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- Lima
- Capital
- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
- Currency
- 27,483,864
- Population
- PE
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Lima Slideshow
Lima
Travel Blogs from Lima, Peru
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 ...
Brief stop in Lima on our way north
... 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 ...
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 ...
The City of Kings - Lima
... am I the only one still in a tshirt? The window I'm sat next to is covered in condensation! We are entering the outskirts of Lima, Los Olivos to be precise. Even though it's only 6am, there are packed buses on the road, packed collectivos, businesses are ...
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 ...
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 ...
Paragliding
This is a top pick! ... swept us away. We sailed through the clear blue sky and I was in awe at how peaceful it was. Looking down over the Lima coastline and over the huge city sprawl boasting patches of green. I heard some beep beep beeping in my ear and looked back to ...
Hola Mi Amigo
This is a top pick! ... parade of burnt backpackers around the hostel had I not used my common sense and limited my exposure. One thing I didn't enjoy about Lima was the way that people say things then don't follow through. This seems to be quite common. I discussed it with ...
Hola South America
This is a top pick! Just wanted to drop a quick note that I got here ok. All those warnings about the Lima airport were unneccessary. It went as smooth as butter. I was pleasantly surprised with LanChile as well beucause I have heard that they are a weak link. The flight ...
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 ...
Back to the City Again
This is a top pick! ... masking it for now. How I Got Here: Flying Dog Hostel to Iquitos Airport - Mototaxi - 8 Soles ($2.50) - 25 minutes Iquitos to Lima - StarPeru Airlines - $92 - 3 hours Lima Airport to Flying Dog Hostel - Registered Taxi - 50 Soles ($17) - 45 minutes ...
Dirt piles
This is a top pick! So I told you I was going paragliding but the wind was not up so a small group of us hopped in a cab and went to the ruins instead. As we walked up on it, I thought it was just a giant dirt pile until I noticed the tiny bricklike make up. Kinda like a ...
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 ...
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
This is a top pick! ... visiting a bubble. Miraflores exists in a galaxy far far away from the mostly poor urban areas of Lima, and I'd never know just across town people in shacks worry about where their next meal comes from as I walk ...
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 ...