City Tours in Lima
Sightseeing, Excursions, Day Tours and Packages...
Finding your way through Lima’s city jungle and discovering the numerous scattered attractions the capital of Peru has to offer, can be quite difficult and you might miss a vital part of Lima’s charisma. A nice way of discovering the charm of Lima is to make the good old city tour with one of the tour operators offering visits to the city center, the different districts and the surroundings of Lima...
The Districts in Metropolitan Lima  Detailed description of the districts in Lima...
Today Lima forms the region ‘Lima Metropolitana‘. It is divided into 43 districts (distritos). Thirty of these districts belong to the city of Lima and unbelievable but true, each of these neighborhoods has its own flair, charm and character. Miraflores for example is the place for tourists, visitors, foreign expats and locals (who can afford it) to find accommodation, go shopping, have a good meal, relax in a nice café, party...
Lima, Peru
A journey through past and present...
Lima today is no longer the wealthy, beautiful colonial settlement and most important city in the Americas like it used to be during colonial times. The once lovely capital of independent Peru with nice haciendas, fishing villages and lots of green surrounding it, has made place to today's Lima with its over 8 million inhabitants, shantytowns, sometimes tatty facades and noisy traffic. Lima is one of the most interesting cities in South America with a huge archaeological, historical and cultural past...
Huacas
The Adobe Pyramids in Lima...
In ancient Peru, a ‘huaca’ or ‘wak’a’ (Quecha meaning for sacred) is an object that represents something revered, typically a monument of some kind. Some huacas (shape of a pyramid made with Adobe bricks) have been built especially for worshiping and rituals, others
for administrative purposes....
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Museums in Lima
Lima offers an incredible number of museums which reflect the charm and the complexity of the Peruvian culture.
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The History of Lima
Limas history doesn’t only start with the foundation of the colonial city by Francisco Pizarro in 1535...
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Historical Buildings in Lima
Today the core of colonial Lima still exists, but relatively few original colonial mansions are still standing...
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Peruvian Money (Overview)
Most probably you don’t know how the Peruvian currency (Nuevo Sol) looks like, before actual being in Peru...
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If you need Help in Lima...
Experiencing any type of emergency while visiting a foreign country can be quite stressful. No need to panic...
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Social Projects & Volunteering in Lima
Overview and Listing of recomended Social Projects in Lima
Giving a coin or two to beggars on the street might not be considered wrong, but please do us a favor and read our topic on Begging in Lima before you do so. Anyhow you might say it’s only a drop in the bucket and you’re right. If you really want to help, we would like to recommend supporting one of the social projects or charities in Lima (Peru); either with cash and physical donations or with your voluntary work. According to official studies around 20% of Limas population lives in poverty. That’s more than 1.6 million people. Looking behind the nicely maintained better suburbs or at the slums
surrounding Lima...
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