Lima -- City of Kings

Lima is huge, chaotic, polluted and dangerous. But it's also vibrant and exciting, full of movement and colour, rich in history and a delicious variety of food.

The fiesta of the Virgen de la Candelaria is celebrated in February by the people of Puno with days of drinking and dancing, and extravagantly elaborate costumes that people sometime s spend all year putting together. Here the puneños of Lima put on their own party in the streets of the capital.

The plaza San Martin in Lima's historic centre is a pleasant green space with an equestrian statue of the 'liberator' of It features in the novels of Mario Vargas Llosa

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