THE BARRANCO NEIGHBORHOOD IN LIMA

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Day 20 - IQUITOS - LIMA: Barranco District - AMSTERDAM - BARCELONA

Even when it is the last day of our trip to Peru, we are not getting up early. The alarm sounded at 5 in the morning, but before returning home we have to take a flight from Iquitos to Lima, at 8.30 in the morning, spend part of the day in the Barranco neighborhood in Lima and then return to the airport to board the plane that will return us to Barcelona at 20.10 in the afternoon.
We had breakfast booked at La Casona at 6 in the morning, but for one mistake they didn't point it out, so we left the hotel in Iquitos With nothing in the body, not even a coffee.

When we arrived from Cuzco, we made the journey from the airport to the hotel by taxi, but we did not want to stay with the desire to try the other option, so today we take a motorcycle taxi at the hotel door and for 10 soles it plants us like lightning in 20 minutes at the Iquitos airport.

Iquitos airport road by motorcycle taxi

We invoice our bags and with 45 minutes left we take the opportunity to stop for breakfast and load those energies that we need to face today and when we return home.

Iquitos airport

When we pass the security controls we see in the panels that our flight is an hour late, so we have to take it easy and hope that the delay does not go further to take advantage of a few hours in the capital where we plan to spend a few hours in the Barranco neighborhood in Lima.
The flight finally leaves at 9.45 in the morning and we do it with no more problem than that delay that has reduced us a little the time we could have spent in Lima until our next flight to Barcelona leaves.
We arrive in Lima at 11.15 in the morning and after picking up the backpacks we go straight to the ticket offices that are right at the exit on the right hand side.
When we see the prices, we are quite surprised: 8 soles per hour per package !!! We plan to spend about 5-6 hours, so we have no choice but to pay. When we enter to leave the backpacks we see that the lockers are large enough to store the two large backpacks in one and the two small ones in another, so we told the boy, who wanted to charge us for each separate package and we were left with 2 Lockers for 38 soles a day.
In the end we will be expensive the walk through the Barranco neighborhood in Lima.
And now comes the time to negotiate the taxi. The only neighborhood that we left to know the day we were in Lima, at the beginning of our trip was Barranco, so we negotiated one there to avoid going downtown and from there take any other transport tothe Barrio de Barranco in Lima.
They start for 60 soles until at the end after three attempts with other taxi drivers outside the airport, we are approached by one that tells us that it takes us for 50 soles. We don't want to waste much more time, so we ride directly with him.

We had read several stories about traffic in the city and the importance of taking the transport with enough time to get to the airport on time, so we asked the taxi driver what he recommends. We have the return flight at 8.10 at night and they tell us to leave Lima telling us that the journey will be more or less than one hour due to traffic. We leave it in order not to be late for our flight back home.
We arrived to the Barranco neighborhood in Lima at 12 noon and the first thing we do is go to the famous Bridge of Sighs.

Streets of the Barranco neighborhood in Lima

Bridge of Sighs in the Barrio de Barranco

The weather today in Lima has welcomed us with a radiant sun and we plan to make the most of it.
After a walk around the neighborhood and the viewpoint we go to the Rancho restaurant where we ask for a couple of Peruvian food menus: chicken and rice with seafood and chicken chili for 39 soles

Eating at El Rancho in the Barrio de Barranco

After lunch we take the opportunity to stop at a cafeteria to have a coffee that has just loaded our energies and after this table, enlivened by the yellow piano of the Barrio de Barranco, we will take advantage of these remaining hours of the streets of Lima.

Having coffee in the Barrio de Barranco in Lima

We enjoy that corner of Barranco where the piano is located, where people can sit and play and there, at that moment, a spontaneous person who plays the piano is incredibly good. We could not have a better farewell to this country than this: with music, sun and an incomparable setting.
A good way to know the history of this neighborhood and not miss anything is to book this free tour of Barranco for free!

Barranco Neighborhood Square

Barranco neighborhood in Lima

One of the things that have made us fall in love are the messages and phrases that we have been crossing every moment in almost every city in Peru.
Ingenious phrases, full of meaning and substance that demonstrate the living culture of a people, the Peruvian people.

Barranco neighborhood

In the streets of the Barrio de Barranco

When it is 5 p.m. we take another taxi that takes us back to the airport for 50 soles. It is time to return to that no man's land that will take us home from Peru today.