Peru tours and travel to Lima
Lima, Peru's capital was once reputed to be the most beautiful city in Spanish America. Lima today retains much of its charm. There is still a certain elegance to the old colonial center, and the city hosts a string of excellent museums.
Attractions include the Museo de Arte, which exhibits colonial furniture and pre-Columbian artifacts as well as 400 years of Peruvian art, the Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arquelogía, noted for its excellent exhibits of prehistoric Peru, Museo de Oro and the modern Museo de La Nacion. The Rafael Larco Herrera Museum contains more than four hundred thousand excellently preserved ceramics, and the famous erotic figurines. Churches such as San Francisco (famous for its catacombs) and Santo Domingo (circa 1540) provide a welcome respite from the outside clamor. Lima's many markets overflow with consumer goods and handicrafts. There are also plazas, lovely colonial buildings and a zoo.
Inexpensive good accommodation can be found in the city center and also in the residential zone of San Luis, nearby the centre of Lima and Miraflores. Here you can stay at the nice and cozy dutch peruvian family house Casa Sotomayor, which is founded by the owner of this travel agency.
The suburbs of Barranco and Miraflores have a number of fancy restaurants and live music venues and is very popular with backpackers. In Miraflores you also find the city's best stores, restaurants and nightspots.