Aug 19, 2015
Chucked our bags into storage and went to get some breakfast. Booked our hostel for Aguas Calientes, the place we’re going to stay doesn’t have the best reviews but there was literally only 4 places available. Everywhere else was booked! So hopefully this place won’t be too bad. We have a triple room to ourselves. If it is bad, it’ll only be for one night anyways.
We found a cute little alley street and we all agreed that we would eat there when we were back in Lima. There were a lot of advertisements about flavored pisco. Going to have to try that too!
And then we came upon the Chocolate Museum. We went in of course and had a taste of their free chocolate tea. It was good. There was all the info you could want about how chocolate is made from little seedling to chocolate bar.
This place offered 3 classes where you could make your own chocolate. There is the short chocolate class suitable for children, there is the bean to chocolate bar class where you smash your own beans, grind them and make your own chocolate and then there is the chocolate truffle class. This company also has a Chocolate Museum in Cusco and they have the choice for you to go to the chocolate farm and actually pick your beans to make your own chocolate in. We’re going to do that. Hopefully. And then do another class here in Lima before we fly back.
The taxi ride wasn’t too far. The taxi car was in better condition than the one we took from the airport. That one was a super old car that looked like it was barely hanging on in there. But surprisingly it wasn’t too bad once the engine got started. You’ve got to be pretty aggressive to drive in Lima. A lot of the times the cars were driving in 2 lanes as if trying to decide which lane to stay in. The taxi ride was about $6 for the 3 of us.
We finally arrived at the bus terminal.
