At one time, Lima, Peru was the place to be in South America. Founded as the City of Kings by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535, for three centuries Lima was the administrative center for Spain’s possessions in South America.
Today, Lima is not the center of South American life, but it is still an excellent city to visit. With more than one-third of Peru’s population, Lima has 8.2 million people. Lima’s climate is quite mild, despite being located in the Tropics. The average low temperatures range from 58°F (14°C) to 68°F (20°C) and the highs average around 78°F, with 32°C (90°F) considered extremely high.
In 1998, the historic old town in Lima was designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Plaza Mayor, with the 16th century Cathedral and the Presidential Palace, and the catacombs of the Convento de San Francisco are a must-see for any visitor to the Peruvian capital.
The good news for those looking to travel to Peru is that you don’t need to be a king to be able to afford to fly there. TACA has some excellent round-trip flights to Lima, Peru that make the city very, very accessible, especially if you factor in how cheaply one can stay and eat in the city.
Paris has a tower. Seattle has a needle. Parisians like to drink coffee in cafes. Seattlites drink a lot of coffee. Paris has a river. Seattle has a sound. Paris is one of the great cities in Europe. Seattle is one of the great cities in North America. It is a marriage made in heaven and now the two cities will be connected like never before.
You have to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It is a national law to pretend you are Irish for the day. You have no other choice. You do have a few choices for how to spend March 17 this year, however. You could spend the day in a dive bar in Hoboken drinking green beer and listening to people around you who you can’t understand because they are so drunk. Or you could spend it in a dive bar in Dublin, drinking good beer and listening to people around you speaking with an accent that you can’t understand.
As someone who spent his formative years in the Sunshine Sate, it is with some authority that I can tell you that Florida is one crazy story after another. When there aren’t political elections gone awry, alligators chasing after senior citizens and people finding new ways to make a home out of land that was designed to be a swamp, there are stories about all kinds of absurd things. Florida is a light that attracts the crazy moths of the world.
If you ever want to get a sense of old world Europe, you should spend some time in Vienna. The capital of Austria is dripping with history that dates back to Celtic times and takes you through the times of the Roman, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian Empires. Sitting in the oldest part of the city – Innere Stadt – drinking coffee and munching on pastries, you can almost breathe the history. You can picture the generations before you walking the same streets and stopping at the same cafes. Your imagination can take you back to another time, another era.
Texas is a big place. You can drive your car from one side to the other in about the same time as it would take to drive across a large swath of Europe. If you ever want to feel the rush of being alone, head on out to west Texas and drive at night. You’ll hardly see a soul and you’ll hardly hear anything other than the country music coming from your radio.
If you like order and tidiness you’ll love Singapore. For a country that is the second most densely populated in the world, Singapore exists with little signs of the chaos or disorder you find in other large cities. Because of the limited space that exists in the city-state, every last inch has been planned and the result is a city designed to house maximum people with minimal hassle.
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Sometimes the most joy in life comes from doing completely random things. Wake up in the morning, close your eyes and pick an outfit out of your closet. Don’t pay any attention to whether or not it matches. Or get in your car and just make right hand turns for an hour and see where you end up. Or pick up a globe, spin it around and decide to make your next trip the destination where your finger points.
Do you reckon that people in sunny, warm climates ever feel the urge to visit someplace that is cloudy and gray? As we search for travel deals each and every day we often come across trips to warm weather places, but never have we come across a deal that promotes how cloudy and miserable a destination is. Maybe someone could fill this market by specializing in trips to dreary weather locations.