lima y cerro azul

landed in lima around 10am and before leaving the airport bought our tickets for cuzco. then due to talking to some fellow backpackers about going to brazil, realized that we need to secure a visa before entering brazil and unlike other countries we aren´t just allowed to grab one at the border, so we headed straight for the brazilian embassy. we talked to a great dude there who told us the whole deal and that it would take a max of 5 days there, which we didn´t have, but also mentioned to us that if we were going through bolivia on the way to brazil, we could do it there and they would be able to process it quicker than they could in lima. so as soon as he said that we smiled and relaxed a bit and figured we will go for that option. hopefully it works. then we stopped by a south american explorers clubhouse which is a pretty helpful place to get info on everything about the surrounding area and well, all of south america. after that we decided we wanted to get out of busy lima and were going to head down the coast to a small surf town. we went and caught a cab to the bus station and headed to cañete which is south of lima. when we got there we caught a cab to cerro azul. which turned out to be a pretty empty surf town as it wasn´t really the right season for it. but it was cool nonetheless, we had a room right on the beach and were able to look out over some pretty big waves and a still good amount of surfers. at dinner that night we randomly crashed a baby shower that was going on in the restuarant we ate at which was filled with foreigners who all work in the area. it was pretty amusing. the next day we walked around the beach for a bit, saw some dolphins playing in the waves next to surfers, walked out on a long pier and then went back to grab our things and head to the side of the road. we caught a little moto taxi which took us out to the entrance of cerro azul where the main highway is. from there we stood on the side of the road and just waved a buses with lima on their placards. this is very common in peru and really most of south america. after about 15 minutes a bus stopped and we hopped on and for only 8 soles each we were dropped off in lima, we definitely got some weird looks getting on it as it was a pretty local bus but everyone we talked to was great and one guy was very helpful and told us exactly where to get off once we got into lima. we got off and headed to the hostel which was this awesome house with some extra rooms in the neighborhood of barranco in lima. a very bohemian and chill area of lima, it was great. as we had to catch an early flight again, we just walked around a bit, grabbed dinner and went to bed. the next morning we work up at just before 4am to catch the plane to cuzco. i will update more a little later, natalie is pretty sick and laying in bed right now so im gonna head back to our spot. we´re currently in copacabana bolivia but yea more updates to follow from lima to how we´re here. peace.