We arrived at our apartment and went shopping for essentials - a breakfast cereal that wasn't the puffed wheat that everyone seems to serve, and some beer, maybe even a bottle of wine - only to find that the government had banned the sale of alcohol for two days because of the elections! Couldn't even get a beer with a meal.
The next day Lima was effectively shut, (even the changing of the guard outside the president's palace didn't happen) shops, museums, churches, from 8am until 4pm for the voting. So we had a day of not very much, but walked around and admired the old buildings. Then just after 4pm everyone hit the streets and the churches and the city came back to life, but because it was Sunday there weren't many restaurants open in the evening but the Chinese didn't let us down.
Today is Monday and a public holiday, two reasons why Lima is mostly shut again, but we have beer!
Tomorrow we're heading up (north) and up (back into the mountains). We have a plan but don't know if it'll work, nothing booked after the flight tomorrow.
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