Saturday, October 31, 2009

Construction update

When the people were moving out across the street we were told that the houses would be torn down and a 5 Star Hotel would be built.

Paulo came in the office this past week and said that a Metros was being built there. This is great news for us as we won't have as far to go to the grocery store. Metro is a big grocery store chain here.
As if the construction going on across the street and big dump trucks constantly coming out on Basadre wasn't enough they decided to tear up the entire street. First they stripped all the asphalt off. Now they have torn up the sidewalks on both sides of the street.
It is like walking through a land mine to get to the office and back to our apartment each day.

at 9:18 AM  

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Inka Shops

Inka Shops
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Highway

Highway
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Highway

Highway
Another highway running thru Lima.

Tall buildings

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Pacific Ocean
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