Plaza San Martin Lima

We flew into Lima from Cusco and arrived at its modern airport. It was a far cry from the mayhem I remembered when I arrived from Madrid in 2003. This was to be a consistent theme over the 4 days we stayed in Lima. We caught a taxi to our hotel in the Miraflores suburb. Miraflores is Lima's most affluent suburb, situated on a cliff top overlooking …

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 …

Yeah, finally the time has come that Eva will be arriving. From now on we will be travelling together. We will be heading up the north of Peru and will cross the boarder to Ecuador.

I arrived in Lima a day early to give me some time to look round and so that I could go to the airport the next day to collect Eva. After the lovely sunshine …

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 …

The following morning we had to get up at 7:30 for a guided group tour around Lima. We were the first ones to be picked up, followed by a group of Americans and group of Canadians. The first place we visited was still inside Miraflores and was a very short distance from the Sonesta Miraflores as it turned out. It was a little park, and it wasn't …

The bus arrived at 6am. Bleery eyed, we took a taxi to the city centre and went to find breakfast. We watched the unusual changing of the guards outside the presidentual palace and then walked the streets for a spot of window shopping and Plaza people watching before we made our way back to the bus terminal to get our bus to Cusco …

...are crazy.

So crazy, in fact, that I'll have to get that particular part of my story out of the way before I touch on anything else. I thought Alberta drivers were terrible. I was wrong.

Most streets in Lima are one-ways. I’ve only seen one or two that aren’t, so far. There are clearly marked lanes, just as in …

I arrived in Lima a couple of days before my Dragoman trip so I had plenty of time to get my travelling head on and explore this beautiful city.

Before I came, I was swithering about whether I should choose a quaint hotel in the old town or go for one of the chains in Miraflores. Arriving at the Gran Hotel Bolivar I knew I had made …

... . It was quite grusome.       I finished the day by visiting Chinatown, avenida de la Union and Plaza San Martin. I was  quite shocked about a nice size Chinatown here, although the size is no comparison to San ...

... Gringo!!', I laugh and wave back. This happened three times, well so far. I walk past, Parque de la Cultura, Plaza Grau, Plaza San Martin before reaching Plaza de Armas. At Plaza de Armas, I'm pretty tired, I figure I'm lugging around 24 ...

... buildings and museums with beautiful architecture to downtown Lima with its amazing wooden baloneys, plazas and churches. Plaza Mayor and Plaza San Martin were our favourites and we couldn't help but notice the police actively patrolling these ...

... Mirasol met me and we went to Kennedy Park in Miraflores and took a tour of the city.  We went through Plaza San Martin and Plaza De Armas ,both are beautiful open squares in the middle of the busy city with brightly colored buildings and ...

... , she has a llama, hilarious. After having a good laugh about the llama crown, we headed to another famous landmark on the Plaza San Martin, the home of the Pisco Sour, the Hotel Bolivar. We snuck in another cheeky Pisco Sour, far better than the first, ...

... on the map in case we missed ours. We were the only tourists on the bus but it felt fine. We got off close to Plaza San Martin with the aim of walking down to the Plaza de Armas. Our attention was taken by a restaurant called El Estadio which had ...

... on the night bus). We booked a tour of central Lima for the afternoon. Central Lima had a very European feel to it. From the Plaza San Martin to the Plaza de Armas the grandeur of the buildings was amazing. The most interesting part of the tour was ...

... historique en une journee, de son couvent et autres eglises, de ces 2 jolies places (Plaza de Armas et Plaza San Martin), surtout de ses nombreux carrefours blindes, bruillants et pollues, de ses buildings noircis et defenestres..... En bref, "non" je ...

We made it to the capital of Peru and stayed at a lovely hotel in a room with a balcony  which I could see Plaza San Martin from, and it was very pretty (if noisy) at night.   We went down to Miraflores one day and wandered ...

... gorgeous in with lights illuminating the Palacio Arzobispal and the Palacio de Gobierno. Just a bit further South is the Plaza San Martin, which also had some nice architecture around it, with colonial balconies and fountains. Finally we went to the ...