Posts Tagged ‘tourism in peru’

Sacred center of Chavin de Huantar in Peru

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

La Plaza Circular Hundida - Chavin de Huantar

More than 2000 years before the conquest of the Incas, the people of the plateau created a sacred center of Chavín Huantar. The ruins were already legendary when the Spanish explorers arrived in the region. Julio C. Tello was one of the founders of the Peruvian and the first archaeological dig at Chavín to 1919. (more…)

Tourism in Peru

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

“There is simply one place on earth that has it all”.

Only one country possesses everything the planet has to suggest: all the microclimates, all the regions, each kind of animal, they are all here in Peru.

Like an enormous directory Peru can give you an idea about the best of its coastline, its highlands, and its tropical forest. Rivers, lagoons, mountains, valleys, dances, traditions, the food, drinks, ceremonies, cultures, historic ruins shrouded in the supernatural. From pacific coasts up to the snow line, from the Sechura desert to the Andes, from flamingos to vicuñas, from Señora de Copacabana to Lake Titicaca, from the huayno dance to the Alcatraz, from dishes as “Ceviche” to “Chicharron”, from “Chicha de Jora” maize (corn)) beer to distilled Vino, from Alga Rubina Carob Honey to the Ayauasca vine, from the ruinas de Tiawanacu to Machu Picchu you can acquire everything, completely everything, in the same place.

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