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“How many fingers do I have up?” “Where are you?” “Where are you from?” “What is your name?” asked the Peruvian doctor.
I’d fallen while hiking at Machu Picchu and spent 14 days in Peruvian hospitals. I had broken ribs and vertebrae, skull and nose fractures, a concussion...
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By the time we arrived in Lima I was utterly exhausted, but I couldn't help feeling a sense of pride in making it, by enduring the trip I felt like I deserved to be there. I’d felt the journey, which is exactly what I’d hoped to achieve, and always hope to achieve when travelling. Remember...
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Nov 14, 2007
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Our next stop was Trujillo, which is little visited, but sits next to some interesting pre-inca pyramids. We arrived in the early morning and it was an easy walk from the bus stop to the centre, where we found most places still closed, but did manage to find somewhere to grab a coffee. When...
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Nov 13, 2007
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From Cusco, it was another chilling (literally) bus ride to Lima. This time the bus broke down high in the mountains at about 2am, and it was soooooo cold. I was beginning to wish I had some coca leaves to chew, like some of the locals on the bus, to keep out the bitter chill. I tried not to...
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Oct 9, 2007
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Few visitors arrive in Lima with particularly high expectations - largely because many guidebooks warn that the city can be dangerous, and is almost constantly in the shade of an uninspiring grey fog.
Certainly, Lima is not one of South America´s most magical cities - the...
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As in most cities with a beach, restaurant have a fame degree, this one tops all of the other restaurants. I have heard of this restaurant because other tourists from Spain told us about it, but then I stated asking around and it seemed everyone knew about it except me. Anyway we climbed into a...
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This is the cheapest hotel I was able to find, we paid around 20USD for a double room, I liked it a lot because the hotel used to be a colonial house with many patios and terraces full of plants....
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Probably the second biggest church after the Cathedra, Santo Domingo has a lot more interesting things to see than the Cathedral.
You can visit Santo Domingo’s convent with a tour, which...
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My favourite district in Lima is Barranco; I loved it because of its nice bohemian atmosphere and its nice pedestrian streets.
This place as I said is very bohemian and you can find very...
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Lima downtown has several plazas, some of them are very nice and some of them are very dirty, they are mostly nice. The main pedestrian street goes from the Cathedral plaza to a different plaza which is also very nice. The street is always full of shops, bars, restaurant, coffee shops, and...
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The Cathedral in Lima is a very nice building also a very historical one, especially because of Francisco Pizarro’s tomb. He was the conqueror of Peru.
The Cathedral has guided tours...
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Travel Tip: Lima
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Lima does not get as much attention as it should, I mean most of the tourists go to Lima just because the airport is there, but they do not get to see how beautiful the city really is. Lima is like most Latin American big cities; there are dangerous places where you should not go but the city s...
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