Llamas, Ponchos, Machu Picchu and Paddington Bear, Peru is often included in the click. But step beyond and you will discover a place with different landscapes – mountains, sea, desert jungle and Amazonian – and attractive culture.
Below, we have described a perfect introductory itinerary for an authentic experience in the hottest nation of South America.
Just the capital
Lima, the Port Capital of Peru, is a wide urban landscape, with approximately 11 million inhabitants, high rise, snoring traffic and an excess of casinos. It usually marks the beginning for all points in Peru.
Divided into 43 districts, Lima is trending in the same direction as the city of Mexico in terms of food and art. Miraflores has become the place for food, with higher value restaurants, just as there is a Barranco in its south.
Formerly a fishing village, Barranco is also now the part of Lima for shops, restaurants, grass, cafes, clubs and art museums, all of which are often found in glowing buildings that were once lemon beach palaces.
There is a vibrant crowd, boho on the mural streets. Staying behind it is the destroyed neo-Gototic remains of Hermitage of the Barranco Church, looking as a backdrop for a post-apocalyptic film. The current structure dates back to 1901, but adjustments and earthquakes have received a fee, though restaurant works are continuing.
You can put the cramp behind you with a renewal stay in Westin Lima (from $ 261 per night) in the rich neighborhood of San Isidro. The high -rise hotel boasts the view of the city’s lights and claims to have the best urban bathroom in South America.
Best of all, their speakeasya alphones is a hidden, cozy mafia -themed bar, where you can get your tequila adjustment.
Or, you have the first of the many of the Peru, Pisco Sour – Peruvian brandy, mixed with lime, egg whites and sugar, which descends slightly easier.
Eating
A 4-hour south car from Lima will take you through the seemingly endless desert with piles of sand lying on the horizon. Finally, the irrigated fields appear and you reach the Paracas and its hotel games on the beach known to Lima residents for the weekend escapes.
It is located on a peninsula and surrounded by a broken national reserve, full of nature, which feels the unique red volcanic playsa guard sands. The bay is full of bobing fishing boats that attracts the bay of pisco for its rich harvest – you will enjoy the sea gum still pulsating in the cooler, the most delicious (National Plate of Peru).
Order it at the Paracas Hotel (from $ 220 per night), which is avoided with its neighbors’ water rods to provide richer attraction. The rooms, suite and ocean villas all lead to a wide pool overlooking the sea, and the adjacent barrel of Zarcillo is the perfect place for Pisco Sours.
The hotel offers exotic excursions such as flights to the Nazca enigmatic lines, and off the street in the desert, but a daily journey from the luxury yacht is the best way to get to the uninhabited islands of the offshore. Here you will distinguish sea lions, Peruvian breasts, pelicans and penguins Humboldt and make a veil of Paracas Candelabra-A Geoglyph geoglyph prehistoric giant from 220 BC engraved on the hill.
Moreover, twice a week, the hotel hosts a cultural collection of more than 130 archaeological sites from Nazca civilization, as well as 2 million year old fossils discovered in the hotel.
As you sail, you can also pull near some sea fish, which will descend and bring you clinging them to try fresh by the sea. Then head to the Chalana restaurant at the dock for a pile of seafood, all caught within a mile of location and experienced experienced.
Inca well
The small rural city of Chichero is a often bypass part of the Holy Valley, which once formed the core of civilization Inca. Somewhat lost in time, its locals are mostly descendants of Inan and the main language is Quechua.
If you can get the height – 12,342 feet – visit the Chinchero Archaeological Park, which boasts the remains of the 15th -century Emperor Palace of the 15th -century Emperor Inca yupanqui. It was destroyed by the fire in 1536 to keep it not to fall into the Spanish hands, but the fields of levels layered with stone walls remain. After that, the Catholic Church that replaced it, build in 1607, is a primame example of local religious art, with a gold leaf altar.
We have to make here is a visit to Awanallaquta Tocapo, a market led by Marleny Callañaupa Quillah. The company brings revenue from local women and the opportunity to buy their first -hand goods.
Behind the unwanted doors stands a small square containing a range of stalls and some happy alpacas. Their wool is colored in natural colors and woven using traditional techniques, all demonstrated on site. From carpets to bright clothes, the guarantee of authenticity here (and prices) cannot be beaten.
Changes are coming to Chinchero, with a large airport under construction, so the time to see it now is.
Sister
ChinccheroRro is 20 miles outside Cusco, a 1.5-hour flight from Lima and former Inca capital. For an experience of diving trolle, check in Palace del Inka located in the center (from $ 280 per night), throughout Qoricancha (“Sun Temple”). Surrounded by historic places, Cucso’s shops and museums, to enter the cold walls is like entering a museum of art and archeology. The hotel was taken from a 500-year residence and is part of Cusco’s national heritage. Part of the building even dates to the time of Inca, including an eight -range stone.
These were considered alive and gave the building a soul. The live blessings of Inca occur here, where shells can thank the sun, the moon and Pacha mama (“Mother Earth”).
More than 195 pieces of artworks decorate the hotel, some dating from the 16th century. Foods are also well dressed for in Raymi, where, yes, Alpaca (served with unstable carrots, parmesan and baby) and guinea pigs (cooked in a clay oven, with local potatoes) are in the menu. Wash it down with a cocktail from Rumi – Peacecus grass, called for a local mountain, there are black whiskey Andean, Viñas de Gold Brandy, lime, purple corn syrup and activated coal.
Holy town
Peace Persuan? You will find it throughout the small town of Urubamba in the province of the same, but mostly in the luxury Tambo del Inka (from $ 476 per night).
Situated along a Russian river at the base of the mountains, visitors are greeted by white fluffy alpacas grazing on the lawn (they are polite enough to move in and extend from the fire in the evening).
Tambo is the Incan for the “place of rest” and nature is the name of the game. Built in 2010, it is the first Leed Hotel of Peru. Rooms and villas, some with private patios leading down the river, look at the mountains, where you will distinguish parrots and some of the 124 species of Hummingbirds of Peru. There is also a small Ande forest to explore.
With an indoor and outdoor pool, bath, even a beer in the country, the hotel is almost a self-fuel destination. The recently launched organic garden here feeds on glaciers in Mountaininatop, which water the rich soil. Along with edible vegetables and flowers, they are spices like cumin and coriander, all pollinated by local bees.
Chef Line Vega works magic with these fresh ingredients, and a garden barbecue is the perfect environment for epicure pleasure.
A unique feature of this location is the train station, Ollantaytambo, adjacent to the hotel. The first stop on Wiger Street to Aguas Calientes, a service containing a renewed traine of the 1920s for a stylish 3.5-hour ride through the village.
With an observation wheelchair for the views of the comprehensive mountain, you will cross farms, rivers and remote villages. On the return journey, you will be treated at the crew fashion show for almost always the multi-functional peruin cashmere. (Be prepared: There is also a decree of some local myths and legends that require a passenger participation). The cost is $ 121 every way, and it’s worth it, as Aguas Calientes is the gate to Manchu Picchu.
Highlight
If you are in Peru, there is really no Machu Picchu passage. This wonder of the world shows the special and evocative peace of the Andes, dressed in inca paths and remains of a 15th-century mountain castle. The legend of the legend on Instagram.
The area was discovered by Yale Professor and adventurer Hiram Bingham III in 1911, who mistakenly thought it was the lost city of Incas, full of gold. In a way he was right, when Machu Picchu was the hottest touch of the nation.
Many many: in 2008, an endangered site was estimated, and the access was reduced to 2,500 visitors a day. This is definitely a considerable amount, so yes, it is crowded. An input fee of $ 45 must be purchased prematurely, and passports will be checked. A guide for the day (recommended) will take about $ 150.
To get there, you can go hardcore and sign up for an official growth on the 26-mile Inca road, which usually lasts about four days, but Aguas Calients tourist, at the foot of the mountain, is the center for most visitors. It’s a 2-hour walk up from there, but the bus does the job for the majority.
Note that it is a winding, sometimes alarming (one of ours, slipped on the edge of the mountain during our visit, thanks to the spring rains that turned its way to the mud).
Anyway you get there, the view from above is certainly everything you hope it would be. Even with errors rolling back and forth, and the need not to be violated by visitors by making wild cracks at selfie points, has a magical quality.
We received a brief increase in some of the tracks of Inca, on which the original inhabitants ran from the invading invaders during the 16th-century Spanish expansionism, awake from the perspective of their journey, through the proud mountains and steep rocks.
Instead of simply scoring the box, it’s worth taking time to stop here, breathe in the mountain air and meditate those ancient tracks that went before.
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