Lima Cafe

While waiting for Ted to settle into the hotel, Peter and Chaylee made an important discovery: a great little cafe just around the corner from our hotel that would become our regular coffee spot in Lima. Called Arabica (Recavarren 269, Miraflores), the owner is an american woman who learned about coffee in San Francisco and fell in love with a guy from Lima, then moved to Peru and opened this place. They use great old pull espresso machines are very hard to find, especially working as well as this one was.

The cafe was full of original art, including an updated version of quipus. Quipus are the Inca method of accounting and memory recording--except no one knows how they were used exactly because only the Inca Quipu priests knew how to read the Quipu and what was recorded on the. Since the Spanish killed the last actual Quipu reader a long time ago, we are left today with beautiful Quipu textiles that we have no idea how in interpret. Anyways the cafe had an interesting art project by a guy who weavde his own biography notebooks into a pseudo quipu.