Tarma lies at 3500 m above sealevel on the eastern slopes of the
Andes. The city, in the department of JunÃn, 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".
