The trip to Lima

Day 1

2011-01-09
Frankfurt - Bogotá - Lima 

My trip starts in Munich where I took my flight to Frankfurt. Everything went fine and I got to Frankfurt with enough time to catch my flight to Bogotá/Colombia. I met Chris – who was going to come with me on that trip – at the baggage claim – as planned. After having checked in we had still enough time to talk about our plans for the next 3 weeks.

LH 542 FRA-BOG

Once we were on board our flight to Bogotá, the excitement started to set in and the real deal began. It was a pretty smooth flight and after round about 11 hours we hit Colombian ground. After 2 hours we took our last flight from Bogotá to Lima/Peru which was a blast, too. I’ve never flown in such a comfortable economy class with in seat video systems and wonderful seats.

At around half past midnight local Peruvian time we touched down at Lima El Dorado Airport. We went to the baggage claim and got our luggage before heading to the arrival area. It was planned that a driver should pick us up and bring us to our hotel in Miraflores/Lima. And there he was – with my name on his sign.

El Patio - Lima Miraflores

Only 30 minutes later we checked in at our hotel – the El Patio in Miraflores. We got such a warm welcome and the journey started amazingly.

It has a been a long and fatiguing trip to get to Peru but we were sure that it was worth it. We were pretty excited about the following weeks that were lying in front of us.