Lima can be a heartless city; big, brash and hazy. The epitome of this brash urbanism is the site of Huaca Huallamarca, an ancient pyramid surrounded by the high rise buildings of the sprawl of Lima city. But being the commericial centre of Peru, the abundant mining wealth has resulted in patches of upscale metropolis … Continue reading
Peru is home to the potato. Fact. The first potato was proudly farmed here over 8000 years ago using ingenius irrigation methods to utilise the hilly landscape of the Andes. Then the Spaniards came in the mid 1900s and inbetween conquering land and stealing gold, they thought the potato would be pretty useful and took … Continue reading
South Americans in general don’t quite know where Vietnam is, which is fair enough really because they are on opposite sides of the world and don’t have much to do with one another. Somehow, some Vietnamese ended up in the heart of Lima, Peru and opened up an awesome ceviche restaurant – its name aptly … Continue reading
