Coming to a foreign country is always an exciting experience. Visiting Peru is no exception. So many new impressions might overwhelm you easily and you could get distracted when it comes to a boring, but important issue like money.

Most probably you don’t know how the Peruvian currency (Nuevo Sol) looks like, before actual being in Peru. Therefore we highly recommend reading our information about the money you will be using during your visit and how things related to money are handled in Peru.

Take your time to read through our selection of pages. We tried to give you good general information about the Peruvian currency, familiarize you to the notes and coins including all important security features, tell you how to behave when handling money and make you aware of what to keep in mind when paying or changing money. We will give you some examples of common tricks and explain how people try to rip you off. More useful basic information about changing money, exchange offices, credit cards, money transfers, banks and the unfortunate presence of beggars can be found under the correlating topics.