Shocking showers!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!

We ate the traveller´s breakfast this morning offered by our hostel. It is bread, butter, jam, egg, juice, and coffee. This is pretty much the standard the world over with a few variations.

Our 9:15 bus boarded on time but didn´t leave the station until 10:15. We sat at the entrance of the station collecting more travellers going our direction. The bus was reasonably clean (well, sort of) and comfortable and the trip uneventful except for a few stops. We have been warned of thievery on the buses here and a guy from Belgium had a camera stolen form his bag which was in the overhead compartment. We always put our bags under our feet which has allowed us to prevent theft even if it is uncomfortable at times. Sometimes I wish some of it would dissappear to lighten our overflowing daypack full of crap. And this daypack is now extra dodgy because the main compartment zipper is broken, so it hangs half open, only connected by a cheap carabiner.

In Pisco we walked throught the Plaza de Armas to our hotel (this is becoming a theme here in Peru). The room was nice, maybe a bit dusty but the highlight was the huge poster of Christina Aguilera above the bed. I did sneak a glimpse in another room and they had Pamela Anderson above that bed, but that room was more expensive. The shower was also an adventure. To heat the water the shower head has electrical wires connected to it. The water is heated (not very well) by an element within the shower head. Because I am tall and closer to the water coming out of the head, I did get few little shocks.

We went and booked a boat trip to the Islas Ballestas for the morning and had a great dinner of Chicken Lomo Soltado (chicken pieces, tomatoes, french fries, onion and rice) and Stuffed Avocado then we went to bed again exhausted from doing nothing.