Maury Hotel Lima

The City - Life at Every Second

by hartti

"Town of Demostrations"

At daytime you may see demostrations every day. On Avenida Abancay that is a rule, because its close to the congress center, where the participants gather to. It is between Pla de Ajacusco and Pla Bolivar. But there are demostrations - or manifestacions (or marchas de congressos) as the locals speak - elsewhere many places. Also, religious processions take places time to time everywhere, but this is not happening only in Lima.

"Poor Old Pizarro"

In this old postcard, the great old conqueror Francisco Pizarro still sits on his horse. But in 2003 the statue was fallen down by Luis Castañeda, the mayor of Lima. There was not such a big fiesta as in Bagdad about the same time when Saddam Hussein's statue was destroyed. Pizarro was the leader of the gang who put all the necessary wisedom into the heads of Incas by sword and fire.

"Home of Pisco Sour"

Close the Plaza de Armas is the restaurant of Hotel Maury where pisco sour was served the first time.

travel light

by christian99

Pack your luggage yourself and keep it with you at all times. Do not carry anything through customs for anybody else. You are advised not to take coca leaves/coca tea out of the country. It is illegal to import these items into the UK.
Drug trafficking is a serious crime in Peru and drug smugglers face severe penalties, usually receiving long terms of imprisonment. Conditions in Peruvian prisons are unpleasant.

La Hacienda Casino

by nenzo about Best Western La Hacienda Hotel & Casino Miraflores

One of the evenings we decided to enter this casino. It was a great experience!

At the entrance you have to give your camera to the guard. He will put it in the safety box, and return it to you when you leave the casino.

Well inside, there are slot machines and tables. It is a nice casino, the service is good and they got the tables necessary to play. They have BlackJack, Punto Banco, Oasis Poker and American Roulette.

As long as you gamble, all drinks, cigarettes and sandwiches are for free. Just contact the waitresses that serves the tables. If you stay long enough they even serve a meal for free which you can eat at the table! I tried the paella. :-)

We played BlackJack all the evening. It is played with standard rules with the following specials: No resplit of aces, no blackjack possible on splitted aces and early surrender allowed.

Also there was a promotion running. For every BlackJack, you got a lottery ticket where you could win USD 1000. But you had to stay there when they draw it. I think it was 01:00 AM :-)

I don't remember exact, but the Casinos opening hours is approx 18:00 until 06:00 No dress code, use jeans if you like.

'Jorge Chavez International...

by Luis_Alberto

'Jorge Chavez International Airport' is your gateway to this city, currently is being refurbish to bring it up to date, a process that will take a few years.
In and around the city your best option is the plentiful taxis, always take a yellow registered taxi, for your own security. Here is a picture of the gracious and imposing Lima's Catholic Cathedral.

La Tranquera

by lashr1999 about La Tranquera

This is an Argentine styled steak house. The restaurant is very bright and elegant.

The service in the restaurants was excellent. Our water glasses were filled. While we were waiting for our main dish, we were served some bread with different sauces. The food was worth the price. My steak was juicy and delicious. My friends mixed grill plate looked even better.

The total bill for 2 people was around $50. This included 2 nonalcoholic drinks and 2 main courses.