Hey there world travelers. Hey there. I'm Tanya and I'm Dave and we are Turn It
Up World. Welcome to . . . Lima Peru! I fell.
That's right we are in Lima Peru, well actually back in Lima Peru. Back again, yes. I know last
time we were here we actually didn't get a chance to explore much of the city but this
time, this time, we are definitely going to be exploring quite a bit of this gorgeous
city. Absolutely and we are actually in the heart of Lima and really the
birthplace right now in Plaza Mayor. Yes, also called
Plaza de Armas and we were here, if you recall, in the evening one night. It was dark beautiful,
it's gorgeous at night, very gorgeous and you guys should check out that whole series. We put
together a whole series of Peru starting with a little bit in Lima and then did a whole
trek through Cusco. We'll put the link somewhere so you guys should definitely
check that out, but he is absolutely right. It is stunningly beautiful here at night with
the lights. Oh it's just amazing right. And there is great history to this as well.
Back in, back in 1535 Francisco Pizarro actually founded the city effectively
here, now it was part of basically a conquest. He was a conquistador who
conquered the Incas and the indigenous, you know, people of Peru and really
built Lima and planned Lima, and actually this square, this plaza, is classic Spanish
plaza, yes, you really feel like you're in Spain, it's, it's some historians have
said that this is actually even more Spanish than some of the ones over in
Spain. It's just really incredible, the design and everything about it. Yeah and we're gonna
show you not just this beautiful Plaza but some of the other incredible things
here in Lima Peru. I think we should just get this day started. Don't you think so? I think so. Let's rock and roll.
We're now in the historic Centro District of Lima and this is Plaza San
Martín and San Martin is considered the liberator of Lima. Actually in 1821
he helped liberate Peru from the Spaniards and this plaza was dedicated
in his honor, and to the honor of the liberation of Peru, in 1921. It's a really
really cool plaza. A lot of activity going on. You can hear horns behind me and
there's French, beautiful French buildings all around as well. It's really
cool. A fun place to check out.
Another really cool thing about being down here in the Plaza San Martín
are all these amazing flowers that look like carnations and, if you could smell,
the smells those flowers it's quite impressive
just the grounds that are so well-kept here the beautiful architecture that
goes on down here, David's absolutely right this is definitely a place you want
to come check out for sure just to either have lunch there's a lot
of cafes that are scattered throughout even shopping right around the corner
from here so it's a great place to start your your Lima trek if you're coming
here to Lima just to kind of experience some of the history as well as the
beautiful ambiance that surrounds it.
Oh, hey fancy seeing you again no we were lucky enough today to be able to
witness the changing of the guard, which happens here every day around noontime
and this street was packed full of people. Now guess who else lives in this
place? The President of Peru lives here must be nice to be the king but just
look at the beautiful architectural detail that's going on in there
this place is stunningly amazing and I'm so happy that we had a chance to come
back here to explore Lima Peru.
So one of the best ways to get here to Plaza de Armas and most of the times are
gonna be staying if you come to Lima you'll be staying in Miraflores right so
one of the best ways to get here is by the Metropolitano, the bus, yeah the bus
system is actually really good and it's super cheap yes right it's
basically it cost us about five pesos together, five soles, you still think we're Mexico, yes exactly
correction five soles, right, we're not in Mexico we're in Peru and five soles is about $1.70
or so. It's pretty darn cheap. It's very cheap. Now one thing about the bus
though, it can get super super packed yeah super packed, Dave was literally
rubbing bummies with like folks that were just standing on they're holding their
bars and there is no I don't know they don't have like a restriction of
capacity because it was crazy packed yeah it was crazy packed and you do want
to be careful too in any of the buses and subways in any of these you know any
place really when it is this packed just be careful with your belongings make sure
you have your wallets and things secure as well maybe in zip pockets and things
like that, yeah, just be careful, and take your backpacks if you're gonna have them on your back you
might want to flip those around and put them in your front just to give yourself
that extra protection and like Dave was saying it can happen anywhere I mean any
place where there's a high population of tourists any place there's like a high
population of people in a confined space you can definitely get your junk taken.
Check out this building behind me it's really cool the architecture is
incredible it's actually the Archbishop's house here, Palace here
in Lima, and I have a question for you when do you think it was built? Because
it's really interesting let us know in the comments and don't google it take
your best guess we'll let you know at the end of the video.
David, what is this beautiful, beautiful creation behind me? What is this?
Well my dear they're balconies, those are balconies. Lima is definitely known for amazing balconies.
They're carved out of cedar, mahogany, wow, absolutely incredible, that's so impressive, they're so
beautiful, yeah and they have something of the the Spanish influence and that's
you can see that all around Plaza de Armas including these beautiful
balconies and all the detail that comes along with it, yes absolutely gorgeous and
supposedly there's 1,600 of them, 1,600, across Lima, wow that's an incredible number and it's
I think they're right around the period of 17, 18th century, well just you can see
the detail and the beauty and I will say this the last time we were here was
kind of at night I don't know if I really captured the great detail that
you see in these balconies from the nuances, it's just absolutely
stunning but this place with the sun shining those balconies are amazing.
All right so hold on one second this beautiful building behind us
that's City Hall that is Lima's City Hall look how beautiful that building is. Wow, that's
City Hall? Yes that is City Hall. It's incredible I
mean that has got to be one of the nicest city halls I have ever seen. Right, how
would you like to work in a place like that that is gorgeous and actually if
you notice there's a couple more balconies and since we just spoke about
the balconies one more thing we think is important to know that they're doing a
major preservation on most of these balconies because of the history because
they're made of wood they they're trying to make sure they don't rot and wither
or deteriorate because they're just stunning and it would be awesome to keep
them around forever. So this gorgeous fountain here behind me I am so happy to
be back to see this fountain well before this fountain was here there was one
built I believe it was in the late 1500's and this one was built in 16 late 1600's
or actually rebuilt and it's just spectacular now we've heard that during
their Peru's Independence which is July 28th of 2020 or I think I heard it was
somewhere on the fourth Sunday of the month of July they fill this fountain
with Pisco. I love Pisco Sours so I might have to bring the sour if they
supply the Pisco, but it's absolutely gorgeous an interesting fact that before
any of this was here there was actually this Plaza de Armas area was used for
bullfighting ah oh my gosh a gallow was right where this fountain was a
gallow and you know what a gallow is hang it was kind of creepy kind of scary but
it's very cool to see all of this beauty here today.
Behind me is the Aliaga House. It's actually the oldest house in all of the
Americas, which is really incredible. It was built back in 1535 and I gotta say
it looks looks today it looks incredible today, I mean look at that it's absolutely beautiful.
Viva Lima!
One complaint, there're a lot of traffic here. Yes, it's funny
they say Mexico City has a lot of traffic but Lima, Lima is right up there with
lots of traffic which is probably why the bus might be a nice quick bet. There are
so many cars honking horns like that's the way they communicate it's like hi
honk, how you doing honk honk, oh yeah, it's a symphony, a symphony of horns, masterful, a masterpiece
A very quick fair warning when you are riding in an Uber just focus on the beautiful things around you don't focus
on the driver because they drive a little crazy around here, right, absolutely a little crazy
They're very good drivers. I will say that though and you have to be. You have to have great instincts.
Super close, look how close
There it is
Y'all so we are now freshened up we got back after an amazing day and we got a
recommendation for a restaurant that we are dying to try tonight it's an authentic
Peruvian restaurant what is the name of that it's called Mama Olla, Mama Olla
yeah and it was recommended by our concierge of our hotel, she said it's a
really tasty place traditional food which is what we requested so I'm ready to try
this place yeah let's do it, so we made it to Mama Olla yeah I'm pretty
excited and already kicking off this evening with a couple of cocktails yes
the traditional of course is the pisco sour which probably is about 20.5 soles
What did you get? It looks pretty strong over there. I went for the
traditional Johnnie Walker Red, nothing special here for sure and it also was
20.5 soles. Cheers. I don't know some apparent reason I think that one would knock you
more on your butt than this one here.
That's just like I remember this is it's actually great to be back to have this I
mean I remember the first time we came here what eight months ago I mean got to
the hotel it was really late and the staff was really accommodating and they
actually opened the restaurant just for us and our first pisco sour, yeah
they gave us pisco sour they made us some lomo saltado, which was great.
I think we were there what like 2:00, 3:00 in the morning or
something, exactly 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, it was pretty crazy
all right so we narrowed it down and we're actually gonna split these just
because the portion sizes seem to be right up our alley yeah and then what
are we getting? The conchitas a la parmesana doce something . . . doces unidades para dos
So it's actually made for two it's an appetizer of scallops with a nice
parmesan cheese I think this like you said twelve pieces and it's made for two
so that's really nice I think that's about 40, yeah it's 45, 45 soles, so it's close to 14
almost $14. Cuarenta y cinco. There you go. Wow he's getting good. Oh yeah, really good.
Then of course for the main we're actually gonna go for the Lomo Saltado,
which is something that we love anyway so we're gonna stick to what we know
with the papas fritas. And that's cuarenta y uno. There we go. $41. There we
go. Look at that. There you go. So we wanted to mention
while we're waiting for our food that we actually just kind of realized you know
the peak season is when? It's what December through, is it, April? December through
April, right, and so coming right about November is a really nice time to come
when you're just missing the busy high season but you're also starting to get
into some of that sunshine that happens here versus the typical overcast that you
tend to get on a normal off season, yeah, we had a lot of sun today that's for
sure, yeah definitely a lot of sun, oh yeah look at this, I'm like a red lobster, yeah what
you need to make sure you do is use extra sunblock I have a little tiny
thing of sunblock all the time with you if you can don't be stupid you know
living in Texas I thought hey I can take the Lima sun, no I can't ok, the sun is really
strong here so put on sunblock because you might turn out like a lobster and I
got a lot of red going on here. A lot of red.
I didn't expect them to be so large, wow, and they look really delicious. They look awesome. The right amount
of parmesan cheese just kind of right on top, just look at them just like right in the
scallop shell, right in the shell, they look so cool, I know I almost you almost wanna like keep this
like a form of art. I don't know. The poor scallop, I got to eat them though. Hmm you can definitely
taste that parmesan cheese just really kind of taking over now it was big
It almost had a little slimy coating on the top of it but, I don't know,
after that second bite into that slimy coating it really tasted, into the slimy coating, it really had like a slimy
coating. I will say it's very fresh, you actually, I had a little sand in mine, oh that's really fresh, so a little
crunchy. I had a crunchy scallop with parmesan, but I mean that's that's part
of being fresh, you know, it's right out of the ocean, that's true, and it's
really good, it had plenty of lime in it too I must say, oh this is like the whole meal man, I think so,
look how much there is, I mean it's no wonder the appetizer costs the way it costs
because you're getting these really giant sized scallops, twelve of them, so you have like six each
basically, yeah cuarenta y cinco, cuarenta y cinco, exactly. David's plate. My plate.
Give me some of that.
Kiss? hmm
I'm stuffed. I'm stuffed too. So, let me ask you, like we always ask every place we
go, what do you think of this place? What do you think of it? It was good, but not
dance worthy, but I'd give a little shimmy, oh I'd give it a little shimmy, a little half shimmy, maybe
not a full dance, but a half shimmy. I thought it was
good but I would say it wasn't like a wow meal for me, yeah I agree with you, but
because of all that food I think it's time for us to call it quits. We had a
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Behind me is the Archbishop's Palace where the Archbishop
of Lima lives and it's actually an amazing building just look at that. The architecture is incredible.