I remember big protests last year in the news.
I’m thinking of heading to Lima for the first time in January. Are things back to normal now?
I remember big protests last year in the news.
I’m thinking of heading to Lima for the first time in January. Are things back to normal now?
Even if there were protests now, it would only be down in the center where you likely wouldn’t be staying. Miraflores and Barranco (the nice neighborhoods) are really far from the center and quite peaceful. Also, I think that the protests in Peru in general were blown way out of proportion like the media usually does. At least this is what I gathered from talking to people there. This year in June and July I spent one month in Lima and one month in Cusco. Everything was just fine.
I was in Lima the day of them declaring a state of emergency and ousting the president. The issue was mobility. The protests would shut down roads and Cusco was largely shutdown for weeks. In Barranco where i was it was just another day.