Lima has grown from 600,000 to about 8 million in the last 25 years. Many businesses constructed elevated guard houses on their building to counter terrorist attacks in the ninety’s. These terrorist attacks in the outlying areas are one of the main reasons Lima’s population increased so fast. Military presence is evident and the central square is well used.
The city is quite colorful and clean. Traffic was a nightmare as we crawled for an hour at 5:00 to just go a couple of miles.
Lima is a beautiful city, but we were ready to board the ship when the day was done.
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