Get to Lima on Friday. Take a hotel in Miraflores or San Isidro. Have lunch at La Plazita (yes, spelled this way, not La Placita, as it should in correct Spanish), then spend the afternoon in Barranco, the trendy and bohemian neighbourhood south of Miraflores. Don’t forget to visit the MATE photography museum and stroll on the streets facing the sea. Have dinner at Central (you should make a reservation one or two months in advance or attempt to get a seat at the bar), which, according to some international guides, ranks 3rd in the world in terms of cuisine and ambiance (yes, 3rd in the entire world). Spend Saturday in San Isidro, the posh neighbourhood in Lima. Go to El Olivar, have lunch and a drink in Lima 27 or Felix. Do some shopping at Larcomar in the afternoon, if you are keen on spending some money in a small and exclusive mall besides the Ocean. In order to mix some Italian food with Peruvian cuisine, have dinner at Symposium, a restaurant that would be classified as excellent even among the most appreciated restaurants in Florence or Milan. Then, devote your Sunday morning to take a look at Plaza de Armas in central Lima and pay a visit the Cathedral, where the great conquistador Francisco Pizarro is buried, after being assasined by Almagro’s followers in the site where the Government Palace is built, in the very Plaza de Armas. Two blocks away from Plaza de Armas you should take a brief tour of the 16th Century Convent of Santo Domingo, where you can see the two beautiful Sevillan style cloisters, the osary and climb the bell tower to take a bird’s-eye view of Lima. Sunday lunch you could have in Tanta, one block away from the Convent and, after returning to San Isidro to do some additional shopping in Conquistadores street, have dinner at either Astrid y Gastón, located in the beautifully renovated XVII century Casa Moreyra, or in Statera, one of the new fantastic restaurants in Lima, where every dish is a sophisticated surprise with local identity and where you can taste a black “butter” on your loaf of bread while having your pre-lunch drink - a black “butter” that seems, and has the consistency of, butter, but that it actually is an Amazonian vegetable. Finally, you can go back to your hotel and rest for a Monday departure to Cusco and Machu Picchu or the Southern jewell of Arequipa, the white city.