Plaza de Armas (Plaza Mayor) Lima

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 …

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 …

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 …

For our final day, we opted for a short city tour in the afternoon but spent the morning navigating around Miraflores checking out the views and sites. Miraflores is a beautiful town with its views of the ocean and architecture as well as great places to eat. We spent about 5 hours walking through the city checking out Larcomar (a big commercial …

And now, the city of Lima. Frommer's refers to it as a "mostly unlovely capital" with “Peru’s blistering poverty more apparent here than anywhere else” – but “if you skip Lima altogether, you’ll miss a vital part of what is Peru today.” With that in mind, to be honest our only reason for stopping was a …

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 …

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245 miles south of Las Tortugas, we arrived in the capital city of Lima, lots of traffic,compared to the very light traffic across the desert. Here we will "base " for a few days, see the city, and do the side trips to MachuPicchu, Galopus Islands, or other locations.

We just got back from the city tour. We got picked up around 2 PM and drove to a park relatively close to Larcomar. It's called the Lovers Park. We walked around a bit and took pictures. There were a lot of people hang gliding near by.

Then we drove quite a bit to Plaza Mayor. On the way we saw a few important buildings like the court …

... suit and booked a bus to Huaraz in the Cordillera mountains, for the next night.  As we were in Central Lima we went to the Plaza de Armas to have a look around and grabbed a cheap menu del dia. It was pretty enough with bright yellow buildings, ...

... Lima. I headed for the central district with it's beautiful colonial buildings. I walked most of the 7km from Miraflores to Plaza de Armas in the centre. Surrounding Plaza de Armas is some of the prettiest colonial architecture I've seen on my travels in ...

... lovely ornate old, french looking galleries 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. ...

... to do much in Lima we just wandered around town and wondered why there were so many people out on the streets. Walking to the Plaza de Armas we negotiated our way through about 40 police officers, half of them in riot gear. Cool! A riot! But no there ...

... central Lima today, and the sun has broken through the cloud, so everything looks a lot better. Go to the Plaza De Armas, a nice pretty square with churches, old buildings and yellow/orange painted buildings. Walked further down to Plaza Martin, ...

... of white stone for the impressive cathedral and ornate churches. It is a very nice town with a pretty central square (another Plaza de Armas, which every town has) and plenty of tourist restaurants offering the usual food, but the best attraction is the ...

... others (it's incredible what they achieved without the wheel!!) After the museum, we drove to the centre of Lima, the Plaza de Armas, and visited the San Francisco monastery. We all got very confused about the description of monastery and convent as ...

... 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 people everywhere.  We ...

... it's the chaos I was expecting. The bus terminal is more central that I expected. I workout, I'm just under a mile away from the Plaza de Armas. I compact my gear, gear up, and I trudge off. My bags aren't too heavy, well, to begin with. There is a ...

... is rundown, dirty, polluted and political unstable. Me and Juliette visited most the palaces, museums and cathedrals around Plaza de Armas (central square), as well as few museums on Paseo de Republica. All this history was little too overwhelming after ...