Church of San Francisco

First day in Lima

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January 2nd 2010
It's been a very long day. The flight to Miami was good, and so was the one to Lima, except that we got delayed an hour before take-off because no one had loaded the luggage onto the plane! oops. They loaded it pretty quickly and then we were off. We arrived around 11:30p and went through immigration/customs and started meeting up with the rest of the group. We ended up waiting about 2 hours ... read more

South America » Peru » Lima » Lima » Miraflores

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more