Tarma

Tarma lies at 3500 m above sealevel on the eastern slopes of the Andes. The city, in the department of Junín, is close to the highest Andean peaks, but also close to the jungle-covered mountains at the edge of the Amazon basin. It's a nice town with about 120,000 inhabitants. Numerous, hardly discovered Inca ruins can be found in the neighbourhood. Tarma is known for its flowers, and is locally called "the Pearl of the Andes".

The cathedral in Tarma

Flower field near Tarma

Street in Tarma