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Amazing Peru is Friendly Planet Travel's newest giveaway

(14 February, 2012)

Friendly Planet Travel, a leading tour operator of exotic destinations worldwide, has announced that Peru is the ultimate giveaway for travel enthusiasts.Just by becoming a fan of Friendly Planet Travel's Facebook page, travelers are entered to win one of six exotic getaways being given away in the wildly successful "Win the World" Sweepstakes. Today, Friendly Planet Travel has gained more than 9,000 fans through the Sweepstakes. There's more where that came from, with the next giveaway for fans being Friendly Planet Travel's Amazing Peru tour, a prize valued at over $6,400. The 12-day Amazing Peru tour will take one lucky winner and a guest to Lima, the country's capital; Cuzco, the...

Puno keeps on celebrating Virgen de la Candelaria festival

(14 February, 2012)

Virgen de la Candelaria festival, held in Peru’s southeastern Puno region to pay homage to its patron saint, continues with the 48th contest of mestizo dances and costumes.These activities will start at Enrique Torres Belon stadium and will continue through the streets of the city. On Wednesday, February 15, some sicuris and zampoña groups will entertain the visitors. On Saturday, the celebrations in honor of the patron of Puno will be held in each neighborhood. This is the most important festival of faith and devotion in the Peruvian Altiplano that gather, like every year, some 40,000 dancers and 9,000 musicians from the entire region. Said festival has given Puno the title "Capital del...

Machu Picchu named one of '10 incredible new adventures for 2012'

(14 February, 2012)

USA Today named Machu Picchu as part of the ’10 Incredible New Adventures for 2012’ “When Hiram Bingham III discovered the Lost City of the Incas a century ago, he could never have imagined that Machu Picchu would someday become the world's most popular adventure destination,” said the newspaper. The newspaper also mentions the challenges of Machu Picchu’s Inca Trail and the mysteries of the Temple of the Moon. “You'll raft alongside pre-Inca cities on the Urubamba River, haggle for treasures at one of the largest traditional markets in Peru, and prepare local cuisine in a Peruvian cooking class, […]”Other destinations that made the list were Alaska, Burma, Cuba, Egypt, and Greece. Last...

Peru’s cuisine, beaches attract Ecuadorian tourists this summer

(7 February, 2012)

The number of Ecuadorian tourists who prefer to visit the beaches of Peru’s northern Piura region, ideal for surfing, fishing or just for those who are looking for sun, is steadily increasing, the Regional Directorate of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Dircetur) reported Sunday. The head of Dircetur Tumbes Pedro Ortiz stressed that in February roughly 6,000 tourists visit the beaches of this department every weekend. Out of said figure some 70 percent are Peruvians, most of them from Lima. “The remaining 30 percent are foreign tourists, mainly from Ecuador, they are our faithful public, who visit us due to the proximity of both countries and motivated by the different attractions we offer,”...

Bahuaja Sonene: Over 360 undocumented species in Peru's national park

(7 February, 2012)

The Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Peru program announced today the discovery of 365 species previously undocumented in Bahuaja Sonene National Park (BSNP) in southeastern Peru. Fifteen researchers participated in the inventory focusing on plant life, insects, birds, mammals, and reptiles. The discovery included: thirty undocumented bird species, including the black-and-white hawk eagle, Wilson’s phalarope, an ash colored cuckoo; two undocumented mammals – Niceforo’s big-eared bat and the Tricolored Bat; as well as 233 undocumented species of butterflies and moths. According to Eurasia Review, this expedition was especially important because it was the first time that research of this...

Musicians and dancers open the Virgen de la Candelaria celebrations

(7 February, 2012)

The main day, the 2nd of February, the virgin was carried towards the city in a very colorful procession. With typical dances and music, about 20 delegations from small towns of Puno and sicuris groups opened the Virgen de la Candelaria celebrations. The delegations from local towns of Ichu, Ojherani, Jayllihuaya, and Puno, among others, will arrive to the highland city dancing and playing music with instruments like reed flutes, mandolins, small five string guitars and pan pipes. After greeting the Virgen de la Candelaria, the delegations will return to their communities dancing along the streets of Puno. Puno is a city in southeastern Peru, located on the shore of Lake Titicaca. Fuente:...

OAS celebrates Pisco Sour Day in Washington

(7 February, 2012)

The Organization of American States (OAS) celebrated Pisco Sour Day late Friday during a tasting event organized by the Embassy of Peru in the United States and the Permanent Mission of Peru to the OAS. In attendance were OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza; the permanent representative of Peru to the OAS, Walter Albán; the Peruvian Ambassador to the United States, Harold Forsyth; the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and Diego Garcia Sayan, among others. The celebration was held in the Hall of the Americas of the regional organization, where attendees enjoyed different varieties of pisco and various ways of preparing the pisco sour, Peru's national drink. "It was...

Cajamarca’s carnival aims to become one of the most important in Peru

(31 January, 2012)

The carnival of Cajamarca, which is celebrated from February 9 to 22, aims to become starting this year into one of the most important tourist and cultural events in the country, noted its mayor Ramiro Bardales. Bardales told Andina news agency that Cajamarca is the capital of Peruvian carnival and added that “we must keep this tradition and improve the event with the participation of every Peruvian.” “The carnival of Cajamarca is one of the most expected events because we all have fun with no distinction at all. Furthermore, all security measures are guaranteed, so I want to invite the people of Lima to take part in our activities,” he said. Moreover, Bardales noted that every thing is...

Peru tourist arrivals to rise 14% in 2012

(31 January, 2012)

The Lima Chamber of Commerce (CCL) said on Thursday that it expected the number of tourists visiting Peru to rise between 12 and 14 percent in 2012, as a result of more visitors from Latin American countries and increased public investment in tourism infrastructure, which would total US$450 million by 2016. Alvaro Benavides, head of the CCL's Tourism Committee, said that Peru has a great opportunity to attract more tourists after posting a 9 percent increase in visitor arrivals last year, according to the World Tourism Organization (WHO). "All projections show a growth between 12 and 14 percent this year and we hope that will happen. Latin America would be Peru's major source of tourists,...

Choquequirao now offers camping areas, tourism services

(31 January, 2012)

The paths to the archaeological site of Choquequirao in Cusco's Santa Teresa district now have camping areas and tourism services for a better visitor experience. The regional government said that the works were carried out through the Copesco plan in response to increasing tourist visits to the area. The local population manages these places directly according to the agreement signed between the Copesco plan, the regional government of Cusco, the town of Santa Teresa and communities. Choquequirao consists of nine groups of buildings of stone terraces, rooms and irrigation systems, distributed around a town square. It could be one of the lost cities in the valley of Vilcabamba, where the...

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Amazing Peru is Friendly Planet Travel's newest giveaway

(14 February, 2012)

Friendly Planet Travel, a leading tour operator of exotic destinations worldwide, has announced that...

Puno keeps on celebrating Virgen de la Candelaria festival

(14 February, 2012)

Virgen de la Candelaria festival, held in Peru’s southeastern Puno region to pay homage to its...

Machu Picchu named one of '10 incredible new adventures for 2012'

(14 February, 2012)

USA Today named Machu Picchu as part of the ’10 Incredible New Adventures for 2012’ “When Hiram...

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