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The capital of Peru, spread out between the Pacific, the mouth of Rio Rimac (which gave him its name) and Cerro San Cristobal, with the foot of the first buttresses of the Andes, is a city now over-populated: from 3.000.000 inhabitants in 1975, it passed to 8.000.000, one the third of the population of Peru!

It is true that the very sad Eighties, remembered by the recession and bloody the guerrilla of the Luminous Path in the Andes, saw flowing towards the capital of the country populations of the Sierra source especially of the areas of the central cordillière - pushed by the hunger and the fear in a massive rural migration.

Lima, around which shantytowns had already started to grow as of the end of the Fifties, is seen girdled today by an immense urban fabric of barriadas which are the equivalent of the Brazilian favelas. The example more shouting of this reality is the agglomeration of Villa El El Salvador which only counts with it nearly 400.000 inhabitants, which makes of it the largest shantytown of South America! This economic and social reality must be present at the spirit of the tourist who accosts in Lima: it is done besides very quickly presents, as well in periphery as in the centre town, except in some easy districts, and even very easy.

That assimilated, one can prepare to traverse the streets of Lima, a city very variously appreciated by his visitors: some find it super and the other hideous one. The truth is at the crossroads of the two opinions!

Lima reserves its jewels with those which will want to be put in sorrow to find them and - which to reach that point - will manage to triumph over the ceaseless din of the street, of the black smoke of the buses, the sight of the courses or the alleys containing of infamous slums, the pickpokets, of the turista, of the troops of beggars, etc, etc

Lodging:

At Elizabeth Address: avenida del Parque Norte 265. Corpac. SAN ISIDRO LIMA

Telephone: (00511) 98007557

e-mail: hospedajeebr@yahoo.fr

Her web site :

http://chezelizabeth.typepad.fr


It is a very good address or Elisabeth will have a pleasure of accomodating you with her Clara assistant. She can also come to seek you has the airport against a moderate sum. We guarantee to you that to arrive at the airport of Lima after good ten hours of flight and to see a small panel with its name.