Lima

The last stop on my RTW trip!!!!!

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April 20th 2009
On arrival I took a taxi and straight to a hotel and for a walk in the centre. Even though the centre of Lima is very nice with the big squares with the nice buildings and churches, I don’t think I’ve felt so unsafe anywhere else around the world than I felt there, don’t know why, so everytime I needed to move somewhere I was first asking a policeman to get me a safe taxi (not sure if that w ... read more

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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