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Reproductions of Vintage Travel Advertisements – From USA to Peru via Pan American Travel Announcement Print for Advertise on Travel Agents Walls nd Tourism Brochures. Old Travel Illustrations and Paintings Posters for Advertising Purposes in 1950s.
WHAT’S SPECIAL – Peru is an archeologist’s dream: the coastal desert is littered with shell-mounds daitng back to 3,000 BC. Near the present day city of Trujillo are the ruins of Chan Chan, believed to have been the capital of the great pre-Inca Chimu civilization, builders of the Great Wall of Peru across the desert plains and deep into the Western Andes. Cuzco, center of an empire that dominated the central Andes for nearly three centuries, and Machu Picchu, built by the Incas fleeing from the Spanish conquerors, are awe inspiring. Scarcely a month goes by without some archeological discovery and legends about lost cities and undiscovered treasures are still plentiful. But modern Per is also one of the most sophisticated and conservative countries in South America, proud of its traditions and customs.
Temperatures along the coast are coled by the Humboldt Current – the thermometer rarely rises above 80 or falls below 50. Lima sits under a massive low cloudbank most of the time, but it hardly ever rains. There ise considerable mist and damp during the winter (June – September). Summer lasts from December – April. The jungle region is humid and wrm; the mountain areas are generally cooler than the coast with a rainy season lasting throughout the summer. Best time to visit Lima is January – April; the mountain and jungle regions are at their best from June – October. Lima lies in an earthquake zone; the last major tremor was 31 May, 1970.
