Nearly 500 years ago the Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizzaro destroyed one of the most highly
advanced civilizations that has ever existed. Arriving Peru in September of 1532, it took him only two short
months to capture and later killing the leader of the Inca Empire, Atahuallpa. Having control of the Incas, Pizarro
set out and looted the empire of all its gold. With the riches he built the city of Lima in 1535 which became the capital
of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Still to this day you can see the Colonial Lima that was built during the
Conquistadores all but friendly arrival into this coastal region. Though most of the gold was melted down and
shipped off to her majesty in Spain there are still some precious artifacts that were undiscovered and can be
viewed in Lima's Gold Museum. If any thanks can be given to the greedy Spanish invaders, it would be toward that
they found little or no interest in the pottery work of the Incas. Fortunately, thousands of ceramic pieces were
untouched and had no value to the looting invaders of the new found land. Today you can see more than 45,000
of these magnificently crafted pieces of art at the Larco Herrera Museum. We highly recommend that you take a
few hours to visit either or both of these museums to get a better understanding of the craftsmanship of Peru's
forgotten Pre-Columbian Civilizations. If your taste for archaeology has not quite yet been sufficed there is the
Pachacamac site which dates back over 1000 years and is a short distance from Lima.
Pre Columbian Wacos of the Larco Herrera Museum
HOTELS & TRANSFERS
|
CLASS TYPE |
SINGLE |
DOUBLE |
TRIPLE |
| BARATO |
$ 89.00 |
$ 69.00 |
$ 59.00 |
| ECONOMY |
$109.00 |
$ 79.00 |
$ 69.00 |
| TOURIST |
$119.00 |
$ 99.00 |
$ 89.00 |
| FIRST |
$179.00 |
$129.00 |
$109.00 |
| EXECUTIVE |
$269.00 |
$169.00 |
$149.00 |
Class of service Includes :
One night hotel and airport transfers.
MUSEUMS & TOURS IN LIMA
|
TOUR |
SINGLE |
DOUBLE |
TRIPLE |
| GOLD MUSEUM |
$ 79.00 |
$ 69.00 |
$ 59.00 |
| LARCO HERRERA |
$ 79.00 |
$ 69.00 |
$ 59.00 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM |
$ 69.00 |
$ 59.00 |
$ 59.00 |
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM |
$ 69.00 |
$ 59.00 |
$ 59.00 |
| COLONIAL CITY TOUR |
$ 59.00 |
$ 49.00 |
$ 49.00 |
| CITY & MUSEUM COMBO |
$ 89.00 |
$ 79.00 |
$ 69.00 |
| PACHACAMAC SITE |
$ 89.00 |
$ 69.00 |
$ 59.00 |
| INDIAN MARKET SHOPPING |
$ 59.00 |
$ 39.00 |
$ 29.00 |
| PRIVATE CAR 1/2 DAY |
$ 79.00 |
$ 49.00 |
$ 39.00 |
| CARAL FULL DAY ( see below ) |
$300.00 |
$225.00 |
$175.00 |
All tours includes: guide, tour, transfers & entry fee into museum.
CARAL FULL DAY TRIP
This archaeological site is located in the Valley of Supe, on the province of Barranca, Main Region Lima. At 182 kilometers North of Lima City. Plus 23 kms. East of the Panamericana Highway. The citadel is located on an aluvionic plateau, at the left bank of the Supe River. altitude over sea level: 350 meters. This First civilization of Peru and America was established between 3,000 to 2,500 B.C. It covers an extension of 66 hectars in which there are 2 zones distinguished. One main central nucleus and another peripherial around. The first zone shows moumental architectonic structures.
Four kinds of residential different buildings, residential unties of elites, 2 circular plazas in different inferior levels, as well as massive meeting places. Meanwhile the preipherial external zones show as livng quartiers.s up domestic use inities, distributed in a way of islands as for livng houses quartiers. In the building of the main recints there has been used stone walls bounded with arcilla. In some secondary recints the walls are made of some organic material, stuccoed with fine arcilla and painted red, white or yellow. Ther is observed a massive use of "shicras" (Vegetal fiber fabricated sacks) .Other areas were built up with walls of artificially rounded stones, linked with arcilla and clay and painted white, red and yellow, according to different periods of this place. The technological advance reached in agricuktural and fishing systems have been the most important, showing this in the importance of the cotton work, which permited the manufacture of clothing and fishing nets for masssive fishing, generating in this wasy an specializtion in each of these activities, stimulating -then- the development of and ecnomy of intertrading between the cities and the groups of farmers and fishermen groups. In this way there took place and accumulation of production and -as well- the sharing of work, base od development of the more complex mankind societies. The benefits derived of this social production were distributed in uneven way, thus generating the establishment of social stratus od different hierarchies. The premature development of the people of Caral trned this civilization in the mos ancient of America, that achieved an advance withourt any precents so far known, all of this in absolute isolation. Differnt from other ancint civilation focuses like Mesopotamia, Egypt, India which interchanged knowledge nd experience in between them.
The forms of social and political organization of the Caral settlements were trascendental in time and space and were the base of the political states of the Central Andes
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