One last busy day in Lima - part I [November 2025]

My flight out of Lima was departing at 11pm. So before heading home I had one full day to cover more ground.

We got in the night before from Arequipa.

By the time we got to the hotel it was after 10pm. Took a couple pics of the perky lobby at Centro by Casa Andina Miraflores and crashed.

Hotel was fine. Good location. Nice breakfast. Basic rooms that felt like the building might once have been a dormitory.

In the morning I had a tour to Museo Pachacamac starting at 9:30. The site is about 50 minutes south of the city along the coast. The distance is only 24km, so as implied by the math, the traffic is slow going. And the scenes are not particularly beautiful.

Heavy vehicles, grey skies, dust, and the hallmark brown brick buildings in varying stages of construction.

The museum itself, though, is great. Nice design. Informative and interesting exhibits. A lot to take in and learn especially if, like me, you weren't fully up to speed on the pre-Incan times around Lima.

There is also the gift shop and cafe. Given the hour, both were pretty quiet. I'm sure if you passed by there an hour later it would be more lively as the various school groups we saw around the site made their way through.

Heading out to the exterior complex, you're again enveloped in a world of grey and beige. We could have taken more time to walk through the site, but I opted for a drive by. I can see how the site would be of more interest to those who lean into archeology / history / anthropology. But I was just as happy to keep it moving and get to the next stage of the tour, which I'll cover in the next post.

I was more fascinated by the modest developments across the way.

Grim. 1200 years from now will there be a museum dedicated to the lifestyles and culture of those folks? I'd be a little more interested in heading over there and seeing what's going on. Next leg of my tour would be more along those lines.