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Bike Tours of Lima

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Church of San Francisco (Iglesia de San Francisco) Lima

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  • Jun 1, 2008: ... prefer to live! Then we wandered to the Church of San Francisco, a lovely church very reminiscent in style to the Alhambra ...
  • Sep 11, 2009: ... (1535-1821) structures are the most famous in Peru. One is the Church of San Francisco (No, not the one in California!) It ...
  • May 27, 2009: ... a number of blocks around the city core, visited the Church of San Francisco, and enjoyed the early evening crowds of people. ...
  • May 31, 2009: ... time in the Barranco District or the Church of San Francisco...so i will be going back :) lima has 45 districts, we walked ...

Plaza San Martin Lima

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  • Aug 14, 2008: ... day by visiting Chinatown, avenida de la Union and Plaza San Martin. I was  quite shocked about a nice size  ...
  • Nov 30, 2008: ... with its amazing wooden baloneys, plazas and churches. Plaza Mayor and Plaza San Martin were our favourites and we couldn't ...
  • Jul 3, 2008: ... afternoon. Central Lima had a very European feel to it. From the Plaza San Martin to the Plaza de Armas the grandeur of ...
  • Jul 15, 2008: ... and details carved into the stone. I then walk back to Plaza San Martin and sit down to decide what to do next which is a ...

Miraflores Lima

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  • May 25, 2009: ... that my leg took a few steps backwards when we got to Lima, probably the change in elevation, but it is back on track better ...
  • May 23, 2009: ... of days to wait for an available seat, so we hit the Miraflores district and swapped dirty roads for clean linen (and not a ...
  • Mar 28, 2005: ... So Bev and I decided to head over to Miraflores, which is that posh part of Lima we hung out in for my birthday. We spent ...
  • Aug 3, 2006: ... It's quite nice. I spent the entire day in Miraflores today. I popped into a couple department stores, had a shady ...

Parque Reserva Lima

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Huaca Pucllana (Juliana) Lima

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  • Aug 30, 2008: ... hee. We finished the afternoon with an english tour of Huaca Pucllana which is an archaeolgical site built over 500 years ...
  • Sep 27, 2006: ... 30 seconds to pick up people) to northern Miraflores and Huaca Pucllana a system of pyramids created from adobe with bricks ...
  • May 26, 2008: ... in the middle of Miraflores!   Well, when I left the Huaca Pucllana it was definitely time for lunch. I walked down ...
  • Mar 18, 2008: ... is only recently excavated in the 1980s. Huaca Pucllana was built by the Lima people between 400-700AD. Pachacamac is a ...

Plaza de Armas (Plaza Mayor) Lima

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  • Apr 11, 2009: ... buildings. I walked most of the 7km from Miraflores to Plaza de Armas in the centre. Surrounding Plaza de Armas is some of ...
  • Oct 9, 2006: ... so many people out on the streets. Walking to the Plaza de Armas we negotiated our way through about 40 police officers, ...
  • Sep 27, 2006: ... coloured buildings. We walked to the mustard coloured Plaza de Armas and wandered around the cathedral, governors palace etc ...
  • Apr 28, 2005: ... , so everything looks a lot better. Go to the Plaza De Armas, a nice pretty square with churches, old buildings and yellow/ ...

San Francisco Monastery Lima

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  • Aug 14, 2008: ... Presidential palace are especially beautiful. I walked to the San francisco Monastery to see the Catacomb and some colonial ...
  • May 1, 2004: ... we drove to the centre of Lima, the Plaza de Armas, and visited the San Francisco monastery. We all got very confused about ...
  • Jul 2, 2005: ... Weird gringo! Our main aim was to visit the San Francisco monastery and it's famous catacombs which you can visit underneath ...
  • Nov 18, 2006: ... the Spanish conquistadors) but I did go into the San Francisco monastery which had an amazing library, with an estimated 25, ...

Museo Larco Lima

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  • Sep 25, 2008: ... impressive). Then followed an AMAZING lunch in the restaurant of Museo Larco, and Inca museum.  We tried Ceviche for ...
  • Jul 12, 2007: ... is interested). We decided to visit a museum that evening, Museo Larco. The musuem has an unbeatable collection of pottery ...
  • Jul 25, 2009: ...  On Friday we visited a fantastic museum called Museo Larco which was an archaeology museum with fabulous pottery ...
  • Aug 16, 2009: ... his wife's company.  Manuel and Carmen took us to the Museo Larco which tied together the history of the Inca and other ...

Pachacamac Lima

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  • Jul 24, 2009: ... .. Tommorow will be a long day of putting in the tile at Pachacamac, but it will be good time spent with the church. The ...
  • Jul 26, 2009: ... with some bread and tea.. Tomorrow its back to work at Pachacamac.. Hope to get 2 rooms done, but we will see... fun, fun, ...
  • Mar 18, 2008: ... San Isidro. Further outside the city about 40km from Lima is Pachacamac. For thousand of years people knew there is a temple ...
  • Jan 28, 2007: ... better - Huaycan, an even older establishment in the mountains. Pachacamac had a tourist feel to it, but Huaycan was just at ...

Convento de San Francisco Lima

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  • Jan 15, 2008: ... tome otro les hago saber. Fuimos al centro de Lima  al Convento de San Francisco. Alli ese lugar es famoso por sus ...
  • Jan 14, 2008: ... .  it was very cool. then we went to the convento de san francisco.  it was built in the 16th century and much of ...
  • Apr 14, 2007: ... (whew hoo!), followed by the much more interesting Convento de San Francisco (where the underground catacombs are), and then ...
  • Jul 5, 2007: ...  We also visited the Iglesia and Convento de San Francisco where we explored the eerie catacombs where thousands ...

National Museum (Museo de la Nacion) Lima

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  • Aug 14, 2008: ... on my agenda is to visit the National Museum of Peru and finish the tour of Downtown Lima. Too bad most of the National ...
  • Apr 17, 2005: ... , (itīs all very civillised indeed). We visited the National Museum, which was very informative and houses many of the local ...
  • Dec 8, 2007: ... went to the Museo de la Nacion.  Okay, if this is the National Museum why isnīt it better.  I thought that the pre- ...
  • Sep 10, 2007: ... , unwilling to go out again. Sunday involved visiting Ecuador's national museum. Because I hadn't been, and it was easy. ...

Museo Pedro de Osma Lima

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  • May 17, 2009: ... there and it turned out to be an art museum, Museo Pedro de Osma.  It contains incredible art, a whole mansion full, ...

Barranco Lima

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  • Aug 6, 2005: ... after stories of strangle muggings but walking around Miraflores and Barranco was fine. Miraflores and Barranco are the " ...
  • Sep 17, 2005: ... nightlife. Somewhat touristy and upscale neighborhoods like Miraflores, Barranco and San Isidro are also great places to ...
  • Oct 16, 2006: ... already in our hands. The second night in Lima, we go out for the night in Barranco and find a street lined with door to ...
  • Sep 14, 2006: ... tour. I m staying at Hostal Gemina (Avenida Grau 620 Barranco) which is in an excellent location, just south of Miraflores ...

Shopping Center Larcomar (Centro Comercial Larcomar) Lima

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  • Jul 17, 2007: ... with locals. Continuing to wander around I came across a shopping centre (Larcomar) that is built into the cliff face ...
  • Dec 4, 2008: ... the coast and ends in a shopping center (Larcomar) carved into the cliffs overlooking the pacific.  Lima is pretty cheap by ...

Colonial City (Old City) Lima

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  • Oct 16, 2006: ... to skip this tourist attraction. Arequipa, ummm, Another Colonial City Arequipa has three main attractions, the ...
  • Oct 16, 2009: ... ! Ah - we also squeezed in today a tour of the old colonial city where the seat of Spanish government was in the old days.& ...
  • Nov 18, 2008: ... in Arequipa late afternoon and settled into our hotel. Arequipa is a colonial city with its guardian volcano, El Misti. On ...
  • Jun 19, 2007: ... glad to have taken time to see Lima.  Decided to head south to colonial city of Arequipa, and debated whether or ...

Iglesia de San Agustin Lima

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Amano Museum (Museo Amano) Lima

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Gold Museum (Museo de Oro del Peru) Lima

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  • Sep 5, 2002: ... Hall (Southbank) in London... Then to Museo do Oro (gold museum), some really nice pieces that the Spanish fortunately left ...
  • Jan 18, 2005: ... finished blowing some steam, we went to visit the gold museum. The museum itself is a must-see. Very impressive, it holds, ...
  • Aug 1, 2008: ... (16 hours by bus, how relaxing).We went to a gold museum in Lima and visited the San Francisco Cathedral and some tumbes. ...
  • Jul 27, 2007: ... pictures, and a great exhibit of "Oro" -- ie, similar to the gold museum, with some history of pre-inca cultures. I got a ...

Caral Lima

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  • 10 travel blogs
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  • Nov 2, 2006: ... Archeology buffs should check out the ancient city of Caral, three hours from Peru, and dating from 2000 B.C. It was found in ...
  • Oct 27, 2008: ... for a day trip to a local archaeological site. We choose "Caral" initially which had some pre-Inca pyramids but we couldnīt ...
  • Mar 3, 2008: ... pass after another we finally come to the parking lot/ entrance to Caral. the heat hits you like a brick wall and we all ...
  • Apr 5, 2008: ... ;Sin duda alguna lo que mas disfrute fue mi viaje a Caral una antigua civilizacion contemporanea a la de los Egipcios ...
 
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