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 city is
close to Huancayo.
