Dedalo Arte y Artesania, often touted (with some reason) as a "all-inclusive" souvenir mega store is more like a gallery offering a wide variety of arts and crafts, all hand-made by the local artisans and not your usual line-up of "I Love Peru" ("I Love NYC", fill the blank) mugs, t-shirts and Bob Marley posters, more often than not made in China. Let's start from the location. Dedalo Arte y Artesania is situated in the choicest of Barranco parts, in Jirón Sáenz Peña. Suffice is to mention the other buildings located in the immediate vicinity of Dedalo Arte y Artesania: the residence of the Ambassador of Spain, Hotel B, the most expensive (that's not to say the best) hotel in Lima, the only one that belongs to Relais & Châteaux network, another boutique hotel Casa Republica Barranco, the headquarters of the leading group of real estate companies Grupo Octagon, and the apartment of the most famous Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in literature, whose apartment is right around the corner, on Malecón Pazos (that is, when the writer lives in LIma, which is about 6 months a year). Dedalo Arte y Artesania is divided into several shopping areas offering all kinds of hand-made jewelry, traditional Peruvian crafts such as ceramics and textiles, ornaments, household items and home decor, bric-a-brac, figurines, books, toys, dolls, clothing items (shawls and sweaters woven of alpaca or vicuna fur), sculptures, desktop objects, and more traditional souvenirs. The prices vary accordingly. We were really interested in a dog figurine, about 10 inches in size on a wooden hand-carved stand, only to find out it was the work of the famous Peruvian sculptor Karla Novy with a price tag exceeding $600. However, do not get discouraged, there is something for every budget and you are guaranteed to bring home a really authentic part of Peruvian artistic tradition. The very back of the gallery, where the cash register is located, features a sitting area set in a small backyard garden, complete with tables and chairs and kiosk selling beverages and light refreshments