Day 6

Claes: Friday. We had a chance to sleep in a little bit this morning. Since Father Marco Arana could not meet with us yesterday we have scheduled a meeting with him at a restaurant in Miraflores later today. Father Marco lives in Cajamarca and has been an human rights advocate there for many years, sometimes called El Diablo, because he has been very outspoken and vocal when it comes to human rights and the protests against foreing-owned investments in mining and petroleum in northern Peru.

Claes: In the afternoon we meet with Lucien Chauvin, who writes from Lima for Time Magazine and his partner Enrique who is one of the founders of MHOL. After a cpouple of quick interviews we head to perhaps the best restaurant of the trip: La Fiesta not far from our Lima producer Sharon Stevenson's home in Miraflores. The tastiest dish (that, unfortunately, I didn't order) was the slightly heated cheviche (on a banana leaf?) - it was just delicious!

Jon: The spectacular nature of this last warm Ceviche can't be underestimated. It has become a culinary high-point of the entire trip. First, the restaurant La Fiesta is the Lima version of a similar restaurant of the same name we are to visit in Chiclayo, in northern Peru the next evening (where Claes ordered the same dish, which was good, but not up to the standard of the one in Lima).

Second, it seems that every time we discuss the great (and sometimes not so great) food we had, we always find ourselves referring back to that spectacular Ceviche, with two langostinos perched atop. It was simply fabulous, perhaps one of the finest 'marisco' (sea food) dishes I've ever had.

Finally, one of the silly side-stories of our trip: we had planned to take photos of all the fine dishes we ate, for our scrap book, and potentially for stories to produce. And seemingly every time another great dish was set in front of us, we tucked in and devoured the food before realizing that we had neglected to take a photo. In consolation, we have a couple of pictures of decimated dishes, after their demise at the hands of two gluttons!