Lima Cathedral

Lima - finally arrived in South America for the first time. After a long flight and the time difference I have not really 'arrived' yet - It will take a few days if not weeks for me to leave the old world behind and embrace the new one. But I am looking forward to the unexpected and the unknown. At least that's a start.

I check into the ' …

Ueber Lima haengt den ganzen Tag eine Nebel- und Wolkendecke. Nur selten sieht man den blauen Himmel durchblitzen. Trotzdem ist es immer sehr warm. Lima liegt am Rand der Atacama-Wueste, welche die trockenste Wueste der Welt ist.
Sehenswertes gibt es auch nicht wirklich viel. So haben wir nur die Ausgrabungsstaette "Huaca Pucllana" aus der Zeit …

Woke up around 8ish to have a good breakfast and some really intense coffee at the hotel and asked the front desk to call me a cab. From what I had read in the tour books, I really wanted to see Inglesia de Santo Domingo but my cute, little grandfatherly cab driver insisted that I go to the Monestario de San Francisco first. It wasnt one of the …

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 …

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 …

Hey after about five or six hours sleep we woke and started our day in Lima! Had breakfast and took a cab into the main city and basically wandered around. We went inside the Archbishops' Palace which had lots of religious art and colonial furniture from the 15th and 16thC. All the information was in Spanish so we moved quite quickly through the …

The next day we booked ourselves in for double decker bus sightseeing tour around the city of Lima. We covered the city's highlights which included plenty of beautiful old Spanish architectural buildings and statues. The tour ended at the Lima Cathedral where we were given a one hour tour inside the cathedral – it was absolutely amazing but …

Overview:
Have to say our initial impressions of Lima were not fantastic - not bad but more that is just another city and that's more or less what it turned out to be - with a couple of highlights thrown in there. It was however a good place to stop get over the jet lag, get our bearings and a feel for our trip ahead without feeling we should …

Our 9:00pm arrival in Lima shows us the city at night: Loads of cars and mini buses honking at each other as they all crowd into large round-about intersections. We see colorful billboards, few traffic lights and major tailgating. Vehicles are so close to one another that our driver, Antonio, tells me, in Spanish, "Do not take pictures out the …

We have just completed a two week stint in Peru. We have been incommunicado for most of it as we have seen the Amazon Jungle (did try my best to find the wi-fi) and up a mountain doing the Inka Trail (you'd of thought you could get good reception up there!!).

The Jungle was hot and humid, we saw howler monkeys, red macaws, toucans, turtles …

... conquistador Francisco Pizarro back in 1560īs. Still at the downtown area, lots of colonial buildings are still present. The Cathedral, Presidential palace are especially beautiful. I walked to the San francisco Monastery to see the Catacomb and some ...

... spread out and move about freely and relaxxxxx. We managed to get back out to Miraflores, go into Lima and explored the catacombs at the San Franciscan cathedral, walked the city and check out the Inquisistion museum. We have just had noodles for lunch ...

... guess LOVE is in the air.  I curiosity for photographing orante architectures took me to the Cusco central Market ( the last cathedral was right next to the mercado). Venders are selling all sort of weird stuff.  One of my favorite ...

... and only managed to spend about an hour. What we did see was pretty - lots of colonial buildings and a really gorgeous grand cathedral, but there was just a lack of interesting anything there! On top of that we got consistently pestered by the street ...

... with the sun beating down on my face......progress was becoming slower and slower. I decide to sit on the stairs of Lima Cathedral, well, there is a large crowd of people sitting there, minding their own business. With carrying my large backpack on my ...

... are gorgeous. Plus, I got to see a guy in tank. Check out the pictures. So the park was nice. And we went to a cathedral that has some relatively cool catacombs. Underground, skeletons, etc. etc. But it really didn't take long to see and do all we ...

... Palace which includes a brass band and lots of flighty soldierīs legs. Also worth a mention are La Basilica Cathedral de Lima, the San Francisco Convent with Catacombs and the Museo de la Inquisicion. The Basilica Tour guide was the best ...

... so short on time now that we couldnt even go overland through Ecuador, so after getting up at 2am we jumped on a plane bound for Lima - Peru. Of course nothing runs smoothly and we had hassle at Bogota airport, they told us that we needed to pay $60 ...

... and then colonial different coloured buildings. We walked to the mustard coloured Plaza de Armas and wandered around the cathedral, governors palace etc before noticing that a demo would be starting shortly. Police armed in riot gear started to ...

... and the cathedral and the churches, some built on massive stone Inca foundations, are really impressive and really ornate. The cathedral has one funny attraction, a Peruvian version of `The Last Supper` with the local specialty of roast Guinea pig (cuy) ...