Lima is a dump

From Albert...

and in other news, i just heard on NPR on the carride to work that some 40% of the garbage in The Lime is never picked up. it just sits in makeshift dumps in the barrios.

And it is TRUE. Not that this is so much an outlier in South America, but there are many visible roudside dumping areas to be seen throughout coastal (at least) Peru.

That said, there are also pristine neighborhoods (Miraflores, Barranco) that have Papa Johns Pizza and Adidas stores in areas of Lima, where trash can´t even be found. If you have a friend from Peru who is living in the United States, that is where your friend is from. The rest of Lima is like a real life interpretation of Mad Max.

By the way, we got a large ham and cheese pizza with breadsticks, a coke, and those awesome garlic sauce packets and watched Shaq get slapped silly by Ben Wallace. It was a great, if not hardly South American, night.

Comments

[victor]

HEY ALBERT.. WHERE IN THE WORLD DO YOU LIVE?..I LIVE HERE IN NEW YORK CITY AND I SEEN MANY SLUMS AROUND THE BIGEST CITIES IN THE WORLD...I WOULD LOVE YOU TO COME AND VISIT HARLEM...THAT IS IF YOU COME OUT ALIVE LOL.

[Lima Traveller]

I agree, most of Lima really is really scary. Especially the south. On our drive to Pachacamac we saw slums that I couldn't have imagine existed.
Miraflores was nice though, but the cab driver showed us some pretty insane areas near the beach where people were begging for food while two stories above was the outdoor pool of a luxury club.

[albert]

i was taking ak's translation of 'lima'

[Don Ball]

Dude. Lima doesn't mean lime. It's believed to have been morphed from Rimac, the main river that runs through the city.