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This Starting Package is the best way to enter in Lima and Peru
After a long flight you arrive in Lima Airport and someone wil bring you to your first hotel in Lima
Like that you can easy get used to local custums, dont need any local mony when you arrive and easy you can start the rest of you travels
Included
1 transfer inn from airport or busterminal
1 transfer out to busterminal or airport
2 night accomodation at your choice see below
1 city tour in lima Look below the NR of the city tour
Prices 2012 are a person in USD dollar
Depending if the hotel calculated have room ! |
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Tour 1 Lima city tour DURATION : 4 HCOLONIAL LIMA
A visit to Lima’s historic downtown including Paseo de la Republica,Plaza San Martin ,The Main Plaza and the surrounding monuments :The Presidencial Palace ,The Cathedral, The Archbishop’s Palace,City hall, The train station,and the Moorish-Style houses and balconies along Lima,s old streets .In the Cathedral , the tour guide will show you the Sacristy, the side chapels ,the impressive Choir seating and the tomb of Lima,s founder, Francisco Pizarro.
The next stop is San Francisco convent, with the best exhibition of Colonial Art in Latin Amerika.The tour includes the Choir Hall,the Monks library and the Sacristy, featuring a collection of Zurbaran and Rivera oil paintings. After visiting the Main Patio of the Cloister to see its fine WVI century Seville tiles and Moorish Arches, the tour will proceed to the underground Crypts known as the Catacoms MODERN LIMA
A visit to the traditional neighbourhood near the San Isidro Golf Club , the Olive Grove park and the modern Larco Mar shopping and entertainment complex ,a distinctive landmark of modern Lima ,offering a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean . |
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Tour 2 museums of Lima DURATION / 4 H Larco Museum and Archaeological Museum
A single tour comprised of beautiful Colonial mansions with some of the major gold, ceramic, textile and art collections in South America . Great museums are in capital cities and Lima is one of them. Lima is home to two of the most important museums in this part of the Americas. They house incomparable artefacts and collections of pre-Colombian art from Peru and the New World .
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY .
The old Colonial mansion housing this museum was an old residence of Peru 's viceroys and then of its Liberators. This is Peru 's grandest museum and houses the Estela Raymondi and the Tello Obelisk monuments, two important carved stone pieces dating back to the Formative period 1000 years B.C. It features the largest textile collection, with fabrics from the Pre-Ceramic period through the Inca Empire, and a major collection of Ancient Peruvian metals. The remarkable Tawantinsuyo Room illustrates one hundred years of the Inca Empire through virtual models and re-creations.Closed on Mondays
Housed in a unique colonial residence dating back to the XVII century, built on top of a VIII century pyramid, this fabulous museum includes the exquisite Collection of Peruvian Gold and Silver from the olden days, and the Pre-Hispanic Erotic Art Salon. Its pieces have toured major world museums. Larco is among only a few museums around the world opening their vaults to the public, with over 45,000 archaeological pieces that have been classified by renowned specialists and scholars. The Larco Museum exhibits the largest private collection of pre-Colombian Peruvian art in the world. |
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Tour 3 gold museum DURATION : 3 ½ H See Peru 's most famous gold collection. A spectacular collection of Peruvian Ancient Gold and the Arms of the World Collection. PERU 'S GOLD MUSEUM
Ancient Peruvians were master metalworkers. The "cire perdue" or lost wax process, known across the Orient and lost in the West until the Renaissance was the most frequent technique used by master ancient Peruvian gold and silversmiths. On our tour of Peru 's Gold Museum , visitors will appreciate a dazzling collection of gold artefacts from various pre-Colombian civilizations, some more than 3,000 years old. Metal pieces and jewellery of incalculable value in gold, silver and precious stones used by the Incas-the children of the Sun God and monarchs of the vast Inca Empire-are shown in this collection.
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Tour 4 The sacred citadel of pachacamac
ANCESTRAL SHRINES
Our tour will start at the Pucllana temple built in the IV century A.D., an ancestral and ceremonial site dedicated to the local divinities. A panoramic view of the Huacllamarca shrine, a typical pyramid that characterizes sacred buildings on Peru 's coast. These shrines are located in the modern Lima neighborhoods of San Isidro and Miraflores.
PACHACAMAC
A guided tour of the splendid and vast archaeological citadel of Pachacamac, the temple of the deity, Pachacamac, believed to be the creator of the universe and a divinity adored by old Andean civilizations. A sacred and ceremonial site dating back to the beginnings of Christianity where thousands of pilgrims converged to pay tribute and consult the Pachacamac oracle, who they believed could see the past, the future and people's fate. The site comprises pyramidal temples and enclosures built by successive pre-Colombian civilizations and finally the Incas. Highlights include the Temple of Pachacamac , the Sun God shrine, and the Palace of the Chosen Women or Virgins of the Sun.
At the site museum there is an idol of the deity, Pachacamac, which couldn't be seen by the profane, and was reserved for the high priests who kept, revered and interpreted the divine oracle in the old times. A sacred site, the temple was considered to be part of the planet's mystical axis. BARRANCO AND VILLA MARSHLANDS
After a visit to Barranco, a neighborhood both traditional and bohemian, and its well-known Bridge of Sighs , we will tour the beaches along the Green Coast and the Friar's Leap ledge over the ocean, the Ecological Reserve at the Villa Marshlands, with spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean along the South Pan-American Highway .
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General For reservation we need the following information: *Full name like it is written in your passport *Date of birth *Nationality *Passport number *Flight number ,date and hour of arrival
Cancellation
Cancellations till 56 days before departure cost 15% of the total amount. Cancellation between 56 and 42 days before departure cost 30% of the total amount , from 42 to 28 days before departure 50%, from 28 to 14 days before departure 75% and from 14 to 7 days before departure 90%. If you cancel 7 days or less before departure, you have to pay the total amount Its better to take an insurgency for cancellation as well!. WE HOPE THAT YOU LIKE AND ENJOY THIS COUNTRY AS MUCH AS WE DO!! |