Entries tagged ‘Lima’
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The Marketplace That Ate Lima’s Beach
Agua Dulce, Lima’s most popular waterfront getaway, now has so many vendors that it’s become more of a shopping center than a respite from the city.
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Two Weeks in Photos
From street performers in Lima to volunteer ambulance squads in Bangkok, pictures taken by our bloggers on the streets of their cities.
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The Many Roles of Lima’s Informal Taxi Drivers
In a city with nearly 20 times as many taxis as New York, the capital’s informal cabbies wear many hats, from fish hauler to roving psychologist.
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Gridlock Creates a Captive Audience for Lima’s Street Performers
The city’s economic boom has created a traffic nightmare — or, if you juggle knives for a living, a twice-daily rush-hour audience that can’t help but watch your show.
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Two Weeks in Photos
From the legal drug markets of Nairobi to the happy food trucks of Manila, our fortnightly round-up of photos from our bloggers.
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Amid Choreographed Chaos, an Aeropostale Knock-Off is Born
Lima’s garment district is a densely packed barrage of sellers and laborers, churning out fashion for the masses in a process that’s part factory system, part alchemy.
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Beneath Its Polished Surface, a Black-Market Shopping Center Thrives
Polvos Azules, one of Lima’s busiest shopping complexes, is nearly indistinguishable from a regular mall. You’d never guess that almost all of it is illegal.
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Two Weeks in Photos
Our fortnightly roundup of photos from our blogs, from street vendors in Bangkok to moto-taxi drivers in Accra.
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For Lima’s Bus Drivers, Congestion, Competition and Chaos
A population boom, a rising middle class, and a surge of cheap cars from Asia have turned Lima’s streets into a free-for-all — and bus driving into a combat sport.
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Lima Roars to Life, Thanks, In Part, To Its Informal Settlements
The Peruvian capital of Manuel Vigo’s youth was a quiet and dodgy place ringed by informal settlements. Today, those settlements have become the city, and the streets crackle with energy.
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