A chocolatey end to our Peruvian adventure

We're nearing the end of our South American adventure; just one flight left now until we touch down in the home land. 

In order to avoid aimlessly wandering Lima all afternoon yesterday we had a slow morning, watched a film and had a relaxed breakfast before hitting the streets around 11am. 

We started off at the inca market, very similar to those in Cusco and la Paz and much bigger than expected. By the time we had finished 'window shopping' it was nearly midday so we spent a while scouting out the cheapest acceptable sandwich in central Lima. This turned out to be more than adequate and we demolished our chicken and mushroom melts. 

We'd booked our highlight of the day for 1.30pm... A chocolate museum tour. Here we learnt about the process of transforming a cocoa pod to the beautiful thing we know as chocolate. We were given the opportunity to test numerous chocolates, which we took in our stride, then make our own in a range of flavours. An hour later we left coated in chocolate and clutching a bag of goodies. 

Took another walk down to the cliff tops and read for a few hours before a dinner of pizza and a beer for Libby (didn't want anything risky before our long flights). 

Back at the hostel, just before our taxi came to collect us, we were invited on to the roof for a free cocktail in return for some photos. Here we met a friendly father and daughter from Hawaii who we were able to share a taxi with, saving us a few more soles. 

Luckily we had, as usual, left plenty of time for the airport as it took over an hour to check in our bags. We spent the rest of the time making it our mission to use up every last sole before boarding the plane. During our mission we discovered that Lima airport has a generous amount of testers including a range of chocolate covered fruits and pisco sours. 

By the time we got on the flight we didn't really need the sandwich and cake provided. The 7 hour flight went fairly quickly as we slept and ate our way through most of it. 

The automated U.S. security was simple and we're now whiling away our 8 hour stay in Dallas airport by reading, chatting and devouring the biggest burritos I've ever seen (Texas is living up to its name!)

Just over 12 hours left now until we return home with cameras full of snaps, heads full of wonderful memories, bellies full of unusual foods and bags stuffed full with alpaca wool.