Lima Things to Do Tips by chancay

It´s worth one´s salt to visit this museum.
As you maybe know, there´s not too much gold that stayed in southamerica, the most of it has been brought directly to Spain where the reyes of Spain lived more than 200 years only from the gold of southamerica. But there´s still a lot in Peru, you can find it e.g as well in the cathedral of Lima and in that museum you find a lot of beautiful works from the times of the Incas and other older cultures.
Besides you find a big exposition of weappons and arms, a lot of ceramics, parts of it typical erotic art of the Chimu culture (there is also a special museum of erotic ceramic arts in Lima = Museo Rafael Larco Herrera) and as well typical historical clothes.

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Phone: +51 1 435-0791
Address: Alonso de Molina 100, Monterrico, Surco
Directions: eastern part of the city, just search for a Combi or Micro to Monterrico /Surco

The museum shows the Peruvian history from Nazca to Macchu Picchu, from Moche to Inca. It's very complete and the exhibitions are pretty well organised.
There´s been also a special exposition about the "Seńor de Sipan". Today there´s only a copy of it in the museum because the originals are in a new museum in Cajamarca near to the place where the graves were found.

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Phone: +51 1 476-9875
Address: Av. Javier Prado Este 2465, San Borja.
Directions: district of San Borja, near to the Avenida Arequipa (between Lima centro and Miraflores)

Barranco is a destrict of Lima with a lot of bars and discos. From wednesday to sunday you can find every night an interesting place to dance, drink and meet students,artists and tourists from all over the world.
Barranco is also known as an artists destrict...search the way down to the pacific from the little central plaza in Barranco...there you´ll find a lot of beautiful houses where parts of the artists live.

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The main place of old Lima. Nowadays Lima is so big that there are a lot of other big "main places" of several districts of the "Municipalidad de Lima". Every district as for example Miraflores, Lince, San Isidro, Jesus Maria, Surco as as well Lima (also a district -the central district) etc has it´s own townhall and government.

Here around the main plaza de armas are placed the gigantic cathedral of Lima, the government building of the peruvian president and several other oficial buildings. Very special is the fact, that all the buildings around are painted in yellow....to have a contrast to the often grey sky. Also amazing are the wooden balkonies at some of the buildings around the plaza.

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Address: centro de Lima

another very central place, between plaza de armas and plaza de San Martin there´s a street only for footwalker, a touristical shopping mile.

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south of Lima next to the Panamerica there are various nice beaches to spend day and night (a lot of beach party with beach-disco etc.), for example Silencio or Pulpos are good beaches.

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Directions: around km 90 in the south of Lima

Coca Cola is always first...... in these touristic places of course, but even in the smallest farest away villages: Coca Cola already has been there :-))
It´s one of the most known words in the whole word, am not sure, but think that more than 90% of world population knows the word.

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Callao is the harbour of Lima. It´s a seperated town but part of Lima commune.
Apart from the harbour Callao ´s got a lot of old buildings in colonial style and a very interesting fish market.

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Directions: northwest of the city, way to the airport

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Directions: north of Lima, direction airport