Peruvian Adventure -Lima

Any tour to Peru starts in the capitol city of Lima. A city built by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro on the banks of the Rimac River along the Pacific coast. Lima is a sprawling, dusty city of Spanish style architecture. It holds an abundance of churches, cathedrals. Lima has brilliant sunshine from December to May, when humidity goes up to 70 percent. The year-round temperature is characterized by a spring-like mildness. Taxi's average $2 soles a ride ( sole= 3.60 for $1.00 $US 12/2002). The average fare from the airport into Lima is $15.00

Bed & Breakfast Lima, Peru
Alfredo Salazar 345, Miraflores, Lima 18, PERU
FAX/Phone: 51-1-422 7724

Inkawasi Guest House is located in the residential area of Miraflores, a very secure neighborhood, within three blocks of two large supermarkets, shops, restaurants, banks, cinemas, a Blockbuster Video store, churches and medical facilities, as well as interesting historic sites and museums. Proprietor Sita Cash knows great places and things to do while in Lima.

Listed below are some good places to visit while in Lima. Be careful in the city center at night, many thieves survive on the tourist trade !!!

The Museo Nacional de Antropologica y Arqueologica
This museum houses the nation's most extensive collection of pre-Columbian artifacts, and the museum maintains an outstanding international reputation for its curatorial and presentational accomplishment. Ceramics, granite obelisks, and textiles of the various pre-Columbian cultures--including the Nazca--are displayed here, offering visitors an unmatched introduction to the great civilizations that flourished in Peru thousands of years ago.

Historical Center
Historical attractions abound in Lima. There is the City Center, with its
impressive colonial architecture; the Main Square, the Cathedral, the Government Palace, the Municipal Theater, the "Desamparados" Train Station and the old streets with their vice royal mansions and moorish-style balconies.

The Museo de Oro
The "Gold Museum" is private museum, wholly devoted to displaying the legendary treasures of Peru's ancient, pre-Columbian civilizations. Its collection includes pieces from the fabulous golden treasure of the Incas.

The Indio Market (Mercado Indio)
Located between 6th and 10th on Avenida La Marina, this colorful market specializes in crafts. Shoppers can bargain for fine woolen clothing, carved wood, tooled leather cushions, stools, silver jewelry, and other curios.

Parque Las Leyendas
At this zoo designed to showcase Peruvian wildlife, visitors can discover the flora and fauna of Peru's three distinct habitats: the Costa (the coast), the Sierra, and the Selva (jungle).

The Church of San Francisco
One of the most remarkable of Spanish colonial buildings. Its extraordinary, intricately geometric decoration is one of the few examples in the Americas of the mudejar, or Andalusian Moorish, design. The adjoining monastery's immense collection of antique books, and the vast catacombs beneath the church's grounds, discovered in 1951, are most impressive.

Petit Thouars Handicraft Market
Textiles, handmade wool sweaters, ceramics, silver and gold jewelry, bamboo quenas, traditional outfits, alpaca carpets are be bought and admired here. It is located in Miraflores, on Petit Thouars Avenue.

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Bullfighting
Bullfighting in Lima is Spanish-style, meaning that the bull is killed in the end. The arena at the Plaza de Ancho in Rimac, the oldest in the Americas, serves as the stage for this unforgettable spectacle, which takes place during the brief bullfighting season in late October and November. I couldn't go to the Bullfight, but enjoy it if you like.........