Lovely Lima

So I had the priviledge of arriving into Lima at 4 am this morning. Luckily the people at Loki Hostel are amazing and let me sleep on the couch in the TV room until morning when I could get my Visa card from the office. Cash advance was successful!!! I am officially back on track, however I'm not quite sure what I'm running on. I saved my sleeping pill for tonight because I ended up on a semi-shady bus and wanted to have my wits about me, just in case. I witnessed someone get violently arrested outside the bus station before I boarded, and the bus just wasn't the nicest. All went well though (aside from maybe dozing a total of 2 hours). I leave on the 5pm bus tonight for Arequipa (15 hours). The hostel booked me a ticket with a much better company so I hope to sleep tonight.
I wandered around a few hours through Lima today, in the swankier, newer area of Miraflores. I then hopped a bus down to the historic centre just in time to see the ¨changing of the guards¨at noon. I wandered around some more, stretching my legs after all the buses. Lima is hotter than I expected, and although I again applied factor 30 sunscreen, I feel I may have gotten a bit of colour again. It's as though I'm taking malaria pills again and I'm photosensitive- I can't understand why I keep getting burned. And it was cloudy all day as well. I suppose I shouldn't complain about the heat and sun though...