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Lima Local Customs

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Learning to stand in a canoe...
  • Updated By barbaragai on August 25, 2002
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    Learning to stand in a canoe is a cool thing to master. The people can show you the tricks. Good luck!


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    Mazamorra Morada
  • By hartti on December 19, 2006
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    Lima girls are sweet as Mazamorra Morada... That´s why they are called sometimes Mazamorra Moradas. It´s a dessert similiar than a Finnish "kiisseli", eaten at Xmas time with rice porrige. The main component is red corn juice with some fruits.

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    Handouts and Begging
  • Updated By Robin922 on March 17, 2008
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  • Not unique to Lima or even Peru, but very common… people asking for money. While it can pull at your heart strings, you need to think first. Kids running to the car while you are stopped at a red light, might not a behavior you want to reinforce. It’s one thing for an adult to be doing summersaults or juggling, and looking for a little loose change, but a child is another story. Also there appears to be a woman with child on every other street. It’s hard to tell who needs the money and who doesn’t. From what I understand from the locals, people with disabilities do need the money. Job opportunities for the disabled haven’t progressed to the level of other counties yet. If you just can’t or don’t wish to just go on your way, I would strongly suggest that you keep a pocket full of one Sol coins.

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    Racist Hypocrisy
  • By Assenczo on October 2, 2006
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  • One has to go no further then fifty meters away of the main square and he will find another manifestation of South American hypocrisy carved in stone. The monument, shaped like an Indira Ghandi grave stone, commemorates and honours the local tribe that established the settlement where now Lima stands. Except for the physical coincidence of the two locations there is nothing else in common between the “indigenas” and the City of Kings. It was a Spanish creation for Spanish purposes maid by Spaniards. Of course, it is awkward, when ungrateful offspring disassociates from its ancestors and claims connection to a root totally foreign to it. This shows to what lengths people are prepared to go in order to justify their claim to power.

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    WeekEnd Food Festival
  • By FatherEdward on June 14, 2007
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  • PLAZA ITALIA--Barrios Altos--On Saturdays and Sundays there is a wonderful assortment of typical Peruvian Dishes in the Plaza Italia, located 3 blocks from the Congress Building. It is next to the China Town barrio, lots of good and inexpensice food. The Food Festival is under the dirrection of some of the best Chefs in Lima and everthing is very clean and throughly inspected. There usually some live music and just a safe and great way to sample almost everything.


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    you meet disciplined pupils visiting ,everywhere..
  • Updated By cbeaujean on May 11, 2003
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    all pupils have to be highly interested...listening to the teacher in a religious silence....

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    polite
  • By choiboyx012 on August 30, 2007
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  • people here are very polite. they'll always greet you with buenos dias/tardes.

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    kiss on the cheek
  • By choiboyx012 on August 30, 2007
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  • people here kiss each other on the cheek once when meeting and departing.

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    try to learn the peruvian...
  • Updated By utttz on August 24, 2002
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    try to learn the peruvian seagulls language!

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