1) City Tour and Tour Colonial and Modern Lima

14:15 pm City Tour Colonial and Modern Lima

This excursion provides a perfect combination (pre-hispanic era, colonial period and modern Lima), and enables the visitor to get acquainted with Lima's complete history.

We will visit the Huaca Pucllana, a magnificent ceremonial and administrative center of Lima culture, built in the 4th century A.D. and considered by the Incas as Naupallaqta, a "Sacred Village".

We will show you the "Historical Center". Paseo de la Republica, San Martin Square, Main Square, Government Palace, Basilica Cathedral, The Archbishop's Palace, City Hall Palace, The Old Streets with colonial mansions and Moorish-style balconies.

We will also visit "the convent of San Francisco de Asis" the greatest monumental assembly of colonial art in America. The monk's choir and library; the vestry, with painting by zurbaran and Rivera; main cloister decorated with sevillian tiles from the 16th century; Moorish arches, and the famous "Catacombs", underground crypts from the colonial times.

The tour continues through the more traditional residential areas; El Olivar in San Isidro, with olive trees brought from Spain in the 17th century; Miraflores Central Park, and "Larco Mar", a spot of international thematic attractions which offers a spectacular panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean - Larco Mar has became a distinctive symbol of modern Lima.

Pm. At a certain time transfer from the hotel to the airport and international departure.

Ancient Lima

3) Colonial Lima

The Viceroyalty of Peru was the most important of the Spanish Empire and Lima was its capital. In its Historic Center, the architecture and urban layout of that period stand out, in old streets with colonial mansions with Moorish-style balconies. Our tour includes the Paseo de la República, Plaza San Martín and the Plaza Mayor, with its distinctive buildings: the Government Palace, the Archbishop's Palace, the Cathedral Basilica and the Municipal Palace.

In the historic center we visit one of its most beautiful buildings, the Museum of the Central Reserve Bank, where the Treasures of Peru can be seen: a select exhibition of gold objects, ceramics and textiles from various cultures pre-Columbian, from its origins to the Incas, which captivates and impresses our visitors.

We enter the monumental Convent of San Francisco, which is the largest sample of colonial religious art in America. The Choral Room and the Library of the Monks, the Sacristy, with its collection of canvases by Zurbarán and Rivera can be appreciated. The Great Courtyard of the Main Cloister, finely decorated with Sevillian tiles from the 16th century, its beautiful Moorish arches and the Underground Crypts, known as the Catacombs, where you will feel the presence of the colonial past.

Contemporary Lima

View of the most traditional residential areas of the capital: El Olivar de San Isidro, Miraflores and Larco Mar, a distinctive tourist center of current Lima and a privileged point to appreciate a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean

4) Day 1: Arrival to Lima

Arrival in Lima and transfer from the airport to the hotel.
Overnight at the hotel in Lima

Day 2: City Tour in Lima

09:15 am : Tour to Pachacamac Ruins

Barranco and Villa Marshland After a visit to Barranco, a neighborhood both traditional and bohemian, and its well-known Bridge of Sighs, we will tour the beaches along the Green Coast and the Friar’s Leap ledge over the ocean, the Ecological Reserve at the Villa Marshlands, with spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean along the South Pan-American Highway. Then we arrive to Pachacamac.

This fascinating temple is placed 30.00 km far from Miraflores. This is a sacred and ceremonial center of the beginning of the Christian era, to which thousands of pilgrims came to present offerings, and consults, the oracle of Pachacamac was able to see into the past and into the future to predict destiny.

Our guided tour to Pachacamac includes a visit to the pyramidal temples: the temples of the sun, and of the virgins of the sun which are parts of the archaeological complex. It also includes a museum on site where the idol of the god Pachacamac is kept.

13:00 pm buffet lunch in a tourist restaurant.

18:00 pm Back to the hotel.

Included:

• Tourist bus.
  
• Tours.
  
• Professional English speaking guide.
  
• Entrance fee.
  
• Buffet lunch.
  
• 01 night accommodation in a 03* hotel in Lima + breakfast.
  
• Transfer Airport/hotel/Airport.
  
• Tax and service.