Country Info
- Lima
- Capital
- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
- Currency
- 27,483,864
- Population
- PE
- Country Code
Lima Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lima, Peru
En route to Quito, Ecuador
... to get back to Lima though... went on a city tour yesterday, and found the nice bits... AND saw the PM of Peru! Result! Quite a pretty city, Lima. Who knew? Anyhoo, I´m now sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to Quito, Ecuador... I´ll be ...
I'm here and I'm going non-stop!!!
... to have a coffee while the others finished the tour...Next stop Pachacamac, an archaeological cite 45 minutes from central Lima. This site had been a ceremonial center for 1000 years before the expansion of the Inca Empire. Most of the buildings ...
The question you´ve all been waiting for...
... of 6 hours? In a word "YES". Peru is AMAZING! My first experience of Peru was in Lima, in our taxi from the airport... a traditional taxi with the obligatory lack of seat belts... (I feared for my life, I ...
Adventures at Colca Canyon
We had another day in Cusco after the inca trail, to recover and pootle about...I didn´t do much, just shopped a bit and had a relax, and in the evening we wentto this amazing aussie restraurant which did the nicest food. We had to be up at 5.30 the ...
Lima - ultima stop
... we af met Danique -een meisje van Holland die we in Cusco leren kennen hadden-. Samen bezochten we de Chinese wijk van Lima, genoten we van lekkere maaltijden, brachten we een bezoekje aan een van de plaatstelijke cinema's en gingen we met een busje naar ...
Thumbs up for Lima
... all the other colonial cities we have visited so far. The buildings were much larger, grander and more imposing, I guess because of Lima's importance and wealth as part of the Spanish Empire. The centre and the area around it had been very nicely restored ...
Day 24
... it all if we are bumped off) 3. Paint lines in the road are a waste of tax payers money here. 4. When flying on a trip to Peru make sure you take something to knock yourself out, spurts of sleep just dont add up well. 5. Gin and Tonic come in separate ...
Northbound and Down
... that I have no more friends coming down here to see me. The first month, I had Jon. The second, the Atlanta crew in Peru and Jess in Chile. I traveled through Bolivia by myself and loved being alone. Maybe I just miss home and my ¨normal¨ ...
Divinos and La Punta
... us about 15 minutes. We didnt get home until around 7:15, as we some how managed to get on the wrong bus at peak time in Lima. We drove for an hour in the opposite direction in a mini bus, which was so cramped no one could move at all. I couldn't have ...
Fianlly in Lima
Yay! I made it. After an uneventful flight from Miami I finally arrived in Lima. Oh my God it´s soooo hot here.I love it. I ´ve just popped inside for a few minutes before I get heat exhaustion. Customs was no problem to get through and it was really ...
le depart...
ca y est, nous sommes arrives apres nos 24 h de voyage : apres une attente de 4h a lyon (histoire de ne pas etre en retard), premier vol avec coucher de soleil dun cote et orage et eclair de lautre (horreur pour peps et ju, jeremy tout heureux de son ...
Lima, the cloudy city
... palaces for one square. It is also the birthplace of the city Lima as it is the exact location where Francisco Pizarro founded Lima on January 18, 1535. So we sauntered around there for a while, taking some photos before finding a nice wee restaurant that ...
Why Plan?
Like the best of plans, our plan for getting from Puerto Maldonado, deep in the Peruvian jungle closer to Bolivia then Lima, to the beach town of Mancora, way north near the border with Ecuador, was pretty simple. We were going to fly to Lima and ...
We got the tile!
... finally found vinyl tiles that will work. Halleujiah!! Much thanks to Cesar, who took us to Palao, the tile center of Lima. And that was pretty much our day, shopping for tile for about 6 hours... Joy! But it was well worth it.. We ...
Downtown Lima
... just this guys car. We started to worry - the minder guy looked pretty dodgy just to add to our concerns. Driving through the streets of Lima at night was pretty hair raising, lots of weaving in and out - we saw lots of beat up cars that night. We did ...
Amazonia
Dupa cum va spuneam aseara Amazonia a fost de departe highlight-ul excursiei de pana acum. E asa o lume, incredibil, cel mai fascinant si diferit loc in care am fost eu vreodata. Deja dupa juma de ora de la decolarea din Bogota, odata trecuti Anzii, ...
Sunday afternoon in the park.
... he invited me to tag along with him as he made the rounds at market for crafts and souvenirs. Len Rego has been in Peru for over thirty years has been the driving force and leader in uniting groups in order that the workers would be fairly represented ...
Phew... A capital goes smoothly
... but it appears not, so may have to make it short and sweet... I was a bit worried when I arrived into the airport in Lima. I soon found out that they have an unusual and kind of unnerving customs system in place - before you can leave everybody has to ...
Day 1
... and egg whites and it´s very refreshing and delicious! Kind of like a margarita. Leigh and Steve tried the dish that Peru is known for - ceviche, which is raw fish marinated in lemon juice, onion and hot peppers. They said it was ...
Day 2
... about pictures... they will be coming in a few days. Continuing from the last entry, our third day was spent in the centre of Lima. We ventured in via taxi, which turned out to be a hair-raising, white-knuckle ride. It´s pretty much ...
dirty and big
That's what I can say about my first impression of Lima. When we drove through the outskirts of Lima the houses were all grey due to the pollution. Well, I guess with a population of over 9 million there are many cars and buses driving around and of ...
Arrival in Lima - the round about cab ride/rip-off
... ... Its definitely different, but in an cool, "I'm just a casual observer until I die in a car wreck" kind-of-way. (Lima Coastline) Anyway, it turns out that Lima is organized into seven districts (something I didn't know until arriving--guess I ...
Retour a Lima
Je me leve vers 9h en pensant retrouver Calixte et Lucie mais ils ne sont pas la. Ils ont du decider de rester un jour de plus. Je ne fais pas grand chose de ma journee. Je rattrape le retard du blog, fais developper les photos (je suis un peu decu) et ...
Lima - Peru
Landed in The capital of Peru, Lima and saw the Pacific for the first time on a mental taxi ride from the airport to the city. Didnt like Lima too much, crazy, manic and dirty... And thats jsut the streets! Had a good night out there though. Next stop the ...
Trip Down the Pacific Coast and visit to Chincha A
... X 8' abodes crawling all the way up the side of the mountain. Some are made of mud bricks others of cement blocks. The population of Peru, I am told is nine million, and that in itself must be one of the reasons why people are forced to live this way. It ...
Just arrived - Lima Central
... I was driven virtually past your doorsteps (did big wave to Fudgelovers at Oval), 15 hours later, and I'm sitting in the Sheraton in Lima, having just paid London prices for a bowl of spaghetti and my first Peruvian beer, and listening to the ham-fisted ...
Long haul
The long haul flight to Lima was not as bad as we thought it might be after our failed attempt to gain a free upgrade as newlyweds. However, the same could not be said of the in flight entertainment....thank god for books and ipods! The food was also ...
