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Peru has some beautiful sights.
On the down side, even though Guzman is in jail, Sendero Luminoso periodically resurges and terrorism is never far away. In 1996, SL operatives attacked and took over the Japanese Ambassador's residence in Lima and held the attendees hostage till they were rescued by Peruvian Special Forces troops, along with some friends from Panama.
Some Peruvians like Americans and some do not. In 1992, the Peruvian Air Force shot a US C-130 to pieces in a "misunderstanding". Their cooperation in the drug war has been an on again, off again proposition. The rich in the country get richer, and the poor get poorer, unless they become involved in the lucrative drug trade.
Due to the severe poverty and unemployment among the underclass, street crime is significant.
Lima and other areas of Peru periodically have outbreaks of diseases like cholera, and sanitary conditions are not what you may be accustomed to.
I would be careful where I went, what I ate and drank, who I was hanging out with, and very well attuned to what was going on around me at all times. I would avoid becoming intoxicated to the point where I was not fully in control of my faculties. Keep your SA on high, dress like the locals, don't be loud, especially in English, remain in Condition Yellow or higher, and have a ball.
Take care, be safe.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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