Cafe "El Origen"

El Origen is my favorite coffee place in my hometown. They often come up with a new house specialty in desserts. Furthermore, I use this location for face-to-face coaching sessions and dates. Would you like to try a coffee-coaching session with me? Let me know in the comments section.

Location's facade in Pueblo Libre

Simón Bolivar Avenue 1199

Cashier

Delicious Desserts

Urban Cycling Trips

If you don’t know me yet, my name is Ana. I live in Lima, Peru and one of my favorite hobbies is to ride bicycles. I used to race in MTB as well as BMX competitions. Thus, I decided to monetize this hobby offering my services on a bike: 

• Life coaching for women who need to feel empowered.
• Cycling classes for beginners.
• Short trips for people who want to have fun.
• English/Spanish conversation for people who is learning any of these languages. 

Choose the option that better adjusts to your requirements and contact me 😊

📧anamostacero@gmail.com

Cycling in Lima

This summer I'm turning back to sports. Despite of many bad experiences I left them a long time. Now I restart my summer cycling, running, swimming and playing basketball (my first game of the year is this wednesday). I'm also looking for boxing academies so I promise to take photos when I find one. But this post is about cycling . From my experience I think the safe route and the more panoramic view is going over the sea by the Costa Verde or by the waterfront until chorrillos, exactely stopping in Agua Dulce and turning back because the place is kind of dangerous (too much traffic and bad-faces people). Although is ok if you are in group. In this route you will see the amazing sundown, the beach, the Maria Reiche park wich is like a hidden treassure and many people making sports so you won't feel alone. I took some photos of the skate park in San Isidro but I just could rescue one =( . There's also a circuit for bikes. Next time I'll take photos of the park and the sunset. I'll show you in my next post.

Skate Park

Parque Maria Reiche

Parque de la Imaginación - Imagination Park

The well named "Parque de la Imaginación" is an interactive museum that mixes technology, imagination and science in a funny way so you learn as the same time you are kind of playing a game. It's cool and relatively new in Peru (2008). It's organized in educational modules divided on: science, space, life, energy, biodiversity, ilusion and mechanics. In which one there are "games" and a guide that allows you to experiment cause-effect while you are interacting. The park is really big and also is a good idea made by peruvian capitals. I went this year and it was not crowded. I hope more people get to know this beautiful place. The  tion park is located in San Miguel, close to Plaza San Miguel where you can eat, shop, drink or take coffee. Then it's perfect for a day in San Miguel. Ahh...I forgot...the ticket costs 8 soles and it's for all the games, during all the time you want to stay. Inside there's a snacks shop I don't recommend, so eat before going.

Here some photos of my visit:

I was suppossed to be into in a buble

My mother kind of ansious to exit this game

My nephew going fast and slow

Wanna go? Riva Agüero Aveneu block 8, San miguel, Lima, Peru

Website: http://www.elparquedelaimaginacion.com/

Santos Dumont Park - When a simplest thing is just beautiful

Today I went to eat at the Blue Moon. After that I walked in a place I'd like to live, Lince. This is located in Cesar Vallejo Avenue. Starting by that I love Vallejo's poetry. Beside that there's two beautiful and large parks. Since my point of view one is specially designed for running and the other for family or couples enterteinment. In this post I'm going to tell you about one of the parks called in spanish Parque Santos Dumont, in the next post I'll talk about the running park. I know the pictures talk themselves then you will agree with me in the point this park is just amazing. I've never been in the United States so I can imagine an american native reading my blog can think it's not something to be surprised or maybe agree with me, I just don't know and don't care at all =P . In Lima close to my house there'are not so many parks as magical as this, I've never seen parks like this in Miraflores or San Isidro, and the nice parks ove there have the flower or candy's sellers I hate (they always interrupt). Thus, I never see this park so crowded, at the afternoon the lake can turn very romantic, there're a mini-gym outdoor and a playground for children and adults. It looks like a country club and the best of all a lot of things are free or very cheap. I take many photos this time and hope you enjoy this park as much as me. I wonder how simplest thing as walking may turn into a moment to remember.

Let's see:



My lunch



Blue Moon's ceiling

Ramon Castilla

The lake

Romantic view

Looks like an adult with a train toy

Panoramic view

Bumper boats



Mini gym at the park



Gandhi's head

Want to visit the park? Go straight to Vallejo Avenue, Lince, Lima, Peru

 

La Granja Azul

Sorry for not posting more often. Supposedly  I was going to post every single day, but some days are turned very bussy. So here I am to post again and again until you die,haha. Ok, today I'm going to tell you about my trip on wednesday 8th. The company where I belong drive us to La Granja Azul (the blue farm), a place located at 1:20 hour of  San Isidro. This place is usually hired for events and family ceremonies, then it is not so crowded and public. They offer a lunch of unlimited baby chicken with unlimited french fries potatos and unlimited salad and one glass of La Granja Azul's pisco sour wich is not so bad (not so good either). They also have a play ground with artificial climbing walls, quads circuit (both for adults and children) and another enterteinment I didn't see close but I know there are and they mention in their website, like a little train trip, artificial lake with pedal boats, walks on ponies, etc. I don't think it's some of the best place I've ever been but it's no so bad. The baby chicken is its specialty but for me was OK, maybe you should go and try because a lot of people say the baby chicken is the best.

I didn't take photos, but I share with you a collage I made with 2 photos I found in the Web:

If you want more information about this place check out this: http://www.granja-azul.com.pe/

Location? Santa Clara, Carretera Central Km 11.5, Ate,

Lima, Peru

Parque de la Amistad (the friendship park)

I heard a lot of the Parque de la Amistad (friendship park) things like it offers a trip over the park on train, it has a lake, it has pisco sour stands, it has games for children and those little boats to go over the lake. I also passed over there once and I saw it had a beautiful architecture like a fantasy palace at night. Then, one day I decided to go with my family and yeah! it was memorable. But please don't get confused by the name, is not called friendship park because you can make friends in the park, it's just a name (sorry to dissapoint you). The park is cool to walk in family as well as hanging out friends or your fiance(at nigth can turn very romantic). You can taste delicious pisco sours and other coctels based on pisco from many vineyards of Peru and there are many delicious dishes to eat, specially grilled meat and sausages. It's a place I strongly recommend to visit in Lima. The place outside is very safe.

Here my favorite view:



Park since 6:00 pm

And here's the train:

Wanna know? Av. Caminos del Inca block 21 (not number), Surco
More photos here: http://www.surcoperu.com/multimedia-peru/index.php

Eco Truly Park

Sometimes after office I used to go to a vegetarian restaurant called "La Revolución de la Cuchara" because of their delicious pies based on soja and the mystic atmosphere of the place (upstair there was a Krishna temple and people with indian make up), after eating I used to went upstairs to see their ceremonies (and to sing, but shhh..). The point is that I realized they have a beautiful place in Huaral (province of Lima) that I decided to visit. Certainly I must to dissapoint you because is not like the photo, but it's no ugly either. With more care and not insect flying near the food it could be better. Sometimes foreigners think Lima is only the Central Square and Museums but STOP thinking like that!!! There's a universe about less than 2 hours of the town. For example, Huaral that not only has the Eco Truly Park, but a beautifull and clean beach and historical places to visit. Yes, I would return to see the whole view.

Pd.- You must be thinking why I've talking in past tense at the beginning, is because after a while "La Revolución de la Cuchara" changed its adress then is not in my way home.

This is the photo that made me go:

Ubicated on Km. 19.5 Carretera Serpentin de Pasamayo (at the end of Pasamayo)

Aucallama, Huaral, Lima

More information? http://www.ecotrulypark.org/

Wanna see more photos?

Huaral beach

Trulys around the beach (there's a cave behind that hill)

Ecologycal restroom, haha =D

Remmeber this pic? It's called a "truly", there are plenty of them.