so many cars and people out at 1:00 AM in the morning that I wondered if the city never sleeps as it was very alive.

Cliff and Tiffany were married at Warner Robins Nazarene Church at 3:00 PM on Thursday, March 14, 2019.

Woke up in Warner Robins, GA

Jim and Genn picked us up at our hotel and drove us to the Olive Garden for dinner tonight where we met up with family!

Our granddaughter, Tiffany, is getting married tomorrow to Cliff Kharan. We met Cliff and his 17 year old son tonight.

Tiffany’s son, Adonis, age 7, had fun with Bubba! Adonis is our great grandson!

Flight was OK with very little turbulence! This is our first time trying premium economy. We were challenged by uncomfortable seats, paying for food, Jim’s seat not going back, no USB charger and our Bose headphone connector’s would not work with their connector. Other than that, we arrived a little early and were the first off the plane because of where they opened the door at our row 19!

Luggage only rolled away 3 times from Jim as we were on the tram to pickup our luggage.

Rented a white Hyundai Tucson SUV which was brand new and Patricia’s favorite color.

Drove for 1 hour 40 minutes with google directions.

Arrived at our hotel the Wingate by Wyndham in Warner Robins, GA. Got into the room and first thing we needed was a drink of water but we could not find any cups in the room. So went back to the front desk and there seems to be a shortage of paper cups and they are hoping that their delivery comes tomorrow but in the meantime we were able to score 3 cups. Yah! Now relaxing till dinner.