Lima Shanty Town Tour Local Life Experience

Highlights

  • Learn about daily life from residents and the challenges they face

  • Visit a kindergarten and local artisans to hear their stories about their home

  • Hassle-free round-trip transport from Barranco, Miraflores, and San Isidro

Summary

Meet your guide at your central Lima hotel and head towards the shantytown. Receive a short briefing about basic guidelines for the tour before heading in. Wander the alleyways and listen to informative commentary from your guide about the history of the community and its residents. Meet local residents throughout the tour to get a deeper look at their daily lives. Stop at a kindergarten and a silverware factory and listen to stories about the developments within the community. Walk up the ‘yellow stairs’ to take in the astounding dimensions of the shantytown as well as the views of the city below before heading back your hotel to conclude the tour.

Tour info

Duration
3 hours 30 minutes
Group Size
Pricing (From)
Commentary
Meeting Point
Dropoff location

Why take this tour?

Discover a different side of Lima during this tour of one of the city’s shantytowns. Meet some of the residents of this community during this walking tour as you learn about the challenges they face. Visit a kindergarten and some local artisans to hear stories about daily life in the shantytown. Part of the proceeds go back to helping the community and its residents.

What’s included?

  • Hotel or Apartament pickup and drop-off from Barranco, Miraflores or San Isidro only

  • Snacks

  • Professional guide

  • Gratuities

  • Food and drinks

  • If your hotel is outside the pickup zone, you can pay an additional fee to be picked up from your hotel

Things to know

Before you book

  • Duration: 3h 30m

  • Mobile tickets accepted

  • Instant confirmation

Covid Policy

  • Regular temperature checks for staff
  • Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas

Cancellation Policy

    For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

Operated by:

Haku Tours

About operator:

Haku Tours works as a non profit organization, is also an 100% Local tour company. The whole profit from our tours go towars to help people with less resources of Lima city (families from Shanty Towns) Taking our tours we guaranteed you will have fun, learn en get UNIQUE experiences. We go in really small tour groups (4 to maximun 6 ppl)The difference among others is: AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE TAKING YOUR TOUR WITH US YOU ARE HELPING MANY LOCAL FAMILIES, to know more about this we invited you to visit our Humanity Projects blog page.

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