Peru Travel Insurance

Basic Information About Peru

Some important information on Peru Travel Insurance that we think you’ll want to know before you travel.

Peru Security Measures for travelers

The decision to enter Peru is your choice and you are equally responsible for your personal safety abroad. However, since we care about your safety and security, we provide you credible information in our Travel Advice to help you to make well-informed decisions when you travel out of Canada.

Risk Level

Peru – Exercise a high degree of caution

Due to serious crime, social conflicts and strikes that could occur throughout the country, exercise a high degree of caution in Peru.

Peru Healthcare

There are public and private hospitals in Peru. The public healthcare in Peru is insufficient and poor due to a serious lack of funding. As a result, expats and visitors in Peru prefer to use private hospitals. You also need to have some forms of Peru travel insurance or private health insurance and you also need to travel with enough money to cover potential costs because some hospitals may require cash payments.

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Peru Travel Insurance News

It was over two years since Al and Kathy Kasatkin last heard from Kimberlee their daughter. They had to travel from Abbotsford to Lima in Peru to bring their grandchildren home and also get justice for Kimberlee.

Al, Kimberlee’s father, said he does not know where she is. When I say she is here, it is in a spiritual sense, he added. Al and Kathy believe that Kimberlee has been killed. Kathy, Kimberlee’s mother said they just want to have her day in court, that’s the only way to get the truth out of Christopher.

Kimberly was fiercely in love with Christopher Franz Bettocchi, a citizen of Peru she met on Vancouver Island while studying acupuncture. The couple spent time in African and then settled in Miroflores, a district of Lima and they had children together.

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