My trip to Peru
By Juan Pablo Rivas


Hi everybody, in october of 2009, I traveled to Peru for an encounter of latin american students of Architecture (ELEA in spanish), the event was celebrated in the city of Trujillo, in the north of Peru.


I was in that time in the university, coursing the 9th semester and the opportunity to travel there was unique, I have never been abroad, always in my country so I always wanted to go outside and that event was the perfect excuse for do it. Was october 2 when the great day came and the beninning was not so easy because the previous night I had be working doing a job for a subject of my class, I didn't sleep but I could finish the task and then get ready to FLY

at the airport

The event was programmed and directed by academical people, so in my case I was accopanied by other students of my school too, they were very kind and now we are good friends. The flight was very comfortable with no problems, first we left Medellín to Bogota and later we moved to Lima, the flight just lasted two and a half hour

at  the Callao's airport, one of the most modern aiports in latin america

Our arrive to the airport was fine, and as a good foreigner I took photos to everything, the course between Callao and Lima only took 25 min, and later we stayed in a hostel full of other foreigners (especially americans) in the whealthy municipality of Miraflores. Miraflores is actually a big neighborhood where rich people of Lima from upper middle and high class live  and that place was beautiful, they have a wonderful sight of the ocean

Part of Miraflores at night

The other day we went to Lima's downtown before our travel to Trujillo, our  surprise was shocking because we weren't accustomed to see a big city with a really beautiful  architecture from  18th to 19th centuries and they were well conserved structures, they have beautiful gardens, nice plazas and streets, we visited the National Palace, the  Armas Plaza and San Martin Plaza, after that we had our lunch in a "rasta restaurant" eating ceviche and other delicious peruvian dishes, in the afternoon we came back to Miraflores for a walk in the bay, the landscape was beautiful but the weather was hard, very cold, so we just walked and enjoyed the view. At night we went to the bus terminal for travel to our academic encounter.

Me and my teammates

 National Palace

San Martin Plaza

Miraflores at afternoon