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Trip Guide to Evolving Lima, Peru

Coliena Rentmeester Jewelry designer Ester Ventura, in her shop in the Chorrillos neighborhood

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Lima is a modern metropolis with skyscrapers designed by internationally known architects like Hans Hollein and Arquitectonica. The city sprawls along new roadways lined with gigantic shopping malls, cineplexes, and Starbucks. But despite these developments, the peculiar mood of Lima persists: its unexpected rhythms, its air filled with the weight of humidity, the scent of its lush flowering trees, its extreme contrasts between affluence and poverty.

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2 Hotels 4 Restaurants 11 Activities

Destinations: Peru · Lima

Themes: Arts + Culture · Food + Drink · Shopping

Inspired by: Lima Evolving — by Gabriella De Ferrari, Published Jan. 2006

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    Miraflores Park Hotel

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

    The hotel has one of the city’s best rooftop infinity pools and panoramic views of the Pacific from the private in-room balconies. More
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    El Olivar

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

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    Astrid y Gastón, Lima

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

    Praised as one of the world's most innovative chefs, Gastón Acurio has established outposts of his restaurants in Madrid and Santiago. In a colonia

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    Pescados Capitales

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

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    Manos Morenas

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

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    Huaca Pucllana Restaurant

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

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    Inka's Empire Tours

    Peru | Latin America

    The company arranges tours through Peru. More
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    Orient-Express

    Peru | Latin America

    The company arranges tours through Peru. More
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    Condor Travel

    Peru | Latin America

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    Mercado Indio

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    Lima | Latin America | Peru

    Bargain for clay vessels and ponchos at the sprawling daily market. This is the place to find deals on inexpensive souvenirs.




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    La Catedral

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

    Baroque, solemn, and imposing, a relic of the time when the Spaniards used the might of religious architecture to seduce the natives into becoming ... More
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    Iglesia de San Francisco

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

    This convent's church is notable for its catacombs. More
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    Helena's

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

    The store sells the Peruvian delicacy called teja, try the one made of candied lemons stuffed with dulce de leche and dipped in sugar. More
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    Ester Ventura

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

    Ester Ventura sells intriguing gold and silver jewelry that incorporates seeds, weavings, seashells, coral, and pre-Columbian fragments. More
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    Dédalo

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    Lima | Latin America | Peru

    With pieces made from materials both expected (Amazonian wood carvings) and unusual (recycled tin-can mobiles), the emphasis here is on contemporar

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    Claudia Stern

    Lima | Latin America | Peru

    Claudia makes the most unusual necklaces, bracelets, and rings from velvet-covered wire twisted in strange shapes and dyed an amazing array of colo... More
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