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 Lima / South Peru
Capital with different faces
lima
It is in this metropolis city of almost 12 million inhabitants where you most of the time enter Peru.
By cruise in the harbor of Callao or by airplane in the international airport of Jorge Chavez. He was a Peruvian aviation pioneer. The airport is located in Lima at approximately 45 minutes from the colonial center or the commercial districts as Miraflores, San Isidro, etc. The ... |
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Cusco / South Peru
The Inca Capital
Cusco lays claim to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Americas.
It was the religious and administrative capital of the far-flung Inca Empire, and the equivalent of Mecca for the Inca's subjects; every person of importance throughout the empire tried to visit Cusco once in his lifetime. So it is nowadays with tourists. Most travellers usually end up seduced with this vibrant city and stay ... |
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Pisco /Zuid Peru
Paracas & Ballestas Islands Islas Ballestas (Ballestas Islands)
These spectacular islands, eroded into many caves and arches, provide shelter for thousands of seabirds and hundreds of sea-lions. Although the islands fall just outside the Paracas National Reserve they are protected by separate legislation. The islands are home to over 150 species of marine bird including the Humboldt penguin, cormorants, boobies and pelicans. Even condors have been known to visit. On ... |
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Nasca /South Peru
The Mysterious Nasca Lines
Nasca /444KM from lima
Set in a green valley amid a perimeter of mountains. The main reason to visit this small desert town are the mysterious Nasca lines. Just before arriving to the small town, you traverse a huge desert plain, similar to the Tademait, in Sahara. It's in this arid pampas that was found in 1939 strange figures, the dark desert surface revealing a lighter colored ... |
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Arequipa /South Peru
The white city
The whole year around there’s an enjoyable temperature. The second biggest city after Lima with 750.000 habitants. Arequipa is situated at 2335 m and is surrounded by 3 imposing volcanoes, The Misti (5822 m) an active volcano the Chachani (6075 m) and the Pichu Pichu (5664 m). The´white city made of(sillares (the white volcanic stone ) is the richest city of Peru .Founded 15 august 1540 and ... |
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Puno /South Peru
TITICACA LAKE and the islands
Titcaca Lake, 3.825m above sea level
Location: It's located at the high plateau of Collao in the Southern highlands of Peru, at the border with Bolivia. It's at 3,825 meters or 12,560 ft. above sea level, therefore, take it easy on the first days, otherwise, you could get sick because the altitude.
Landscape: The lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world and the ... |
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Sacred valley Cusco / South Peru
Pisaq,Ollantaytambo,Chinchero,Maras,Moray
PISAQ
Located 18 Km.from Cusco in straight line and 35 Km through a paved road, Pisaq is considered as a typical Inca town, with several stages of a state city, and early privileged assimilation to the Inca Empire.
The remains of the political, administrative and religious structures are distributed on the slopes and peaks of the mountains on the right border of the Urubamba river. Nowadays, there is a population ... |
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Puerto maldonado & Manu /South Peru
The Southern Amazon Jungle of Peru
Although throughout the world jungles have existed for hundreds of millions of years, it is only within the last 100 years that they have been on the decline. It has been estimated that during the course of the last century we have managed to destroy half of the world's rainforest and, based on current forecasts, we look set to destroy the rest within the ... |
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Trujillo / North Peru
The archaeology of Northern Peru is at least as interesting as the archaeology in the Cusco area!Peru is a huge country, full of ancient empires, with the rise and fall of spectacular kingdoms throughout the ages. The Incas were the last era before Columbus, so their gold and empire was recorded and made famous to Europeans. Today 99% of Peru’s tourists go ONLY to the half of Peru South ... |
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Huaraz / North Peru
All wonders of nature and history
The archaeology of Northern Peru is at least as interesting as the archaeology in the Cusco area!Peru is a huge country, full of ancient empires, with the rise and fall of spectacular kingdoms throughout the ages. The Incas were the last era before Columbus, so their gold and empire was recorded and made famous to Europeans. Today 99% of Peru’s tourists go ONLY to ... |
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Chiclao /North Peru
All wonders of nature and history
The archaeology of Northern Peru is at least as interesting as the archaeology in the Cusco area!Peru is a huge country, full of ancient empires, with the rise and fall of spectacular kingdoms throughout the ages. The Incas were the last era before Columbus, so their gold and empire was recorded and made famous to Europeans. Today 99% of Peru’s tourists go ONLY to ... |
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Chachapoyas / North Peru
CHACHAPOYAS, capital of the department of Amazonas, is one of Peru's oldest small cities founded in 1538 by Alonso de Alvarado and one of the few that still maintains its noble air and Spanish influence. It was linked to the capital by air in 1930 and by land in 1960. A capital of orchids, sugar cane and coffee, cock fights and exquisite food, it is capable of enchanting anyone ... |
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Cajamarca / North Peru
All wonders of nature and history
The archaeology of Northern Peru is at least as interesting as the archaeology in the Cusco area!Peru is a huge country, full of ancient empires, with the rise and fall of spectacular kingdoms throughout the ages. The Incas were the last era before Columbus, so their gold and empire was recorded and made famous to Europeans. Today 99% of Peru’s tourists go ONLY to ... |
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Tumes and Mancora / Norh Peru
All wonders of nature and history
The archaeology of Northern Peru is at least as interesting as the archaeology in the Cusco area !Peru is a huge country, full of ancient empires, with the rise and fall of spectacular kingdoms throughout the ages. The Incas were the last era before Columbus, so their gold and empire was recorded and made famous to Europeans. Today 99% of Peru’s tourists go ONLY ... |
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Iquitos Jungle / North Peru
Amazon/jungle of Peru
The longest river in the world: the Amazonas
With 7,200 km of length, the Amazonas river is the longest in the world and has a fluvial basin surface of 7'050,000 km2. The Amazonas is born in the altitudes of the snowcapped mountain Mismi, in the Cordillera de Chila, in Arequipa with the name of Monigote river. Then, it goes down the Peruvian rainforest and receives the water ... |
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