Lima Travel Blog

Chorrillos, Lima, Perú. (Photo: M. Isabel Guerra). Different and exciting mean both “not boring”. And if you need some additional help to make your visit to Lima even more interesting, here’s some tips. 1)    Try a good pisco sour. Everyone, even your Peruvian friends, will claim...

Paragliding in Miraflores parks. (Photo: Parques de Miraflores blog) ¿Ever thought of paragliding? You can have a fresh start in Lima, since there are several companies that offer both tandem flights, led by experts, as well as formal training. In fact, many people tries a tamdem flight first, to make...

Spending Christmas in Lima? Odds are that you will spend it at a friend’s home, or maybe with any members of your family already established here. Anyway, it’s a good idea to get familiar with the Peruvians’ ways to celebrate Christmas. Christmas Tree at Jockey Plaza Shopping Center....

Museo Larco (Photo: Hesterr/Flickr) A multicultural country with such a long history and so many different historic periods has many museums. However, there are a few that you don’t want to miss.  Museo Rafael Larco Herrera:  it houses impressive collections of ancient Peruvian pottery and metalurgy,...

This is a museum run by a private foundation, dedicated to the preservation of Peruvian ancient cultures’ textiles and pottery. Established in 1964 by Yoshitaro Amano (Japan,1898 – Peru, 1982), the Museo Amano collection is presented in two rooms, one for ceramics and one for textiles, both carefully...

Established in 1926, the Rafael Larco Herrera Museum, known simply as “Larco Museum”, showcases impressive collections of ancient Peruvian pottery and metalurgy, covering 3,000 years of history: it also features the finest collection of silver and gold objects in the country. However, the most famous...

Palacio de Gobierno (Government Palace) Photo: J. Enrique Molina Visiting Lima Downtown for the first time? This post focuses on the historic buildings surrounding the iconic Plaza Mayor, or Plaza de Armas (Main Square). These happen to be also very nice pieces of architecture, so let’s learn a...

Pachacamac used to be the main place of worship in pre-Hispanic Lima: the ancients Peruvians used to come here since more than 1,000 years before the Inca empire to honor and offer presents to Pachacamac god, “the one that gives life to the world”. Nowadays these ruins are open to the public,...

One of the oldest mansions in Lima, the Casa de Aliaga is still oldest family-owned home in South America: it has been owned during 17 generations by the Aliaga family (one of the Lima founding families) since 1535. One of the best-preserved colonial homes in Peru, it is pretty much a time capsule where...

This is still the newest shopping mall in its kind in Lima, and may be unique in the world due to a particular feature –it has been built on a wall of a high cliff, so that it is possible to have a nice view of the Pacific ocean from almost any of its stores. Larcomar Shopping Center’s architectural...