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Lego exhibition at Plaza San Miguel

I had the good fortune to take a random trip to Plaza San Miguel in San Miguel de Magdalena last

Gamarra is the largest clothing and textile market — if not the largest informal market — in Latin America. If you like to shop

The New York Times has just published a travel view with video on Lima, Peru. The article features a three-day

Jump to the food pics. My wife’s cousin visited Lima last weekend. She had never seen Barranco, so we headed

Bar Maury, pictured above, invented the Pisco Sour in the early 1900s when an American guest asked for a whiskey

Peru’s plutonium-colored soda, Inca Kola, tastes like bubblegum. Started by a British family in the 1930s, the brand is now

Chicha Morada is a juice made by boiling purple corn, pineapple and apple, then adding lime, sugar and cinnamon. It

Suspiro de Limeña may be the namesake, but by popularity Picarones are the undisputed champion of Lima desserts. The fried