Visiting Markets in Lima Peru
Plaza de Armas I am a born and bred New Yorker, and I drive in the city when I need to, regardless of the traffic. I have been stuck in “Summer Friday” traffic and “pre-Christmas Traffic.” But I have never seen traffic as bad as I witnessed in Lima Peru. In fact, it was this traffic that caused The Amazing Ms D. and me to do something that we don’t usually do on cruises, we paid for an NCL tour. Even though we both speak Spanish, we were unsure about being able to hire a taxi for the day, and get back before the last bus back to the ship. This decision gave us both some really interesting sights and some frustrating scheduling. Minka Market One of the things that I really enjoy is seeing how people really live in the places we visit, and usually that involves going to local markets. Not craft markets, but every day food and clothes markets. One of the reasons that we chose this particular trip was that it promised a tour of a local market, and that was the Minka M...