Clare's Activity Reports
Clare Dickie
SITE REPORT # 1
Name of Venue: Jazz Zone
Address:
Hours of Operation: Mon-Wed nights
Cost for entrance: 20 S.
Ten Highlights:
1. AMAZING band
2. songs were played that we had heard in dance class
3. The best Bloody Mary I have ever had
4. chill, non-touristy atmosphere
5. Lots of comfortable places to sit down
6. Delicious food
7. The band used donkey jawbones as instruments
8. Great dancers in the band
9. Really good singers in the band
10. Fun and welcoming vibe
Comments:
We found out about this place from South American Explorers and it was everything it promised it would be and more! The band played a lot of African inspired music and it was really fun to just sit and have good drinks and food and listen to some really great music. The crowd was a little bit older and it wasn't touristy at all but nobody made us feel uncomfortable. I would recommend this place to anybody and everybody and we are planning on going back next wednesday when the same band is playing again.
SITE REPORT # 2
Name of Restaurant: Punto Azul
Address:
Hours of Operation: Mon-Sat lunch and dinner
Cost for entrance: N/A
Ten Highlights:
1. Good fish with pasta in a pesto sauce
2. Fun atmosphere
3. Food came out quickly
4. Awesome dessert selection
5. Delicious and different ceviche
6. Good chiche morada served with every meal
7. Yummy calamari
8. Frozen limeade served with every meal
9. Baloons given to kids
10. Shared entrees
Comments:
The restaurant seemed very popular so we had to wait about 15 minutes to get a table but there was a big group of 8 of us. A watress came around with a big platter of desserts and explained to us what everything was and the 3 I tried were amazingly delicious. I really enjoyed the food but the check took a long time to come but I'm willing to let that minor detail slide because the meal itself was so good. It was
also really close to our hostel.
SITE REPORT # 3
Name of Restaurant: La Glorietta
Address: Juan Figari 181, Lima
Hours of Operation: Lunch/Dinner
Cost for Entrance: N/A
Ten Highlights:
1. On Pizza Alley
2. Next to many nearly identical pizza parlors
3. This restaurant is the best of the bunch
4. Relaxed atmosphere
5. Wooden tables
6. Attentive waitstaff
7. Sweet sauce (gross) on the pasta
8. Decent pizza
9. beer and pisco sours
10. Musicians wandering around playing music
SITE REPORT # 4
Name of Restaurant: Javier
Address: Bajada de Banos 403
Hours of Operation: lunch and dinner
Cost for Entrance: N/A
Ten Highlights:
1. Among many restaurants along the street leading down to the ocean
2. Rooftop terrace
3. overlooks crashing waves
4. incredibly fresh fish
5. Clams with Parmesan cheese is really good
6. fish served hot off the grill
7. First pisco sour is on the house
8. Fun atmosphere
9. Decent service
10. Delicious food
SITE REPORT # 5
Name of Site: Museo de la Nacion
Address: Av. Javier Prado Este 2465
Hours of Operation: Tues-Sun 9-6
Cost of Entrance: S/6.50
Ten Highlights:
1. If you don't know much about the history of Peru it is likely to leave you feeling very overwhelmed
2. Easy to confuse the cultures that are tracked over centuries
3. 3 floors of artifacts feel repititious
4. Rooms dedicated to the Inca are disappointing
5. pair of scale models of Machu Picchu
6. Museum would be more manageable if you have a specific interest
7. Nice gift shop
8. Entire floor dedicated to the remembrance of the Shining Path is very effective and moving. It brought tears to my eyes many different times.
9. Clean bathrooms
10. Easy to loose track of what you have already seen
SITE REPORT # 6
Name of Site: Museo de Oro
Address: Alonso de Molina
Hours of Operation: 11:30 -7
Cost for Entrance: S/30
Ten Highlights:
1. mantle made of postage-stamp size pieces worn by a Lamnayeque priest
2. Intricately designed sheet that once decorated an entire wall of the Chimu capital of Chan Chan
3. Child's poncho of yellow feathers
4. skull with a full set of pink quartz teeth
5. military uniforms
6. military weapons
7. None of teh dispalys are well market either in English or Spanish
8. one of the most expensive admission prices
9. Lots of beautiful things to look at
10. English translation isn't done particularly well
SITE REPORT # 7
Name of Site: Pachacamac
Address: 31 km south of Lima on Carretera Panamericana Sur
Hours of Operation: daily from 9-5
Cost of Entrance: S/5.50
Ten Highlights:
1. Datings back to the first century
2. city of plazas, palaces and pyramids
3. many buildings are restored
4. was a stronghold for the Huari people
5. They worshiped Pachacamac here who was believed to be the creator of the world
6. You can visit many temples that were built before the time of the Incas
7. small but good musem
8. beautiful Temple of the Sun
9. staircase leading up to the walkways surrounding the Temple
10. Site would be best seen on foot rather than on a bus because you miss a lot
SITE REPORT # 8
Name of Site: Huaca Pucllana
Address: General Borgono, 2 blocks north of Av. Angamos Oeste
Hours of Operation: Wed-Mon 9-4:30
Cost of Entrance: S/7
Ten Highlights:
1. mud-brick pyramid
2. Covers several city blocks
3. dates back to at least the 4th cent.
4. has ongoing excavations
5. new discoveries are often being announced
6. Archeologists working on the site are happy to share their discoveries about the peope who lived here
7. Tiny museum highlights some recent finds
8. Guides are available in Spanish and English
9. Site is off the beaten path feel
10. Plenty of restaurants nearby
SITE REPORT # 9
Name of Site: Parque Miraflores
Address: Between av. Jose Larco and Av. Diagonal
Hours of Operation: N/A
Cost of Entrance: N/A
Ten Highlights:
1. Actually two parks
2. Frequent open air concerts
3. shoeshine boys everywhere
4. musicians wandering around
5. ice cream vendors
6. tourist info booth on the south side
7. local artists showing off their latest works
8. Pretty statues
9. Lots of places to sit
10. Many restaurants nearby
SITE REPORT # 10
Name of Site: Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herera
Address: Av. Bolivar 1515
Hours of Operation: daily from 9-6
Cost of Entrance: S/25
Ten Highlights:
1. worlds largest private collection of pre-Columbian art
2. bougainvellea tumbles over white walls surrounding the home
3. oldest pieces are crude vessels dating back several thousand years
4. thousands of ceraming "portrait heads"
5. There is a room filled with erotic pottery
6. Lots of sexual and humorous pottery
7. Lots of owls shown in the pottery
8. Guide is a good idea because not much is translated into english
9. Collection is more extensive than any museum we went to
10. Really nice gift shop
SITE REPORT # 1
Name of Venue: Jazz Zone
Address:
Hours of Operation: Mon-Wed nights
Cost for entrance: 20 S.
Ten Highlights:
1. AMAZING band
2. songs were played that we had heard in dance class
3. The best Bloody Mary I have ever had
4. chill, non-touristy atmosphere
5. Lots of comfortable places to sit down
6. Delicious food
7. The band used donkey jawbones as instruments
8. Great dancers in the band
9. Really good singers in the band
10. Fun and welcoming vibe
Comments:
We found out about this place from South American Explorers and it was everything it promised it would be and more! The band played a lot of African inspired music and it was really fun to just sit and have good drinks and food and listen to some really great music. The crowd was a little bit older and it wasn't touristy at all but nobody made us feel uncomfortable. I would recommend this place to anybody and everybody and we are planning on going back next wednesday when the same band is playing again.
SITE REPORT # 2
Name of Restaurant: Punto Azul
Address:
Hours of Operation: Mon-Sat lunch and dinner
Cost for entrance: N/A
Ten Highlights:
1. Good fish with pasta in a pesto sauce
2. Fun atmosphere
3. Food came out quickly
4. Awesome dessert selection
5. Delicious and different ceviche
6. Good chiche morada served with every meal
7. Yummy calamari
8. Frozen limeade served with every meal
9. Baloons given to kids
10. Shared entrees
Comments:
The restaurant seemed very popular so we had to wait about 15 minutes to get a table but there was a big group of 8 of us. A watress came around with a big platter of desserts and explained to us what everything was and the 3 I tried were amazingly delicious. I really enjoyed the food but the check took a long time to come but I'm willing to let that minor detail slide because the meal itself was so good. It was
also really close to our hostel.
SITE REPORT # 3
Name of Restaurant: La Glorietta
Address: Juan Figari 181, Lima
Hours of Operation: Lunch/Dinner
Cost for Entrance: N/A
Ten Highlights:
1. On Pizza Alley
2. Next to many nearly identical pizza parlors
3. This restaurant is the best of the bunch
4. Relaxed atmosphere
5. Wooden tables
6. Attentive waitstaff
7. Sweet sauce (gross) on the pasta
8. Decent pizza
9. beer and pisco sours
10. Musicians wandering around playing music
SITE REPORT # 4
Name of Restaurant: Javier
Address: Bajada de Banos 403
Hours of Operation: lunch and dinner
Cost for Entrance: N/A
Ten Highlights:
1. Among many restaurants along the street leading down to the ocean
2. Rooftop terrace
3. overlooks crashing waves
4. incredibly fresh fish
5. Clams with Parmesan cheese is really good
6. fish served hot off the grill
7. First pisco sour is on the house
8. Fun atmosphere
9. Decent service
10. Delicious food
SITE REPORT # 5
Name of Site: Museo de la Nacion
Address: Av. Javier Prado Este 2465
Hours of Operation: Tues-Sun 9-6
Cost of Entrance: S/6.50
Ten Highlights:
1. If you don't know much about the history of Peru it is likely to leave you feeling very overwhelmed
2. Easy to confuse the cultures that are tracked over centuries
3. 3 floors of artifacts feel repititious
4. Rooms dedicated to the Inca are disappointing
5. pair of scale models of Machu Picchu
6. Museum would be more manageable if you have a specific interest
7. Nice gift shop
8. Entire floor dedicated to the remembrance of the Shining Path is very effective and moving. It brought tears to my eyes many different times.
9. Clean bathrooms
10. Easy to loose track of what you have already seen
SITE REPORT # 6
Name of Site: Museo de Oro
Address: Alonso de Molina
Hours of Operation: 11:30 -7
Cost for Entrance: S/30
Ten Highlights:
1. mantle made of postage-stamp size pieces worn by a Lamnayeque priest
2. Intricately designed sheet that once decorated an entire wall of the Chimu capital of Chan Chan
3. Child's poncho of yellow feathers
4. skull with a full set of pink quartz teeth
5. military uniforms
6. military weapons
7. None of teh dispalys are well market either in English or Spanish
8. one of the most expensive admission prices
9. Lots of beautiful things to look at
10. English translation isn't done particularly well
SITE REPORT # 7
Name of Site: Pachacamac
Address: 31 km south of Lima on Carretera Panamericana Sur
Hours of Operation: daily from 9-5
Cost of Entrance: S/5.50
Ten Highlights:
1. Datings back to the first century
2. city of plazas, palaces and pyramids
3. many buildings are restored
4. was a stronghold for the Huari people
5. They worshiped Pachacamac here who was believed to be the creator of the world
6. You can visit many temples that were built before the time of the Incas
7. small but good musem
8. beautiful Temple of the Sun
9. staircase leading up to the walkways surrounding the Temple
10. Site would be best seen on foot rather than on a bus because you miss a lot
SITE REPORT # 8
Name of Site: Huaca Pucllana
Address: General Borgono, 2 blocks north of Av. Angamos Oeste
Hours of Operation: Wed-Mon 9-4:30
Cost of Entrance: S/7
Ten Highlights:
1. mud-brick pyramid
2. Covers several city blocks
3. dates back to at least the 4th cent.
4. has ongoing excavations
5. new discoveries are often being announced
6. Archeologists working on the site are happy to share their discoveries about the peope who lived here
7. Tiny museum highlights some recent finds
8. Guides are available in Spanish and English
9. Site is off the beaten path feel
10. Plenty of restaurants nearby
SITE REPORT # 9
Name of Site: Parque Miraflores
Address: Between av. Jose Larco and Av. Diagonal
Hours of Operation: N/A
Cost of Entrance: N/A
Ten Highlights:
1. Actually two parks
2. Frequent open air concerts
3. shoeshine boys everywhere
4. musicians wandering around
5. ice cream vendors
6. tourist info booth on the south side
7. local artists showing off their latest works
8. Pretty statues
9. Lots of places to sit
10. Many restaurants nearby
SITE REPORT # 10
Name of Site: Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herera
Address: Av. Bolivar 1515
Hours of Operation: daily from 9-6
Cost of Entrance: S/25
Ten Highlights:
1. worlds largest private collection of pre-Columbian art
2. bougainvellea tumbles over white walls surrounding the home
3. oldest pieces are crude vessels dating back several thousand years
4. thousands of ceraming "portrait heads"
5. There is a room filled with erotic pottery
6. Lots of sexual and humorous pottery
7. Lots of owls shown in the pottery
8. Guide is a good idea because not much is translated into english
9. Collection is more extensive than any museum we went to
10. Really nice gift shop
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