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Peru's capital and its largest city, Lima dates back to 1535 when it was founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. Owing to its prominent colonial history, it is home to a good selection of old churches, cloisters and monasteries for visitors' enjoyment.
From the Lima Travel Guide
Average cheapest prices by month.
small and cozy guesthouse with very friendly staff, and clean. we strongly recommend to stop in this hostel if you find yourself in lima :-) ... more
This hotel is really new one(it has taken only for 3months since open when I stayed here).it means everything is new.they are very friendly and kindness.they can speak English also.so I didn't need to worry about everything.when I arrived at the airport,it was already dark.but they ed one of the official taxi to pick me up to this hotel. ... more
It was nice, close to everything in Miraflores. The staff was nice. ... more
Lima to Santiago
I'm planning to fly to Lima on 21st October 2010 and and fly out from Santiago on 16th November. Does anyone have any advice on the best way to do this. Do I have enough time to do it or do you think I need more. We were planning to spend 3 days in Lima as its a firends birthday but apart from ...
Accommodation in Lima
Hey guys, Can I get some places you can recommend in Lima please? We will only be there 3 nights, before catching a connection. Cheers, Camo. ...
Lima to Cusco.
Hey Marc! Most people do it by bus here. The journey from Lima to Cuzco is about 10 hours I think, maybe more. I went to Nazca first, but two Irish girls I am with took the bus directly from Lima - they found the journey hard because they got quite sick with the altitude. I flew to Cuzco from Arequipa ...
LIMA!!!!
Lima... oh Lima... how well we know Lima, after spending yet another day here. It was hot and polluted and overcrowed.... and beautiful.... now that we are staying like right near the Plaza de Armas, everything is colonial and awesome and we pretty much spent a lot of the day just watching life go bye. we ...
Posted in Here and There by CanadaKid
Lima
We arrived in lima at 5pm and our flight left at 9pm so it gave us a few hours to kill! We headed for one of the main squares and a football themed bar, with life size models of famous football stars! So we sat down and had a few drinks with Maradona and Ronaldinho. Em was rather taken by Maradona ...
Posted in No work for 6 months! by robandem
Lima
Everybody told me that Lima was not very nice and I only need to spend 1 day there. So I followed the advice and stopped in Lima for 1 1/2 days. It is true that there is not much to see and you can visit the most important sights in 1-2 days, but I do not understand why people do not like Lima. I found ...
Posted in A Luxembourger with a backpack by sarahm_lux