Excursions & festivities

Excursions Peru

Apart from the Cusco region, the south Peru has a lot to offer. You can go on different excursions in Lima, Arequipa or Puno and the Titicaca Lake, or you can visit one of the traditional festivities in Peru.

The city of Cusco is located in the southeastern Andes. Its name in Qechua means "center of the world", when it was the capital of the empire or Tahuantinsuyo (four regions). Legend has it that the city was founded by Manco Capca and Mama Occlo, who rose out of Lake Titicaca.
The architectural legendary of Cusco dates back to the 15th century and is attributed to the Inca Pachacuteq (1438 - 1471), who built the city's most remarkable constructions, including fine stone carving and perfect locking between stone blocks and the  trapezoidal design of  entryways.
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Lima is the Capital City of Peru, founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1535. The old area of Lima preserves the architecture and streets plans of Colonial times.
Lima has interesting museums, which collect the best remains from the old civilizations, and nearby pre-Inca ruins in Pachacamac (see photo).
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This Colonial City is known as the "White City " because of many buildings constructed of white volcanic rock.
Its best attraction is the COLCA CANYON (the deepest one in the world) where you have the chance to watch the flight of the Condors...
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"The Sacred Lake of the Incas" a natural wonder and birthplace of Millenary Cultures that developed on its shores. The Uros (floating reed islands), Taquile and Amantani Islands like others enchanting Islands keep vestiges of Temples, and agricultural terraces where local people maintain their traditional life style.
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One releases tie tradition with the desert and agriculture surrounds to the city of Ica, capital of the department of the same name. From the Virreinato, Ica became important an inside vitivinícola one. It counts the tradition that, to few years of the Spanish conquest, seeded in these sunny earth stocks brought from the Canary islands whose surprised adaptation all. With these under it was only managed to produce an excellent wine, but that taste of such Spanish and that continues conquering to all those that they prove it.
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Absolut Travel do not currently offer walking expeditions from this regional city but the scope and depth of the places to visit is absolutely scintillating, especially if you are fascinated by ancient civilizations. Everyone has heard of the Inca but the history of Peruvian civilizations is a long and complex one going back al least 5000 years. Most of us will have heard of the Nazca lines and may have some vague ideas of the culture that was behind them. But here in the north of Peru around the same time as the Nazca flourished the civilization know as the Moche, whose pottery is world famous for its sexually explicit pieces. In addition, there are extensive remains and museums associated with the Lambayeque and Chimu periods of Peruvian culture that preceded the establishment of the Inca Empire.
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For the best comprehension we consider three aspects; belief, folklore and art; which permit us to understand the importance and the role the traditional fiestas have on the Andean society.
Cusco, like any other Andean city, has a richness in culture like customs, festivities and others that identify a rich background and still survive in the Andean community.
Their beliefs and superstitions are the way they think, act and play a role in the cultural differences.
Traditional food and drinks are specialities like the roasted Guinea pig, millet soup, staff belt pepper and fermented corn drink.
The festivities are accompanied by typical clothes, typical music, (huaynos, jarawis, yayavis etc), played on typical music instruments like: flutes, pinkullos, whistles, horn, drums, tinyas, kirkinchos, guitars and harps.