Lima

Lima is the largest city in and the capital of Peru. The city is situated in the central part of the country on the coast between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains, by river Rimac. Here you...

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Lima is the largest city in and the capital of Peru. The city is situated in the central part of the country on the coast between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains, by river Rimac. Here you find South America's oldest university, San Marcos. Lima also has excellent museum collections, among them gold crafts, textiles and ceramics from ancient Peruvian times (the Incas). In the 1990s 200 000 people annually came to Lima from the rurar areas and the upper middle class and the upper class have moved out of the city centre. Lima has become a huge metrolpolitan city where nature has been replaced with buildings of steel and concrete. There's hardly any parks here and Lima is struggling with many problems: traffic problems, high pollution, gigantic litter mountains, crime, prostitution, drugs and a fast growing grey informal job market. For being such a huge city, Lima has hardly no open gay scene. Though Lima has become more liberal in the last few years, a macho conservative culture still rules.