Travel in city Lima

One of the best ways to get to know a country is through its food and beverage offerings. For the holiday season, check out these excellent wines from under-the-radar wine regions in different parts of the world (which we should be drinking more from!) for your wanderlust wine-loving friends who are eager to try something new. Note: All wines mentioned are available in the United States.

Culinary powerhouses from throughout Latin America gathered yesterday at the Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel, in Rio de Janeiro, to hear which restaurants would be honored as the very best in the region in 2023, according to World’s 50 Best.

Peru is a megadiverse country, offering countless adventures and cultural experiences for the intrepid – as well as potentially endless head-scratching and headache-inducing occurrences for the uninformed traveler. 

Lima is the third-largest city in South America and the second most populous, so discovering its safest and coolest neighborhoods on your own is no walk in the park.

Whether you're visiting Lima as a destination in its own right or here for a brief stopover before heading on to Cuzco and the Andes, there’s no bad time of year to visit.

Notorious for its chaotic traffic, Lima is a sprawling metropolitan city that can be intimidating for newcomers to navigate.

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With its top restaurants and leading cultural museums, you might never tire of the fast-paced metropolitan lifestyle found in Lima.

With its prime location on the Pacific Coast and a wealth of gourmet restaurants, metropolitan Lima should be mega-expensive.

Touted for its gastronomy, revered for its cultural legacies and marveled for its biodiversity, Peru is a land worthy of multiple visits – how else would you be able to see, taste and do it all?

The coastal capital city of Lima showcases what makes Peru a leading tourist destination: world-class gastronomy, ancient ruins and breathtaking natural landscapes.

Peru may be known as one of the cradles of ancient civilization, but its topography also makes it a wonderland of adventure.

Fronting onto a rugged stretch of shoreline, Lima is often used as a stepping stone to reach bucket-list sites such as Machu Picchu, but the capital of Peru has become a destination in its own right.

A sizzling strip of coastal desert. Endless snow-capped Andean summits. A humid expanse of rainforest mazed by mighty rivers. These three types of terrain form a triumvirate of completely different climates, ensuring there is no bad time of year to visit Peru.  

Distinguished by three topographical regions – mountains, jungle, and arid coast  – Peru is an ideal destination for outdoor enthusiasts as all roads seem to lead to a superb hiking trail. 

You know that old saying that it’s not about the destination but rather the journey? Well, there are few places on earth where the journeys are quite so epic as in Bolivia, which packs a continent’s worth of topography – soaring mountains, upland plateaus, and lowland jungles – into a relatively small package. 

When I was born, in 1946, Lima was home to 640,000 people. Now, as I’m about to turn 77 in the year 2023, Lima is a city of 10 million. The population has grown more than 15-fold. In some ways, you could say that I’ve survived alongside the city. I’ve gotten to know all 43 of its districts and municipalities, and I can say with true pride that I’ve suffered but also delighted in this gray, sleepy city. As Herman Melville describes it, in “Moby Dick”:

Ahead of the new year, we’ve crossed the world to find the 30 most exciting destinations for 2024, from Norway to Nova Scotia. With landmark hotels opening, ambitious rewilding projects under way and new train routes making travel easier than ever, there’s a lot to choose from for your next trip — whether you’re looking to connect with nature in Norway, scale Himalayan peaks in Sikkim or savour the culinary stars of Lima.

Amid the SAG-AFTRA writer strike, actress Danielle Pinnock needed somewhere to channel her creativity. Her friends were in France for Paris Fashion Week, and she had just returned home from her own trip to Europe, so, naturally, the bed bug infestation in Paris was top of mind.

Almost two years after I completed it, my mind frequently wanders back to my time on the Portuguese Way of the Camino de Santiago.

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