Lima Flight Tickets

About Lima

Travel to Lima/Peru, where visitors enjoy the city with its centuries-old history and culture. Peru's coastal capital includes luxury shopping, historical sites, and exciting dining. Whether you're a nature fan, beach bum, or art history buff, Lima has something for everyone.

Things Not to Miss in Lima

• Take a stroll among the bones at the Iglesia de San Francisco. The Baroque church has an extensive underground cemetery, which was discovered in 1943. Visitors can wander through underground passages where they will find thousands of bones arranged in interesting ways.

• Visit Huaca Pucllana. Pre-Columbian ruins sit in the middle of the city, creating an interesting juxtaposition between the traditional and the contemporary.

• See art in an old waterside mansion. The Museo Pedro de Osma was built in the 1900s and now houses a variety of religious art. After seeing all of these, don't forget to go down to the ground of the mansion.

When to Go to Lima

The weather in Lima, Peru does not change much throughout the year. The average coldest temperature is around 62 and the hottest is around 83. Since Lima is in the southern hemisphere, its seasons are the opposite of those in the United States. So December and April are the hottest months with the least rainfall.

Things Not to Miss

• Sipping tart pisco (lemons, pisco (grape brandy) and foamed egg whites) at the bar at Hotel Maury, which claims to have invented the drink.

• Browse pre-Columbian works of art at Museo Larco. Don't miss the award collection of 1300-year-old erotic ceramics.

• Daily Market, bargain for handmade indigenous crafts, from clay jugs to Peruvian clothing to silver jewelry, at Mercado Indio.