{"id":6663,"date":"2015-04-30T03:11:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T01:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/?p=6663"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:42:44","slug":"no-poor-mans-galapagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/2015\/04\/30\/no-poor-mans-galapagos\/","title":{"rendered":"No poor man&#039;s Galapagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ballestas Islands tour canceled due to bad weather<\/li>\n<li>Bus ride to Lima<\/li>\n<li>Tour through the noble Miraflores<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><b><\/b>This morning we go on the second part of our day tour. We take the tour minibus again <b>to Paracas<\/b>. There we should get on the boat and start the one-hour drive out to the animal-rich islands. But <b>Fog and probably also high waves<\/b> let&#039;s not start. So we wait - again without related information - on the beach of Paracas. At 9 o&#039;clock we finish the whole thing <b>disappointed to call off<\/b> and by taxi <b>back to Pisco<\/b> to drive.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>We&#039;ll buy tickets for them there <b>Bus ride to Lima<\/b> 10 O `clock. At the hotel we collect our luggage, get some of the tour money back and march to the bus terminal of the Flores company. Our four-hour drive to the Peruvian capital begins there. Since Lima does not have a central bus station, we do not know exactly where the journey is going. After 4.5 hours we finally got through the traffic chaos <b>8.5 million metropolis<\/b> made. Depending on the source, it is even the 3rd or 4th largest metropolitan region in South America.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The capital and by far the largest city in the country is apparently in the middle <b>hostile desert section<\/b> on the coast. Not particularly inviting at first glance turns out to be in the busy district <b>Miraflores<\/b> a <b>completely different picture<\/b>: Everything is clean, ultra-modern but also somehow interchangeable. We move into our room in the well-located Allpamama hostel and explore the area on foot. The ultra-modern is located just a few blocks further into the cliff <b>LarcoMar shopping center<\/b>. Somehow we both enjoy it <b>Feeling of the modern big city<\/b>, we&#039;ve practically not had that since Buenos Aires!<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>As the sun approaches the horizon, we march to the\u00a0<b>\u00d3valo de Miraflores<\/b> and explore numerous other shops. After dinner we continue through the big one\u00a0<b>Saga Falabella<\/b> and finally back to the hostel.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ballestas Islands tour canceled due to bad weather<\/li>\n<li>Bus ride to Lima<\/li>\n<li>Tour through the noble Miraflores<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div><b><\/b>This morning we go on the second part of our day tour. We take the tour minibus again <b>to Paracas<\/b>. There we should get on the boat and start the one-hour drive out to the animal-rich islands. But <b>Fog and probably also high waves<\/b> let&#039;s not start. So we wait - again without related information - on the beach of Paracas. At 9 o&#039;clock we finish the whole thing <b>disappointed to call off<\/b> and by taxi <b>back to Pisco<\/b> to drive.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,820,1559,1735,1760],"tags":[1755,871,1756,1100,1757,1561,1758,1654,1759,1743,1744,1745,1747,1748,1749,1750,1751,1752,1753,1754],"class_list":["post-6663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tagebuch","category-suedamerika","category-peru","category-pisco","category-lima","tag-shoppingzentrum","tag-bus","tag-larcomar","tag-pelikane","tag-ovalo-de-miraflores","tag-peru","tag-allpamama","tag-pisco","tag-saga-falabella","tag-ballestas-islands","tag-islas-ballestas","tag-ballestas-inseln","tag-lima","tag-flores","tag-miraflores","tag-poor-mans-galapagos","tag-wildlife","tag-pelican","tag-humbold","tag-humbold-pinguine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}