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EL SALTO DEL FRAILE
e drove a few miles up the It must have been an off night for the
sparkling coast from Bar‐ restaurant. The vast dining room was
ranco to El Salto del Fraile, a empty except for one couple in the midst of
W large restaurant overlooking celebrating something despite the gloomy
a rugged point. Outside the entrance, the atmosphere. The staff of two barely mum‐
lights of Lima twinkled in the distance. bled a greeting. Why, we wondered, did Ed‐
Gusty winds slammed furious waves onto ward bring us here? We took a seat at a
the rocks below. window table with a direct view of the turbu‐
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