Dancing in the streets of Lima

Lima - The city of lights

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October 8th 2007
After the trek, we took a day for some rest, and the next day we (Erez, me and Yaron that was with us in the trek) said goodbye to Huaraz and our nice hostel, and took a 9 hours bus to Lima. Lima is a very big city, something like 8 million inhabitants, on the shore of the pacific ocean. It is covered with some kind of cloud-fog most of the year, due to some climatic phenomena (and probably pol ... read more

South America » Peru » Lima

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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