San Francisco Monastery Lima

Goodbye Ecuador, hello Peru!! Ok same language, same time zone, even in the same bloody mountain range (Andes), but what a complete change of scenery is the fine Andean country of Peru!

Upon arrival at Lima Airport (Capital of Peru), all you can see are bill boards and advertisements in different shades, colours and sizes, but all of one …

Up this morning and down to breaky at about 8:30. I had cereal and fruit and some hot food and took a yummy yoghurt with me. Finished breaky and finished packing our bags for our check out today. I had confirmed with the hotel for a late checkout at 1.

At 9:30 we headed to the lobby and got the concierge to order a taxi to the San …

Yes fairy tale fans, after 17 years of boring everyone to tears banging on about it, various get rich quick schemes to save up enough for it, and two months of leaving do's, I've finally made it here to get on the gringo trail woooo hooooo!

First stop Lima, Peru and Condors House Hostel in Miraflores, where we were greeted by a table of …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

Farewell dinner last night in the hotel for the 4 people who are not doing the Peru extension..so we said goodbye to the two West Virginian Ladies Mary-Sue & Gayle, Roberta from Ventura California and David from Brisbane..The bus will be so much quieter without the ladies Southern Twang ! After dinner we went up the Sheraton Towers at the side …

... , 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 colonial architectures. The Spanish influence is very evidents with lots of ...

... 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 it seemed ...

... the morning...quite amusing watching Dave marching along besides them!!! Weird gringo! Our main aim was to visit the San Francisco monastery and it's famous catacombs which you can visit underneath the church! The church itself is a really nice building ...

... recommend is to visit the Museum of Inquisition, not just the exposition but also the building is very nice. Furthermore, the San Francisco monastery and its catacombs are worthwhile visiting.  I only spent two nights in the city, so I didn't have ...

... he even notices. Yet, people look at him and then look at Kate, Kurt and I and we stand out. Next stop is the San Francisco Monastery with hundreds of pigeons flocking around a fountain out front.  We want a tour but we need a snack.  We ...

... the cathedral which contains the bones of Pissaro (the leader of the Spanish conquistadors) but I did go into the San Francisco monastery which had an amazing library, with an estimated 25,000 books, as well as many beautifully decorated chapels.  ...

... Lima Skimming past the Plaza De Armas with its Palacio De Gobierno and Cathedral before stumbling upon the San Francisco Monastery and Church. Other than the fairly spectacular library of ancient scribbles, paintings, wall paintings and generally ...

... North through South America so it was great to be able to meet up for a day where our paths crossed. As Lima's number 1 sight is the San Francisco monastery we made a beeline there - and it was indeed very interesting. We had a one-hour guided tour. ...

... ;  Comfortable buses, security presence, and a well laid gringo trail.   We also checked out the San Francisco Monastery (3.50 Soles, English guided tour, 1 hour).  The monastery has an original antique Library with beautiful natural ...

... to see some markets and pig heads and policemen with machine guns standing around tanks. The best part, though, was the San Francisco monastery, under which they used to dump everyone's bones before they got a cemetery. So there are all these secret ...