...bad side

The Rimac neighborhood is so notorious that a city employee reluctantly allows us to cross the bridge in the evening. We stay on our residential street and avoid the side streets, especially in the evening. We find the authentic life of the locals, with street vendors and food stalls, families and people going home after work. There are also a number of beautiful colonial buildings. It may be that there is mob violence in the side streets, but there is certainly enough police presence. The real slums are outside the city and resemble the former Brazilian favelas: built higher and higher up the hills, only here they look like dry garbage dumps. The third taxi driver also refuses to take us to the nicer and wealthier neighborhoods of Miraflores and San Isidoro, for some reason. We end our trip to this 10-million-inhabitant megacity with a delicious dinner at Cordano, where government officials and the president used to meet.