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The Top 5 Beaches in Peru

Peru benefits from being a country that has a lot of beach space, with the whole of its west coast bordering the Pacific Ocean – the largest body of water on Earth The Peruvian coastline runs down from the Ecuadorian border...

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The Top Machu Picchu Alternatives: Skip the Crowds and Visit One of These Unique Sites

2020 Updated Information: Here are the top Machu Picchu alternatives which you can visit to skip large crowds and still get the same amazing experience In recent years, many Machu Picchu alternatives have been discovered and...

Trujillo Zoological Museum

The Trujillo Museum of Unnatural Zoological Horrors

Every major city in Peru should have at least a couple of museums Trujillo does well in that respect, what with the grand Museo de Arqueologia, the private located-in-a-petrol-station-basement Museo Cassinelli Mazzei, the...

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Three Essential Peru Archaeology Tours

A guest post by Kaitlin McMichael Peru is well known as the heartland of the Incas, the greatest pre-Columbian civilization in South America But it is also the bedrock of ancient civilizations pre-dating the Incas by millennia...

Museo del Juguete, Trujillo

Time and Toys in Trujillo’s Museo del Juguete

The Museo del Juguete in Trujillo, the only toy museum in Peru and one of the first of its kind in South America, is an intriguing cultural space in the heart of the city’s colonial core The museum, which opened to the...