Country Info
- Lima
- Capital
- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
- Currency
- 27,483,864
- Population
- PE
- Country Code
Peru Slideshow
Top Hotels in Peru
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Hotel Balsa Puno
38 reviews -
La Plazuela Arequipa
5 reviews -
DUO Hotel Boutique Lima
81 reviews -
Plaza de Armas Cusco Hotel
18 reviews
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Hosteria El Sauce Arequipa
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La Reyna Arequipa
11 reviews
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Hotel Carlos V Cusco
11 reviews -
Hotel Wiracocha Cusco
8 reviews
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Samay Hotel Cusco
36 reviews
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Hotel Maranon Iquitos
20 reviews
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Casabarco Hostal Punta Hermosa Lima
8 reviews
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Grand Hotel Betsy Lima
4 reviews
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Hotel Las Palmas Lima
24 reviews
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Suites Plaza Las Flores Lima
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Hotel Pakaritampu Ollantaytambo
165 reviews
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Sol & Luna Lodge & Spa Urubamba
283 reviews
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Las Musas Hotel & Casino Chiclayo
7 reviews -
Samana Wasi Puno
1 review
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Hotel El Gran Marques Trujillo
11 reviews
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Inti Punku Macchu Picchu Hotel Aguas Calientes
37 reviews
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La Joya Hotel Huaraz
4 reviews
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Cantayo Spa & Resort Hotel Nasca
23 reviews
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Manu Paradise Lodge Manu National Park
2 reviews
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Huanchaco International Hotel
6 reviews
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Vichayito Bungalows y Carpas de Playa Mancora
57 reviews
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Killawasi Lodge Yanque
110 reviews -
Hotel Asturias Arequipa
29 reviews
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Las Mercedes Hostal Arequipa
7 reviews
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Posada Del Condor Arequipa
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Hotel Amerindia Cusco
13 reviews
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Hotel Golden Star Iquitos
1 review
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Hotel Soul Mate Inn Lima
45 reviews
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Hotel Larco 656 Lima
10 reviews
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Las Americas Apart Hotel Lima
27 reviews
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Hotel Vila Santa Miraflores Lima
21 reviews
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Sauce Hostal Ollantaytambo
75 reviews
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Inti Hotel Chiclayo
22 reviews
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Mosoq Inn Puno
196 reviews
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Saint Germain Hotel Trujillo
4 reviews
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Royal Inti Inn Aguas Calientes
15 reviews
Peru
Travel Blogs from Peru
Flight of the Condor
This is a top pick! After a few days chilling out in the gorgeous town of Arequipa we decided to get on with the show and go to the Colca Canyon. The Colca Canyon is the second deepest in the world, thought to be twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the USA and the home ...
Inca Trail Day 2 - Below us only Clouds
This is a top pick! We were woken up by the porters at 5.30am with tea and warm water and towels. It was dry this morning so we took our time getting ready – packing our bags up for the porters and eating breakfast (I think we were trying to put off the ...
Salkantay Trek!
This is a top pick! So before i start to tell you about the trek, i have to say it was one of the most challenging yet rewarding things i have ever done! But im glad to have done it and would recommend it to anyone. I would also like to thank Andy "Travel Guru" Rye ...
Leaving Peru
This is a top pick! ... of the Inca civilisations in Cusco and Machu Picchu and hiked in the mountains of the Cordillera Blanca, Huarez. There are similarities between Peru and Bolivia, but overall I prefer Peru. It is slighly more expensive but the locals I met were warmer and ...
Last Day in Puno
This is a top pick! ... and Bev was kind of enough to treat me to an extravagant dinner at a restaurant that accepted credit cards. There are only 4 places in Peru that take plastic, so it's a big deal. I had a four course meal and Bev had a nice soup and Lasagna, the whole ...
Interview with a Random Peruvian Street Merchant
This is a top pick! ... : Nooo.. Ecuador people like monkey (furiously starts scratching his head and under his arms). Steve: Like monkey? RPSM: Peru people no like Ecuador people, Colombia es coo, but no Peru. Muchu guerra weeth Peru (vibrates as he shoots ...
Acclimatising again
This is a top pick! Arrived here about 6am this morning ready to embark on reacclimatise again having sacrificed our height going to Lima. Town is pretty small and not a lot to see but the views are stupendous of the mountains around covered in snow. We eventually found ...
From Clowns to Breakdowns
This is a top pick! ... confined to bed and small walks around the town in my pyjamas. The following day we took another bus across the border and into Peru and stopped off over night in the town of Puno before taking another bus up to Cuzco the following day. We decided to ...
End of first week
This is a top pick! Day 7 Thursday 16th Sept San Juan Clinica again this morning. As the Swiss voluneer was in with the younger children thought I might as well help out in another class. He asked around and I was sent to a class of young teenagers. I was there ...
Into the Amazon again
This is a top pick! ... the Cloud forest, home to many beautiful orchids, as well as the strange looking red Cock of the Rock, the national bird of Peru. The next day we descended further into the rainforest, passing several villages on the way. We stopped at one village to buy ...
Itīs on the old side...
This is a top pick! ... cultivate more types of veggies, corn and potatoes than we could dream of. Many of the veggies we know and love originated in Peru! The Spaniards had no clue how to farm highlands and destroyed all of this. The Inca's didn`t even know about the wheel but ...
Salkantay trek: The march to Machu Picchu -
This is a top pick! ... dinner were 3 courses of absolutely gourmet food every single day; fresh soup, various posh roulades, every kind of potato imaginable (Peru has about 200 types of potato!), veggies stuffed with all sorts of things, tender meat with all sorts of sauces ...
Lots of Inca ruins
This is a top pick! Okay first of all, I should answer Molly's urgent question about the guide who was attacked by the bull: he was fine; no blood, no broken bones, only a little pain in his back--or so he claimed. He even got up and threw a rock at the bull after it had ...
Cloud touching: a lesson in high altitude living
This is a top pick! ... were jam packed with old yellow taxis beeping every few seconds, noise, dirt and beggars. The first thing we noticed about Peru was the drop in standards of living from Ecuador, but simultaneously we were quite overwhelmed by the genuine kindness of the ...
Cocha Canyon Trek - Day 105-107
This is a top pick! Day 105 - 21/04/09 Cocha Canyon Trek - Day 1 A crazy 3.30am start this morning, I was picked up from my hostel in the darkness with several other rather tired and disheveled backpackers for the 6 hour drive to the small town of Cabanaconde, which is ...
100,000km and still travelling...
This is a top pick! ... read for a while as we watched other flights come and go and then it was time to board ourselves. We were flying Star Peru today and the flight was very uneventful except for the ham and cheese sandwich and petit fours that we were served. Oh ...
Rock of the Puma
This is a top pick! ... at 281 m * 25 rivers, mostly from Peru, flow into the lake and a small outlet leaves the lake at Desaguadero on the Bolivia-Peru border, which is only 5% of the inflow with the rest lost in evaporation. * The lake is the remnant of a vast area of ...
Leaving Machu Picchu
This is a top pick! So we spent an amazing two days at Machu Picchu. Our train left back to Cusco at 4 p.m., so we just spent the day wandering around Aguas Calientes and feeling sorry for ourselves. It was really tough leaving this place. I know that I may return one ...
The Inca Trail and Machu Picchu
This is a top pick! ... the coca leaves to help with altitude sickness. Coca leaves are illegal in most countries apart from The Andes Region including Peru, Bolivia, Columbia, Venezuela and Ecuador, and our little stash will be confiscated if we don't use them up before ...
Macchu Picchu, Lost city of the Incas
This is a top pick! Iīve wanted to visit Macchu Picchu for a long time, ever since I was about 8 and did a school project on it. I was half expecting to be disapointed, for Macchu Picchu to have lost itīs charm by becoming too famous and having too many tourists, but this ...
umbilical snacks
This is a top pick! We left Nazca and took an overnight bus to Arequipa. In Arequipa our taxi crashed. Everyone in Peru drives like a nutter. Kat always remarks it's a wonder they never seem to crash, I reply I think they do we just never see it. Our time had come. In the ...
Carrying drunks, sandboarding & smelly islands
This is a top pick! ... it’s only visual. They have a great double smell act happening. Bird droppings on the islands (fertilizer used to be Peru’s main export) and fish canneries close by combine to sting the nostrils. We jumped on a boat and cruised around taking ...
Aliens from outer space
This is a top pick! One of the theories put forward for the mysterious lines in the desert near the city of Nazca, in Peru, is that they are beacons and landing strips for alien space craft. Theories like this certainly whet my appetite to see the famous Nazca lines, but I ...
Our Sand Dune Adventure
This is a top pick! ... that features on the back of Peru's S/50 note. Graceful palm trees, bright flowers and some attractive antique buildings make this Peru's bygone glamour resort. Here we relaxed for 4 days in the never ending sun and sand dunes. The main reason travellers ...
The Shaman in the Amazon! - Day 93
This is a top pick! We took numerous forms of transport to reach the small village on the Yaraba river where I'll be staying tonight. Buses, tuk-tuk's and a boat were required to reach this small tributary of the Amazon. We left Iquitos for the forest at 7am. In total it ...
A luxurious day in Lima
This is a top pick! ... the sewer network – note to self do not stand down wind of it again! We were then taken to the main post office in Peru (which was a huge and impressive building) where all mail ends up at some stage – and Renato bought us a postcard of Machu ...
Lares Trek Day 3
This is a top pick! Today we trek from Patakancha down the gorge to Ollantaytambo. I woke up around 6 am and had some upset stomach, so my guide gave me some tea to drink to help out. The second night of camping went well since I am getting more used to it and the ...
following the scent of salt...
This is a top pick! 1/14 There's been a "rumba" and the railroad tracks are blocked by rocks....we're forced to leave a day later than we intended, but at 5 AM, way earlier in the day than I ever intend to go anywhere. But that's OK because we plan to ...
A canyon, a condor, a convent
This is a top pick! ... down to the beautiful Plaza de Armas and on to the Museum Santuarios Andinos. Arequipa is the commercial capital of southern Peru, but despite its size itīs a charming place in a stunning setting. Fine colonial buildings built of sillar, a light ...