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City Tour Modern and Colonial in Lima – City Tour

Discover the ancient, colonial, and modern highlights of historic Lima on this guided city tour.

  • City Tour
  • Max 16 People
DURATION

City Tour

LOCATION

Lima

MAX ALTITUDE

154 m s. n. m.

DIFFICULTY

Easy

City Tour Modern and Colonial in Lima – City Tour

This guided Lima city tour explores the city’s pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern history, beginning with Pacific Ocean views and a drive through the modern districts of Miraflores and San Isidro, where you will see the ancient Huaca Pucllana temple. The tour then heads into the UNESCO-listed Historic Center to discover its colonial monuments and culminates with a visit to the historic Santo Domingo Convent, home to the relics of Saint Rose of Lima, Saint Martín de Porres, and Saint Juan Macías.

Itinerary

City Tour Modern and Colonial in Lima - City Tour

The Package include

Join us on a journey through time through the history of Lima, pre-Hispanic, colonial and modern. Visit its ancient spas, its valleys, pre-Hispanic temples and its Plaza Mayor. Get to know its religious life, its colonial architecture, its amusements and entertainment, the particular names of its streets, its evolution, modernization and the lives of its most famous characters from the colonial time.
We will start our colonial and contemporary Lima City Tour with a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean.

Modern Lima

This tour will take you through the modern districts of Miraflores and San Isidro. On the way there you will see the Huaca Pucllana, a pyramid shape pre-Inca ceremonial temple that has survived Lima’s massive urban growth.

Colonial Lima

Then you will visit the Historic Center of Lima which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, IN 1991, since it comprises more than 600 historical monuments from the colonial era. In this tour, you will discover a city that was once the center of the Spanish colony of century XVI.

Santo Domingo Convent

You will also visit the Convent of Santo Domingo, where the relics of three Peruvian saints are preserved: Saint Rose of Lima, Saint Martín de Porres and Saint Juan Macías.

Services Included

The Package include

  • Hotel pick-up and return
  • Professional Spanish/English speaking guide
  • Minibus tour of contemporary Lima, including the
  • districts of Miraflores and San Isidro
  • Walking tour of the main streets, squares and monuments of the Historic Center of Lima
  • Admission ticket to the Santo Domingo Convent
  • Guided tour of the Santo Domingo Convent
  • Permanent assistance

Not Included

  • Water
  • Tip for your guide

Price per person in Group Service

USD $45.00 per person

Magic Water Fountain Park + Lima at Night

At the end of the afternoon, 18:00 p.m. We will pick you up from the hotel to visit the Magic Water Circuit of “Parque de la Reserva”. This park has 13 cybernetic ornamental fountains and a wonderful show of laser lights, music and images that interact with the movement of water in perfect conjunction and harmony. Lima at Night:You will then visit the main streets and plazas of the Historic Center of Lima. After the tour you will be able to choose to stay at the USD$55.00

Tour Pachacamac

We will begin our tour in the traditional district of Barranco. We will see its Central Park, the Bajada de los Baños (the old walkway to the beach), the Library, the republican mansions, the Bridge of Sighs and its famous Boulevard, the most bohemian expression of nightlife in Lima. We will also visit the district of Chorrillos, a famous old time resort where the Pantanos de Villa (Villa Natural Reserve), the only protected wildlife refuge in the city is located.Next we will visit Pachacamac, the most important ceremonial center in pre-Hispanic times. All its massive temples and pyramids are built with mud. We will also visit the Pachacamac Site Museum and see the ceramic and textile exhibits as well as the wooden image of the Pachacamac idol. USD$45.00

Camera
Rain Jacket (In the wet season from October to March)
Water
Cap for the sun
Sunglasses
Sunscreen

How to book

To book the tour, please send us an email with the information of each person in your group:

Full name, nationality, date of birth and gender
Copy of your passport
The tour you want to do, the start date
How many people are in your group
info@peruvianpathsandadventures.com

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