Lima and Cusco are stops on both our 1971 & 1973 trips. We miss flights from Lima both times. In 1973 we booked a week long cruise on the upper Amazon, but our incoming flight arrives after the one and only flight to the Amazon port leaves. There is no trouble deciding what to do with the time; it gives us more days in the former Inca capital, Cusco, which is one of the most interesting places we have ever seen.
Lima has a lot to see too. The Congress on the Plaza de Bolivar is closed, but we are able to talk a guard into letting us see the interior. The Museo of the Inquisition has many gristly torture scenes. The Torre Tagle is now government offices in an old palace with fantastic wood work. The Plaza de Armas has a statue of Pizarro, the Cathedral, and the the Governors Palace, complete with guard changing ceremonies.
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