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Parque Nacional Yanachaga
North of Oxapampa rear the cloud-capped hills of this little-visited park, preserving spectacular cloud forest and diverse flora and fauna, including the rare spectacled bear. The most accessible entrance is from a turning near Carolina Egg Guesthaus on the eastern edge of town. A
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Lamas
This town, a short drive from Tarapoto, is remarkable in the way that it is split into two distinct halves with mestizo (person of mixed indigenous and Spanish descent) residents positioned on the upper plateau while the indigenous community resides on the lower. A large faux-Europ
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Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm
A visit to the fascinating Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm is highly recommended. Ostensibly this is a conservation and breeding center for Amazonian butterflies. Butterflies aplenty there certainly are, including the striking blue morpho (Morpho menelaus) and the fearsome-looking owl
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Paracas Necropolis
A few hundred meters behind the visitor complex on Cerro Colorado are the 5000-year-old remains of a necropolis related to the Paracas culture, which predated the Incas by more than a thousand years. A stash of more than 400 funerary bundles was found here, each wrapped in many lay
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Minas de Santa Barbara
The ghostly mines of Santa Barbara, high in the hills above Huancavelica, and accessed by a tough but rewarding 1½ hour hike, are the citys most poignant site – and a warning to the mining companies now flocking to the central highlands. Closed since a collapse ended two centuries
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Museo Cassinelli
This private archaeological collection housed in the basement of a Repsol gas station (the one on the west side of the intersection, not the east side) is fascinating, with some 2000 ceramic pieces on display (curated from a collection owned by Italian immigrants) that certainly do
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El Complejo de Belén
Construction of this sprawling colonial complex, church and hospital, made entirely from volcanic rock, occurred between 1627 and 1774. The hospital was run by nuns and 31 tiny, cell-like bedrooms line the walls of the T-shaped building. The baroque church next door is one of Cajam
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Tambo Colorado
This early Inca lowland outpost, about 45km northeast of Pisco, was named for the red paint that once completely covered its adobe walls. It’s one of the best-preserved sites on the south coast and is thought to have served as an administrative base and control point for passing tr
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Cataratas de Ahuashiyacu
This 40m waterfall is about 45 minutes from Tarapoto toward Yurimaguas. There’s a small restaurant nearby and a locally favored swimming spot. Four-hour tours cost around S35 per person. Its possible to reach the entrance, a short walk from the falls, on public combis heading towar
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Huaca Esmeralda
Halfway between Trujillo and Chan Chan, this Chimú temple is to the south of the main road, four blocks behind the Mansiche Church. Thieves reportedly prey on unwary tourists wandering around, so go with a large group or a guide and keep your eyes open. Huaca Esmeralda was buried b
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Reserva Nacional Salinas y Aguada Blanca
The paved road from Arequipa climbs northeast past El Misti and Chachani to this national reserve , which covers 367,000 hectares at an average elevation of 4300m. Drives here take you up to an oxygen-deprived 4910m where, in between light-headed gasps for air, you can ponder weird
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Moray
The impressively deep amphitheater-like terracing of Moray , reached via Maras village, is a fascinating spectacle. Concentric terraces are carved into a huge earthen bowl. Each layer has its own micro-climate according to its altitude. Some theorize that the Incas used them as a k
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Complejo Arqueológico la Huaca el Brujo
This archaeological complex consists of the Huaca Prieta site, the recently excavated Moche site of Huaca Cao Viejo with its brilliant mural reliefs, and Huaca el Brujo, which is only starting to be excavated. The complex is 60km from Trujillo on the coast and is hard to find witho
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Monasterio de la Recoleta
Bibliophiles will delight in this musty monasterys huge library, which contains more than 20,000 dusty books and maps; the oldest volume dates to 1494. Scholarship was an integral part of the Franciscans’ order; the library is open for supervised visits, just ask at the entrance.Th
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Ichimay Wari
Lurín is a working-class enclave 50km south of Central Lima on the Panamericana. At its southern edge, crafts collective Ichimay Wari has its studios. Here, talented artisans from Ayacucho produce traditional retablos (religious dioramas), pottery, Andean-style Christmas decoration
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Iglesia de La Merced
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Río Madre de Dios Ferry Dock
This dock close to the Plaza de Armas is a cheap way of seeing a little of the action on a major Peruvian jungle river (the Río Madre de Dios), which is about 500m wide at this point. River traffic is colorful − multiple peki-pekis (canoes powered by two-stroke motorcycle engines w
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Palacio de Gobierno
To the northeast of Plaza de Armas is the block-long Palacio de Gobierno, a grandiose baroque-style building from 1937 that serves as the residence of Peru’s president. Out front stands a handsomely uniformed presidential guard (think French Foreign Legion, c 1900) that conducts a
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Plaza San Martín
Built in the early 20th century, Plaza San Martín has come to life in recent years as the city has set about restoring its park and giving the surrounding beaux-arts architecture a much-needed scrubbing. It is especially lovely in the evenings, when illuminated. The plaza is named
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El Cuarto del Rescate
The Ransom Chamber, the only Inca building still standing in Cajamarca, is where Inca ruler Atahualpa was imprisoned. The small room has three trapezoidal doorways and a few similarly shaped niches in the inner walls – signature Inca construction. Visitors are not permitted to ente
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