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grandmaR Says: This was one of the best tours we took in Peru. We got on an open boat (two 115 hp engines) with about 25 other people. I sat in back because I thought we might get wet in the front. I was right, but it was harder to take pictures because people kept standing up in front of...
grandmaR Says: BAP Abtao is a Sierra-type submarine which was launched as Tiburon (Shark). In 1957 her name was changed to Abtao in memory of the naval battle of 7 February 1866 fought between the Spanish and Purvian/Chilean naval squadrons. The Peruvians, under Captain Manuel Villar were...
grandmaR Says: This fort, the largest one in the Republic of Peru was built to ward off pirate attacks stemming from the fact that galleons loaded with the Inca gold left from this port. It is a pentagonal star shaped fort. Today it is under the jurisdiction of the Army and contains the...
hartti Says: In La Punta there are good beaches. Water is quite clean, and the waves are not so strong. Beaches are full of round stones, but there is small sand, too. Don't worry about sinking, the beaches are crowded by red-clothed life-guards.Besides swimming, it's possible to...
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grandmaR Says: Even in Callao, the people use the little local buses.Under construction
grandmaR Says: In the port area in Callao there was a small train engine on display. We were told that it was the original engine for the train that went to Machu Picchu. That was (and maybe still is) a narrow gauge line.It may also be from the line called the Ferrocarril Central del Perú...
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grandmaR Says: Because Callao is right on the water and is in an earthquake zone, they have an emergency evacuation procedure. Records only date back to the late sixteenth century, but since that time, large earthquakes centered off the Peruvian coast have generated several destructive...
hartti Says: At Lima-Callao international airport there are dogs nosing around your luggages for drugs. But at least the coca leaves are not consided as drugs by them, although - as fas I know - they are forbidden to carry to Europe.
hartti Says: Do not use all of your currency in Peru. At airport they ask taxes (19.50$ in Feb 2007) before flight, and that amount you shoud have in cash, otherways you may have problems.
El Frontón and Los Palominos Islands
grandmaR Says: There is an island off Callao where the terrorists of Communist Party of Peru of 1980, more commonly known as the Shining Path, which was a Maoist guerrilla organization in Peru were imprisoned. They were responsible for the deaths of thousands of inhabitants of the rural...
grandmaR Says: This is a port, and there is a yacht club. Apparently some people sail an a lot of people fish
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grandmaR Says: There are quite a number of lighthouses around this port. I did not see all of them.La Punta de Callao (1) A tower, painted black with two white horizontal bands. The lighthouse has been relocated to stand outside DHN's oceanographic institute (Instituto de Investigación...
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Recorrer la zona del puerto y más allá en una de las chalanas.
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Lima's Port - Provincia Constitucional del Callao
There are quite a number of lighthouses around this port in Peru which is the main port for Lima. We did not see them all - this model is of the Faro de la Marina, Miraflores which has become Peru's...
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Except the port, there are many beaches in Callao, and the water is quite clear. Mostly there is no sand, but small round stones, not too bad for walking. Besides the port there is the main Lima...
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The Punta region is considered as a tourist region, and you will perhaps have to pass a trafic control. The region is not so big, but the Malecon is beautiful to walk on.
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EL CALLAO, PUERTO PRINCIPAL DEL PERU
A unos 14 kms. de Lima se ubica este histórico puerto, que desde 1857 es Provincia Constitucional. Su historia portuaria arranca poco después de la fundación de Lima como capital de los dominios...
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