Country Info
- Lima
- Capital
- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
- Currency
- 27,483,864
- Population
- PE
- Country Code
Lima Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lima, Peru
Nazca, Ica and Miraflores: Pacific Coast of Peru
This is a top pick! ... , unloaded to mule train again and loaded on to ships again heading for Spain on the Caribbean side), and since Peru's independence from Spain, Lima has served as the capital of the country. Today, nearly 1/3 of the population of Peru lives in ...
People of Bahuaja
This is a top pick! So take an Irishman, an Australian, a Scot or two, a bunch of Poms and a couple of Peruvians for good measure, and throw them together into a jungle, then stand back and watch the entertainment. For more action add a Saturday night and alcohol, and ...
Cuzco
This is a top pick! Day 303 - 305 - Cuzco Cuzco, the Incan capital, is undoubtedly a pretty city with cobbled streets and dozens of examples of the stone work architecture that is the Incan trademark. I can't get out my mind though, how reminiscent it is of York or ...
Day One of the Inca Trail
This is a top pick! Day 306 - Day One of the Inca Trail Small by Inca Trail standards, our group for the next four days consists of seven people, three English couples and an Australian student. Before we began we were introduced to not just each other but the SAS (the ...
Day Two of the Inca Trail
This is a top pick! Day 307 - Day Two of the Inca Trail Today the 'fun' really began! I hadn't envisaged the Inca Trail to be a piece of cake and any ideas derived from yesterday concerning that theory being inaccurate were soon put in their place. We trekked separately ...
I'm still here
This is a top pick! ... I got one of the other ones who overcharged me by about 90 Sols (the ride should have cost 8 Sols). From first impressions, Lima is a fairly grotty city, sometimes dangerous and doesn't have too much to offer the traveller (at least compared with the ...
Night One - Lima, Peru
This is a top pick! ... , that I have been communicating with over email that lives here in Lima came to pick me up and show me the city. Lima has many faces! MiraFlores and the Barranca areas are beautiful. They drove me all over the city, stopping at important sites. I ...
Peru
This is a top pick! ... in a cosmopolitan cafe drinking cappuccinos! LIMA to IQUITOS: Up at 5am!!! To catch a 7am flight from Lima to Iquitos. This took us back up to North Peru and into Amazon land. IQUITOS to THE AMAZON: After our flight we jumped onto a tiny little ...
Back to Lima
This is a top pick! ... 3 locals who didn't speak any English at 8:30am that morning) so I managed to sleep comfortably most of the way. We arrived back in Lima the next morning and made our way to the meeting hotel for the first day of our 2 week tour which would take us to ...
Nazca Lines
This is a top pick! ... cuisine, was unpleasant. I know I'm mopaning about food a lot but if a way to a man's heart is through his stomach then Peru is doing little to entice me. Fortunately no-one lied to us about our overnight bus to Nazca and we got the tickets we had ...
Day Three of the Inca Trail
This is a top pick! Day 308 - Day Three of the Inca Trail After yesterday's Herculean efforts (OK, a touch of hyperbole there) we thought it was downhill from now on. While literally this was true (barring an initial ascent), metaphorically speaking this was not the ...
Fly By
This is a top pick! Arrived in late from Rapa Nui and heading out early in the morning, so a quick nap in a hostel near the airport and we were away again to meet Julie in Cali, Columbia! - JJ ...
Nazca - Ica - Lima
This is a top pick! Day 317 - 318 - Nazca - Ica - Lima With our time in Peru rapidly evaporating, the pace required upping and so we left Nazca for Ica. Our chosen method of transportation was a shared taxi. We´d envisaged sharing with other travellers but as it turned ...
Peruvian Food....
This is a top pick! As everyone knows, I love to eat, and Peru has a lot to offer! Last night Joanna and Clara took me to a gourmet Peruvian dinner that was amazing. There is alot of variety in their food. We ordered 3 different dishes, all topped flavorful mashed potatos ...
Aguas Calientes - Cuzco
This is a top pick! Day 310 - 311 - Aguas Calientes - Cuzco On reflection, while I still maintain a slight air of disappointment in Machu Picchu, the whole excursion was an immensely enjoyable and rewarding experience. To walk to somewhere for four days requires the ...
Whistle stop express
This is a top pick! ... bus and we stopped and handed it to a group of men who ran towards the bus. After another two hours we came into Lima, the capital of Peru and one big, smoggy, overcrowded city. I'd love to tell you of all the wonderful sights we saw and the fabulous ...
Brief stop in Lima on our way north
This is a top pick! ... Cola won in the popularity stakes against Coca Cola in Peru and so Coca Cola bought it, which is a shame but I definitely prefer it to Coke. The next day we take it easy in Lima before getting on a 18 hour bus to Mancora, Peru’s beach ...
Copacabana - Puno - Cuzco
This is a top pick! ... , but also immensely rewarding and I know it will rank near the top of the ocuntries we've visited. First impressions of Peru suggest a much lower ranking with our journey into the country rivalling the worst we've experienced. The Bolivian side of the ...
Day Four of the Inca Trail
This is a top pick! Day 309 - Day Four (Last Day) of the Inca Trail The two hours of what from the cross ection appeared to be flat walking, turned out to be a nausea-inducing undulating track made infinitely worse by my hangover and inflexible legs. The initial part was ...
Preparing for Dave...
This is a top pick! ... life changing drugs! We were kind of hoping that the monkey might take a fancy to his ears!!!! We eventually arrived in Lima abit later than we'd envisaged and jumped warily into a cab (all the guide books get you super paranoid about taxi drivers in ...
Mad Max...Beyond Thunderdome
This is a top pick! ... more beautiful. The southern constellations were clearly visible; I haven't seen stars like these since Australia in '96. We arrived in Lima just after sunrise. After searching through the Lonely Planet we took a taxi to the "Centro", and checked in to ...
Lima -- Ciudad de los Reyes
This is a top pick! ... . Most traveller's headed for Cusco and the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu barely set foot on this desert oasis. However, historically speaking, Lima is the "Ciudad de los Reyes" -- City of Kings. Founded by Francisco Pizarro, Lima is the Capital of New Spain ...
Daaaaave arrives.......wooohooooo!
This is a top pick! ... , chat, breakfast, chat, chat, another taxi, talk, talk, laugh and we got on with the serious task of speed sightseeing in central Lima as we needed to head back to the infamous sports bar at midday to catch the replay of the Lions test! Everyone we'd met ...
Lima: The Last Stop!
... York -- 8 million people! It has over 1/3 the country´s entire population. And I´ve only seen one little neighborhood of Lima. Anyway, my detour was to a very interesting site just a few blocks from my hostal. It is called Huaca ...
Stage 4- Peru
An 8 hour flight took me from LA to Lima arriving in Peru at midnight. I had been pre warned by a fellow traveller on my Trek America trip that Peru was dangerous at night for lone female travellers and this was echoed by the local Peruvian who was sat ...
One night in Lima
... a sleep on a grassy knoll outside of the GTA airport and a last Canadian meal at Swiss Chalet we were off to Lima. We arrived shortly after midnight local time. I thought that I was going to be a pretty big deal having a ...
Travels in Peru
... odd oasis towns that are situated on this stretch. We thought our concerns regarding the suicidal driving tendencies were left behind in Lima. However, how wrong we were as the the driver appeared fearless. He overtook lines of traffic whilst traffic was ...