The Lima City Tour is a half-day amazing journey in Peru’s main town! You can book it as an additional package before coming for the Cusco region leg of your vacation or as you prefer! On this article we’ll go through all the thrilling details of this trip.
You can do this tour beginning either at 9:15 am or 2:15 pm. Our staff will pick you at the hotel and then go to board the comfortable tourism bus.
We will visit the following places of great interest on the Lima City Tour:
- Huaca Pucllana: this is a fascinating pre-Inca site, where there is a pyramid which was the core of the place, used for religious purposes. Also, we will see many features of this settlement that show the way of life on this region around 6th century a.C. Archaeology is present all over Peru, not only Cusco!
- Downtown Lima: here you will tour the many places that Spanish rule left in this part of the city. At the Plaza de Armas (Main Square), the Spaniards built the Palacio de Gobierno (house of the President), the Cathedral, the Archbishop Palace, the Mayor Palace, all together at the same place as it was the urban tradition overseas in Spain.
On this same note, we will go to the Plaza San Martín (named after General José de San Martín, one of Peru’s founding fathers), a central place in Lima’s downtown, where many times public meetings, political rallies are conducted and which shows a beautiful architecture.
Also, there is the Banco Central de Reserva (Peru’s Federal Reserve) Museum, a must-see attraction with quite valuable items from our pre-Hispanic past: gold, silver, pottery, textiles.
You can see wonderful paintings dating from our independence days until present. Finally, we’ll go to the San Francisco Convent, also from colonial times, which houses the largest heritage of religious art in the American continent. There we will next visit the famous catacombs, full of religious history too.
- Contemporary Lima: after finishing the fantastic journey around downtown, the Lima City Tour goes westward to one of the wealthy sides of town, that is, San Isidro (financial area which also includes the beautiful, elegant El Olivar Park), Miraflores (once the residence of Lima’s aristocracy, today an upper-class area) with its top mall called Larcomar, which offers plenty of shopping, gourmet foods and drinks an also a marveling, vast view of the Pacific ocean.
The metropolis offers a variety of activities to do during your stay.
TOUR IN PERU offers the Lima City Tour on a daily basis, throughout the year. You can certainly personalize this package in order to have a tailored experience in Peru’s capital, or also book it as a private tour, in which case our top-quality service will be 100% focused on your needs.
The Lima City Tour is a premier option for your vacation in Peru, as a wonderful addition to visiting the Cusco region! Contact our professional team of travel operators for more details and booking this marvellous trip!
