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LIMA is a boisterous, macho city, relaxed and laid-back, yet having an underlying energy, with money and expensive cars ruling the roost you can buy anything in Lima if you have the cash, ... Read more...
Without a doubt, the beauty and majesty of Cusco are unique. You only have to walk through its streets, to observe the lavish colonial-era houses and exquisite monuments, and you are transported back ... Read more...
An active city, some 2400m above sea level, and with a relatively wealthy population of over three-quarters of a million, AREQUIPA maintains a rather aloof attitude toward the rest of Peru. Most ... Read more...
Barranco The well-known district of Barranco is known for its leisurely strolls, bars and bohemia. Located, along the Chorrillos , at the southern tip of Lima Bay along the shoreline and the Avenida ... Read more...
The Cusco Valley and the Incas are synonymous in most people’s minds, but the area was populated well before they arrived on the scene and they simply built their empire on the toil and ... Read more...
An attractive old but busy city with around 170,000 inhabitants, ICA is famous throughout Peru for its wine and pisco production. Its very foundation (in 1563) went hand in hand with the introduction ... Read more...
Pizarro, on his second voyage to Peru in 1528, sailed by the site of ancient Chan Chan, then still a major city and an important regional centre of Inca rule. He returned to establish a Spanish ... Read more...
IQUITOS began life in 1739 when Jesuit José Bahamonde established settlements at Santa Barbara de Nanay and Santa Maria de Iquitos on the Río Mazán. It was a particularly daunting ... Read more...
URUBAMBA , about 80km from Cusco via Pisac or around 60km via Chinchero, is only a short way down the main road from Yucay’s Plaza Manco II, and here the Río Vilcanota becomes the Río ... Read more...
Less than a century ago, HUARAZ some 400km from Lima was still a fairly isolated community, barricaded to the east by the dazzling snowcapped peaks of the Cordillera Blanca and ... Read more...