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| Lima "City of The Kings" |
Located on the Pacific central South American coast, Lima is Peru's principal port of entry and exit. It has excellent hotels, restaurants and shops throughout the city to provide visitors with all creature comforts.
The main tourist attractions are: |
* City Tour:
Starting with the main square, Plaza de Armas (1537), we find the Cathedral and other architectural jewels such as the Archbishop's Palace, Government Palace, the House of the Oidor, Municipal Palace, Torre Tagle Palace, etc. Afterwards we take a tour through modern Lima, ending up at the "Parque del Amor" in Miraflores, that lies on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
* Larco Herrera Museum:
This is located in a Colonial mansion built in1701, which contains approximately 45,000 pieces of gold, silver, ceramics, textiles, stone, wood, etc., with unusual pieces in each material. There is also a unique collection of erotic huacos (clay figures). |
* Gold Museum:
This impressive museum exhibits thousands of pre-Inca and Inca gold and jewelry items. It also has a very large collection of ancient arms from different countries as well as a room of pre-Columbian textile articles, some of them from the Paracas civilization, some 2000 years ago.
* Museum of Archaeology:
Here you will admire the mastery of skull trepanning carried out with the most simple instruments in ancient times. You will appreciate the didactic and chronological evidence of all the many cults Peru has had over the years, outstanding being the collections from the Chavin, Nazca, Paracas, Mochica, Chimu, Huari and Inca civilizations.
* The National Museum:
Here you can appreciate, in chronological order, the different civilizations that gave rise to the Inca Empire. There is also a replica of the Lord of Sipan's tomb, considered as the most important archaeological discovery in the world over the last ten years.
* Pachacamac Ruins:
Located 31 kilometers South of Lima high over the Pacific ocean, there are pre-Inca adobe ruins are of a moon worshipping civilization. When the Incas arrived they respected the conquerors' religion and in turn built temples to both the Sun and Moon. There is a beautiful view of Lurin valley and the Pacific Ocean. |
* Caral: Early in 2001, a site located on the Pacific coast of Peru which had been known for over a hundred years made headlines all over the world. The site of Caral and the cluster of eighteen similarly dated sites located in the Supe Valley included in what is now called the Caral-Supe Civilization are important because together they represent the earliest known urban settlement in the Americas--nearly 4600 years before the present. Caral is a 200 acre site located on a dry terrace, fourteen miles inland from the coastline. It has a central public area with six large platform mounds arranged around a huge plaza. The largest of the mounds is 60 feet high and measures 450x500 feet at the base. All of these mounds were built within one or two building periods, which suggests a high level of planning, generally associated with state level societies. The public architecture has stairs, rooms, and courtyards; and three sunken plazas suggest society-wide religion. Of the 18 other sites near Caral, ten are more than 60 acres in size; all of them have similar public architecture. Crops included squash, beans, and cotton, grown in the dry desert climate with the assistance of a intricate irrigation system. |
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