Tramvìa

And so our stay in Lima comes to an end. We`ll return here on the 15th and catch the Tren al Cielo to Huancayo. Until then, it`s up north to the highland town of Cajamarca and the curative Incan Baths.

Lima has been a good place to break in the Spanish and get used to traveling again. Budget traveling isn`t really a vacation, but it really takes being en route for that to really hit that home.

Most of the transit here seems to involve taxis, collectivos, micros, and buses. So not an ideal locale for a project on Trains. An urban train would be of great use, we`re staying in Barranca (about 15-20 minutes from central Lima). There are plans in the works to build a Tren Ùrbano from Miraflores to Lima, but no one seems to know what the actual status is. Beginning to think the Tren Ùrbano is simply urban legend. Tomorrow I`ll check it out in person.

In the meantime, we were lucky enough to be staying just blocks away from the Museo de Electricidad. The have an old turn-of-the-century Tram (Tramvìa) that they`ve fixed up to operate a short distance in the neighborhood. We rode on it yesterday with a whole class of school kids on a field trip. Fun stuff. So I`ve officially got the first American Transit documentation.

Promise to post some pics soon, but it will have to wait until we can get them off our camera. All in good time. 85 days left.