On our second day we met a few other kiwis over breakfast and got some good tips from the girls that had been traveling through south America for the past few months. After a late start we decided to head over to barranco and check it out. Barranco is another seaside town in Lima and has a reputation for having a wild bohemian side as well as some great seafood. After a nice long walk along the coast to Barranco with the kiwi guy we met that morning I think we were all a little bit disappointed. I think I was expecting something like Wellingtons Cuba street or Melbournes lane ways but with a Peruvian twist.
When we had a look through Trent's lonely planet book and online the main attraction for Barranco kept coming up as the puente de los suspiros or the "bridge of sighs". Apparently this is the place to take your first date or for lovers to meet and although there was some lovely looking restaurants with a views over the pacific I am not too sure how happy I would be with a first date to a wooden bridge.
However Barranco did redeem itself with the food . We found this great restaurant full of locals which had over 20 varieties of ceviche. Was a great atmosphere with soccer paraphernalia and old photos all over the walls and ceiling. There was even an adorable ginger kitten which we thought was just a little girls stuffed animal until it ran between our legs. I am kind
of annoyed as I lost my phone (see later blog) so am unable to post photos of this place and the food. In the end we all got different types of ceviche but looking around at other customers plates all the food looked really good, especially the seafood dishes.
Ceviche is similar to the Pacific Islands raw fish with fish being cooked in lemon and lime but served with a side of sweet potato and corn. The boys had a lot of red onion and chilli added to it and was cut up in chunks similar to raw fish. Mine had more coriander and some other flavour but I am not too sure what it was. The fish was cut up into long skinny strips which then rolled up to pop into your mouth - deliciosa!
Jake and I also found out that grande cervesa means a crate size beer. The previous night at dinner we had ordered a beer to share and received a tiny bottle. So this time when seeing the beers came in chico or grande size we ordered grande each thinking it would be a normal size beer. Took us a bit longer to walk back to our hostel after the giant serving of fish and beer so we ended up resting once we got back to save ourselves for the fountain light show in downtown Lima that night.
of annoyed as I lost my phone (see later blog) so am unable to post photos of this place and the food. In the end we all got different types of ceviche but looking around at other customers plates all the food looked really good, especially the seafood dishes.
Ceviche is similar to the Pacific Islands raw fish with fish being cooked in lemon and lime but served with a side of sweet potato and corn. The boys had a lot of red onion and chilli added to it and was cut up in chunks similar to raw fish. Mine had more coriander and some other flavour but I am not too sure what it was. The fish was cut up into long skinny strips which then rolled up to pop into your mouth - deliciosa!
Jake and I also found out that grande cervesa means a crate size beer. The previous night at dinner we had ordered a beer to share and received a tiny bottle. So this time when seeing the beers came in chico or grande size we ordered grande each thinking it would be a normal size beer. Took us a bit longer to walk back to our hostel after the giant serving of fish and beer so we ended up resting once we got back to save ourselves for the fountain light show in downtown Lima that night.