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Back in Lima

Silhouettes of palm trees against the fading evening sky Since we lived in Lima 7 years ago for a couple of months, we stopped by to meet some friends.

Bird's eye view of Lima's Makaha beach with its stairwell off the cliffs, a restaurant on the nearby jetty and some surfers in the waves We enjoyed the neighbourhoods of Miraflores and Barranco right by the sea and went surfing at Playa Makaha, of course.

View along Lima's coast, with the ocean on the left and a road under cliffs to the right A busy crossing between multi-story building with a police man controlling the car traffic However, public transport via a convoluted system of various buses in the city that's home to a third of all Peruvians is still cryptic to me. With all the hectic traffic and almost nowhere to escape the constant noise of horns and combustion engines, I was not sad to leave again (even though we did have a great time with everyone we met).