House of Ricardo Palma and Mirabus Tour

First day of blogging! This is going to be fun. Today is going to be fun in general. It’s going to be one of our first day heading out to see some of the culture and history Peru has to offer. Also, first day at El Sol! I’m so excited to be here right now. I’m excited to learn and get to know everyone on this trip. Everyone seems to be extremely friendly and that just adds to the experience. We had a chance to all bond at dinner at Huaca Pucllana last night, so I already know some familiar faces.

My first day at El Sol was everything I had expected, and in a good way. I wanted to take Spanish classes that would allow me to comfortably utilize my Spanish at a nice comfortable pace. Surely enough throughout the day, I could already feel my Spanish improving drastically. The other people in my class were also great. We all had our own different personalities but we all somehow meshed pretty well. We would conduct half of our class in conversation and grammar and the other half learning about Peru and its history. Today in class, we learned about the Peruvian renaissance man – Ricardo Palma. Which funny enough, we would be taking a tour of his house later that afternoon!

After El Sol, we were to meet at Parque Kennedy, which I’m pretty sure is Spanish for cat park because the place is overran by stray cats. Do not touch stray cats. That’s like a first rule of them in which one partook because every girl on our trip was stroking cats left and right. Yeah. I’m going to get rabies. From Parque Kennedy we walked as a group towards the north end of Lima to arrive at the house of Ricardo Palma. There at his house, we began a short tour around looking at all of his works and the way he lived. He was definitely one of the most influential political and literary figures of Peru. Shortly after our visit at the house of Ricardo Palma, we would make our way to the Mirabus Tour stop. We would take the bus for a couple hours discovering different parts of Lima from the political region of Pueblo Libre to the young university region of Barranco. I’d have to say that our first tour of Lima was overall a great experience.