Church of San Francisco (Iglesia de San Francisco) Lima

J'imagine votre question: "Alors cette première journée de visites ?" Sur ce, nous vous répondrions: "Contents et perplexes" "Ah?" Vous répondriez... "Oui" serait notre réponse ... ... ... Aaaaaaaaaah vous voulez des détails? Ben, fallait le dire. Donc: Nous avons commencé par la visite du musée Larco Herera …

We left Buenos Aires for the capital of Peru, Lima. After a hideous five hour flight we arrived at our hostel in the Miraflores district of Lima. The next day we decided to explore the centre of the city - we didn't realise it was 40 mins away in a taxi! We went to the centre and had a walk around - the architecture was lovely but it didn't really …

On holiday at last! Our flight to Lima was meant to leave at 7pm on 28 Feb but was promptly rescheduled to 7am due to pending strikes in Spain. 15 hours later we finally landed in Lima, got our bags off the carousel and organised a cab to the hostel. This was our first introduction to driving, South American style. I've come to think that most of …

Set my alarms for 5.20am Brazilian time and checked my bag in; got to queue jump as I was flying business class :-) then checked out of the hotel etc. Got served potato omelette and fruit and juice, and sat in a big leather seat. It was very nice. There was a spectacular view of Rio, including Christ the Redeemer and Copacabana and Ipanema, the …

September 28 to September 30, 2012: Lima, Peru

Lima was part of our itinerary only because it was the location of the international airport. I had read that it was a dangerous city and so had not planned on spending any time there. As it turns out, however, we had a day to kill (unfortunate pun …) so we ended up spending a day and …

Arrived in Lima with my two Irish friends in-tow at Hostel Pariwana, handily located within spitting distance of all the nightclubs, casinos, bars, KFCs, Pizza Huts and McDonalds. Stu´s first words on arriving at our hostel were..."I think I´m going to like Lima." Actually I think that turned out to a bit of an understatment in the end!

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Day 1 - Friday 7th September

We arrived very early in the morning in Lima at 5am! Our bags took ages to come but when they finally arrived we left the airport at 6.30 and arrived at our hotel at 7am.

We were quite awake but tired from our night flight (it is -6 hrs gmt here) so we had a shower, some breakfast and went for a walk …

On Monday I meet Wendy and grandchildren at the Plaza de Armas, Lima's central square. Peru’s riot police are out. They are almost a fixture here. The Plaza has now been endowed with iron gates on the streets that approach the square. These gates can be closed in case of protests presumably to avoid the Presidential Palace being burnt down or …

Hola again! Well we have made it to Peru after an easy two flights from Cancun Mexico. We are currently flaking it in our hostel room in Cuzco as we are over 11,000 feet above sea level and the altitude is raping us! Also a 22 hour bus trip here wouldn't have helped. Lucky we were in a 5 star coach. Lima was pretty good. Not overly exciting and 3 …

Our first day in Lima could not have been any better!

We woke up relatively early so that we can get breakfast and get our day started. By 9 am, we were ready to set off for the short walk from our B&B to Larcomar, a shopping center nearby that makes for an unlikely tourist attraction due to the fact that is carved off the cliff and …

... it is against the doctrine of apathy to be bothered to attempt to convert people in the first place. We arrive at the Church of San Francisco, the founder of the Franciscan religious movement founded 800 years ago next month. It is another place of ...

...  as their capital - more fool them - I know where I'd prefer to live! Then we wandered to the Church of San Francisco, a lovely church very reminiscent in style to the Alhambra in Spain which we have visited, with its beautiful tiles, as well as ...

... stories fall on me! But I digress! Three of the colonial period (1535-1821) structures are the most famous in Peru. One is the Church of San Francisco (No, not the one in California!) It is named after Francis of Assisi, the patron saint animals and ...

... pleasant, with no sign of potential criminal activity. We walked a number of blocks around the city core, visited the Church of San Francisco, and enjoyed the early evening crowds of people. One of the casualties of our cancelled earlier flight had ...

... seeing.  however, by my standards we did not spend enough time in the Barranco District or the Church of San Francisco...so i will be going back :) lima has 45 districts, we walked around 3 major ones...but definately drove past quite a ...

... old buildings. We went into the cathedral and down into the catacombs, and saw some old paintings. Then we walked to the church of San Francisco as Leo wanted to see the catacombs there which were much more full of old bones. We had an excellent guided ...

... hermandad (brotherhood) who carry the "anda".   After witnessing the procession, we made our way to the church of San Francisco de Asis. There, we had the great fortune of watching numerous "groupos folkloricos". These groups were part ...

... Christs. It was a great tour and we were able to photograph throughout, albeit without flash. Next we toured the church of San Francisco, a 16th century Moorish-influenced building with perfect puzzle pieces of Nicaraguan mahogany in its décor. The most ...

... in various sights and shopping centres. The highlight amongst the usual pretty colonial buildings and plazas was the baroque church of San Francisco, in particular it's creepy catacombs filled with the bones and skulls of hundreds of unfortunates, piled ...

... Thursday, I took a double decker tour bus around Lima.  Lots of historical buildings including the Plaza Mayor (Centre Square) and Church of San Francisco.  I´m sure I don´t have all the details right, but it is (was?) a church & convent ...