{"id":11300,"date":"2015-11-04T18:18:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T23:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=11300"},"modified":"2018-09-26T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T17:20:34","slug":"download-free-audio-tours-of-the-historic-center-of-lima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2015\/download-free-audio-tours-of-the-historic-center-of-lima\/11300\/","title":{"rendered":"Download free audio tours of the Historic Center of Lima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself in Lima&#8217;s historic downtown for some sightseeing with just a guidebook,\u00a0orienting yourself with that\u00a0tiny map and small\u00a0print on that wispy thin paper\u00a0can be\u00a0cumbersome.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of alternatives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You could walk just a few yards off the Plaza de Armas to our office and arrange<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/lima-private-tours\/\"> a guided tour of Lima.<\/a>\u00a0You would quickly realize why\u00a0UNESCO declared the City of Kings a\u00a0<em>World Heritage Site in 1988.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m16!1m12!1m3!1d3901.9704103749327!2d-77.03320665044717!3d-12.045556858966219!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!2m1!1sfertur+peru+travel+lima+map!5e0!3m2!1sen!2s!4v1446674833014\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another way to go, if you have a\u00a0smartphone or tablet with an Internet connection at your hotel, is to\u00a0download full audio-visual guided tours\u00a0for seven\u00a0attraction\u00a0routes\u00a0in\u00a0Lima&#8217;s\u00a0Spanish Colonial Center.<\/p>\n<p>The App is called &#8220;Audio Guides: The City Speaks&#8221; and offers\u00a0interactive menus and\u00a0Google location maps with synced narration\u00a0in English or Spanish. The tours have been available since\u00a02011, the creation of Peru&#8217;s\u00a0Ministry of Tourism (MINCETUR) and the Municipality of Lima.<\/p>\n<p>The tours include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/audioguias.peru.travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11310 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/audio-guides-the-city-speaks-historic-downtown-lima.jpg\" alt=\"Audio Guides:The City Speaks, Historic Downtown Lima\" width=\"321\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/audio-guides-the-city-speaks-historic-downtown-lima.jpg 321w, https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/audio-guides-the-city-speaks-historic-downtown-lima-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Plaza Mayor, palaces and churches.<\/li>\n<li>Santos, heroes and boulevards.<\/li>\n<li>Historic architecture and Rimac\u00a0River<\/li>\n<li>Balconies, San Pedro Church and cultural centers<\/li>\n<li>St. Augustine, theaters and houses<\/li>\n<li>From Plaza San Martin to University Park<\/li>\n<li>Art, museums and parks<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The audio guides can be downloaded from MINCETUR&#8217;s\u00a0website: <a href=\"http:\/\/audioguias.peru.travel\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/audioguias.peru.travel<\/a>\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself in Lima&#8217;s historic downtown for some sightseeing with just a guidebook,\u00a0orienting yourself with that\u00a0tiny map and small\u00a0print on that wispy thin paper\u00a0can be\u00a0cumbersome. Here are a couple of alternatives&#8230; You could walk just a few yards off the Plaza de Armas to our office and arrange a guided tour of Lima.\u00a0You&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[786,787],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-11300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-tips","tag-audio-tour-lima","tag-travel-app","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=11300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}