Here are some pictures from the first day of my vacation to Peru. The day was mostly spent traveling from Washington, D.C. to Lima, as explained in
this earlier post.
First for a map of the route we took: IAD-SAL-LIM. The map is courtesy of the Great Circle Mapper.
This is the new Aerotrain at Washington Dulles Airport.
And it took us to the B concourse of IAD, which is festooned with multi-colored flags from different countries!
This is a closeup view of the seat back pocket on our aircraft. It is all plastic and of fixed size. Good luck fitting anything into it that is more than about half an inch thick!
This is a view of the interior of our aircraft from the back of the aircraft. Notice the overhead video screens every few rows.
And this is a view outside the aircraft. This is an Airbus A321 aircraft. Did you know that the A321 (like most other commercial aircraft) carries most of its fuel in its wings? This aircraft, according to the in-flight magazine, has a fuel capacity of 7,051 gallons of fuel!
Lunch is served!
And this is my tamarind banana juice. Ummm . . . Yummy!
A view of the main concourse of San Salvador airport. Notice the shops lining the central corridor. The elevated moving walkway in the middle of the concourse was not working.
A view of an aircraft parked at a gate at San Salvador airport. The gate areas at the airport have large glass windows from which you can get good pictures of aircraft at the gates.
Here are a couple of views of our hotel room in Lima, at the San Agustin Colonial. Notice how there are no tables in the room apart from the one on which the TV is sitting (unfortunately, the hotel had not yet installed wall-mounted LCD TV's yet). The small bedside tables do not have a clock or other goodies like a writing pad and pens, etc. Did I mention that this was not a 5-star hotel?!
This is the bathroom. Notice the raised shower area on the right hand side. Peru hotel bathrooms, in general, do not have vent fans. In this case, there was a window above the shower area that could be opened to ventilate the bathroom. There are no shower caps provided.
This is the corridor leading from the elevator to our hotel room. We were on the third floor of the hotel (there was some kind of banquet hall on the 4th floor, but no guest rooms higher than on the 3rd floor). Notice the steps you have to climb up and down to get from the elevator to the hotel room. As I said, not very handicapped-friendly. The walls had framed, antique-looking oil paintings on them.
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