Hotel Maury Lima

... makde it easier. Lima is the capital of Peru and has a population of 11 million people. Our accommodation is in the historic area - Hotel Maury so we walked to the Main Square Plaza de Armas and found a restaurant for dinner. It was Pando´s - a lot ...

... locked!  The shopkeeper got a key and let us out.  A few blocks walking brought us to elegant but dusty old Hotel Maury, where we ordered pisco sours with lunch, a reward for having avoided alcohol for so long at high altitude.  Under the ...

... only to sit in a locked van in the car park for the next hour whilst he went to look for the other passenger. Got to the hotel at 1:30 am to find a wedding pumping out Spanglish hits till 3am but hey I'm here! Met the tour guide in the morning and my ...

So today has been day 1 in Lima, we woke early after an early night.. breakfast was a surprise with fresh orange juice (no bits emms was made up). the weather has been dry, overcast and a little cool.. jerseys required.. We found ourselves in mass this ...

... . The place rocks. Very vibrant, busy, ratrace, like being dropped in a beehive theat got shaken, bit frantic but interesting. Our hotel is a 100 odd years old and very elegant, chandeliers etc and last night we drank in a bar where Ernest Hemingway used ...

First day in Lima, and quite relieved to find the hotel (Maury) serves breakfast. great sleep after sixteen hours flying...definately business class is worth it.  Speed of going through airports, and good service- yeah, great.  Sat with ...

... Rio di Janeiro, where my odessey will end! So I caught a plane from Santiago up to the capital of Peru, Lima, and headed for the Hotel Maury and joined up with my tour group. Everyone was Australian, apart from one guy Alistair, who was an englishman ...

... Lima.  On the tour we visited the cathedral of San Francisco where we were spooked by bones in the catacombs and by pigeons in the square! The next morning we hit off (a little worse for wear) with our backpacks to meet our tour group in hotel ...

Hey everyone! Despite my disappointment over not getting a personal movie screen on my flight, I have arrived safely and managed to get through a large chuck of Scar Tissue. Before I contine I just want to put a disclaimer on this and say that I ...

... my fingers crossed that i wasn't gonna have a Bates Motel moment... The following day, i checked into the hotel where my tour starts. I decided to tour lima plaza de armas, which was actually pretty similar to the arequipa one. It's beautiful, but not ...

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 ...

After a comfortable night in the faded 1920's grandeur of the Hotel Maury, Lima we took a flight to Arequipa and arrived around lunchtime. Our hotel was really lovely - very traditional and rustic with a swimming pool, fountain, gorgeous gardens with ...

... work that took place at Bar Morris, many of the more elegant hotels in Lima of that era started to imitate the drink, including Hotel Maury and the exclusive Hotel Bolivar on Plaza San Martin, which remains today the most famous place in Lima to sup on a ...

... of legroom, reclining seats with foot rests, films and food - it was better than the flight from Heathrow to Lima!  And when we got there we were even more ecstatic to find a hairdryer, shampoo and conditioner in the hotel bathroom - sheer luxury! ...