In the north, the Cordillera Blanca has been declared World Heritage by UNESCO. From the city of Huaraz, 23 are seen the snowy peaks that exceed 5,000 meters. The highest is the stunning Huascaran (6768 meters). Region of ancient glaciers, do not miss the turquoise lakes as the “lagoon Conococha” in the valley of Huaylas.
The Peruvian Executive today approved a Supreme Decree by which grants exemption from general sales tax and payment of duty to various drugs used to treat cancer and HIV / AIDS.
The list of drugs and supplies that from tomorrow, when published, the rule will not have to pay taxes to be imported to Peru has 85 products related to cancer treatment and 27 that are used to treat people with HIV / AIDS.
Drugs that benefit from this rule include anastrozole, asparaginase, bexarotene, cetuximab, decitabine, in the case of cancer, and didanosine, stavudine, lamivudine, maraviroc, raltegravir, zalcitabine, in the case of HIV treatment.
According to the press release that gave the notice the measure seeks to impact these tax breaks benefit the South American country’s population suffering from these diseases.
Supreme Decree was signed by Peru’s President Alan Garcia, and Economy Minister Mercedes Araoz, and Health Minister Oscar Ugarte.
The Colorado-based Love Hope Strength foundation hosted an event recently called “Peru Rocks”, where 63 travelers – including musicians from The Fixx, Fastball, The Alarm and more – along with cancer survivors, and their supporters from around the world joined together to raise funds and awareness of cancer-related issues in Peru. The trip took the trekkers from Cuzco, Peru to the heights of Machu Picchu, back down to Lima, where they met with patients and doctors of INEN, Peru’s main cancer center. The travelers finished their trip with a concert in Lima on October 15th. Funds raised on the trip were donated to INEN, and will be used to establish a fully staffed and equipped medical bus that will serve rural Peru, screening residents for cancer.
Peru’s cuisine can be roughly divided into two departments: the Lima, represented by the main coastal areas to spicy, main materials are fish, seafood, chicken and potatoes, practices, mostly cold, steamed, and grilled; to Cuzco, represented by mountain vegetables with sweet main main materials are beef, lamb and potatoes to stew, braise, fry the main. Many Peruvians also likes to eat French and Spanish dishes. In general, the Peruvians particularly fond of peppers and spices.
Pisco, wine and pisco cocktails
Pisco liquor is a kind of grape juice as raw material, through the distillation of liquor brewed. Today, pisco, wine has with the rice and chicken, become Peruvian table indispensable component. At the same time, Peru, pisco, wine production is climbing, annual output has reached 3 million liters. 2005 Peru pisco exports reached 452 thousand U.S. dollars, a record is expected in 2006 will top 500,000 U.S. dollars mark.
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“Sebi cut” from the ancient Moche language, dish out the freshness of fish and meat need to dip them in the marinade, the resulting invention. The ancient Peruvians do not know if this kind of thing lemon, but they know that other sour fruits, such as “CHURUBA”, “CAMU-CAMU” and the West and other fan-lian. The fruit juice can provide adequate preservation of function. Later in the dish where it has joined the red onion, pepper, curry and lettuce, until the arrival of the Andean migrants, it was finally shaped to join the cook in the form of sweet potato and corn on the cob.
Since pre-Columbian times Peruvians have been divided by nature. From the arid deserts of the coast, the Andean Sierra rises up to 19,700 feet. The highlands comprise about a quarter of Peru’s territory, but are home to about half of Peru’s population. This mountain mass poses major problems for development and integration into a single society.
The result is dramatic regional diversity, and considerable inequalities in services and living standards. Health, education and law enforcement programs are unevenly distributed across Peru.
At first sight, Peruvian culture may seem brutally divided between indigenous and colonial societies – the mountains and the city. Elite white creoles trace their bloodlines back to the Spanish Conquest in 1536. Like generations before them, most live in Lima, where a European visitor will feel a comfortable familiarity in the cafes and supermarkets.
On the other side, rural communities now also aspire to ownership of televisions and blue jeans but this comes into conflict with their traditional cultural values. The people of the Andes are maintaining the traditional practices of their ancestors in a rapidly changing world. Their livelihood continues to be based on family-owned fields or charkas which are farmed by hand or with the assistance of draft animals.
The social organization of communities in the Andes differs greatly from that of Europeanized creole culture. Work, marriage and land-ownership are centered around a complex extended family organization called the ayllu in Quechua which dates back to at least Inca times. One of the main functions of ayllus is to organize reciprocal work exchange.
Over the past 400 years, there has been a long process of inter-cultural mixing, creating the mestizo of part-American Indian, part-European heritage. Today the majority of Peruvians would fall into this category. In Peru, you can become mestizo not only by birth but by choice. Peruvian social divisions can thus be said to be not so much racially as culturally defined.
The Andes have two large ethnoliguistic groups: the larger of the two speaks Quechua; the smaller group speaks Aymara and is settled around Lake Titicaca and also in neighboring Bolivia. Beyond these global distinctions, other complexities arise. There are “white” ethnic groups called the Morochucos of Pampa Cangallo who have light-colored eyes and hair and speak Quechua.
The misti, the dominant social class in the Andes, may speak Quechua and share other cultural traits but enjoy access to education and the luxuries of the modernization. Meanwhile in the Amazon jungle, there are at least 53 ethnolinguistic groups, although only around 5 percent of Peru’s population live in the Selva (the tropical region east of the Andes in the jungle).
Due to its New World history, Peru also enjoys a rich cultural diversity. Up to the 19th Century, landowners brought in African blacks to serve as slaves on their haciendas and frequently used them to repress the local Indians. Between 1850 and 1920, Chinese and Japanese laborers provided the hands and backs to build railways over the Andes and farm the land where there was a scarcity of labor.
A large majority of highland people live a marginal and impoverished existence and are removed from the modern benefits of the national economy. While retaining an unchanged loyalty to their ancestral heritage, so well identified to the outside world through their bright homemade costumes, the poor of the Andes are nevertheless equally eager to share in the luxuries of a “modern” lifestyle which includes education, electricity, sewage and running potable water. But rather than improving, the economic conditions of these communities is deteriorating, leading to massive urban migration.
Peru’s middle class is the most difficult to define. In the 1970’s, with the integration of modernization, the middle class grew into its own, both in Lima and in provincial cities. This growth was due to the diversification of the economy and to the expansion of the Peruvian state, both as a purveyor of public services and as an entrepreneur. During this period, roads penetrating into the Sierra and the Amazon Basin started to link the hinterland with Lima and important coastal markets. Mass communication began to reach out to new audiences.
Today, Lima, the capital has come to represent all that went wrong with Peruvian development. One city now concentrates most of country’s services and other resources, but they are grossly inadequate to sustain its 8 million inhabitants.
A striking feature of contemporary Peruvian society is the massive scale of the informal economy. The decay of the national economy has led to an abundance of traditional market street trade and bartering at market stalls as an integral part of daily life. Ambulantes (street vendors) can be found on every corner selling a huge variety of goods.
Despite decades of political upheaval and social unrest, Peru can now be seen to be entering a more stable phase in its history. An increasing level of governmental consistency and growing economic strength has led to growing confidence from within.
Of the many Peru tours offered by Adventure Life Journeys, the Incas and Rainforest Peru trip is one of the most unique. In addition to hiking the Inca Trail to the mystical Machu Picchu, this Peru tour includes a homestay with the Quechua people of Lake Titicaca, and a visit to an Amazon jungle lodge where you’ll discover the amazing flora and fauna of the Amazon rainforest
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Machu Picchu is an architectural jewel. The beauty and misery of its walled ruins, once palaces of the finest Inca stonework, are augmented even more by the lush, almost virginal landscape of the surroundings. Green jungle flora suffuses the abrupt topography. Orchids add a strange brilliance. The ruins blend harmoniously amid the narrow and uneven topography.
Machu Picchu sits nearly 8,000 feet above sea level, on top of a ridge between two peaks of different size. The smaller peak, called the “Huayna Picchu”, is the one most often seen in photographs of the ruins. With the passing of the centuries, the ruins’ original name has been forgotten. The name “Machu Picchu” comes simply from its geography. It literally means “old peak”, just as “Huaynu Picchu” is “young peak”. The more accurate translation relates to the concept of size, with Machu Picchu as the “bigger peak” and Huayna Picchu, the “smaller peak”.
With its discovery in 1911, Machu Picchu made its debut as an authentic archeological enigma. Its purpose continues to intrigue, with mysteries that perhaps will never fully be unraveled.
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Peru is an earthquake-prone countries, in 2001, Peru issued a new currency.
Study of Peru is currently being carried out in the hot, appealed to the students not just to Spain tie Tun children in Peru, is easier to obtain residency status, but also the social status of Chinese compared to Chile, Argentina is relatively high, so Peru can be considered absolutely one of the ideal of studying abroad.
In Peru, the Orchidaceae family features some 3,000 species, most of which grow in the tropical jungle on the eastern slopes of the Andes: the cloud forest region. There, amidst the exuberant vegetation produced by nearly 5,000 mm of rainfall a year, orchids multiply, forming veritable natural gardens.
In the far northwest of Peru, in the departments of Tumbes y Piura, one can find several attractive species of orchids such as the Cattleya maxima, with large, violet flowers. To the east, the department of Amazonas features vast stretches of cloud forest which are a haven for a series of striking orchids such as the Masdevalia. The Mayo River Valley, in the department of San Martín, has been dubbed “the land of orchids”, where one can find the Cattleya rex, considered a symbol of the region’s wildflowers.
Huánuco is the gateway to the tropical jungle and an ideal place for orchid lovers: cloud forests and dense vegetation which hide hundreds of plants, including the Epidendrum which grow on tree branches, amongst rocks or on ground-based moss.
The Cordillera Blanca mountain range and the Callejon de Huaylas valley in the department of Ancash add to a breath-taking landscape the chance to spot interesting varieties of native orchids, including the wakanku (Masdevalia amabilis).
The Chanchamayo Valley in the department of Junín is home to an ideal series of circuits for orchid fans. One particularly interesting trail is the route that runs through Pampa Hermosa and Monobamba, outside San Ramon, where one can find an enormous diversity of species such as the Royal Butterfly (Psychopsis sanderae) and the lovely Star of David (Huntleya vargasii).
Finally, the Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary is home to more than 200 orchid varieties. The finest include the wakanki, which in the Quechua language means “you will weep” (Masdevalia vetchiana), and wiñaywayna, “forever young” (Epidendrum secundum). The best way to study orchids and at the same time take in the spectacular countryside is to hike the Inca Trail, which links Qorihuayrachina (on the outskirts of Ollantaytambo), with the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.
There are many delicious food in Peru.for examle Ceviche,Juanes and potatos!
Drinks: Wines, Beers(Cusqueña, Brahma, Pilsen) and spirits are served in almost every bar, café or restaurant at any time, but there is a deposit on taking beer bottles out (canned beer is one of the worst inventions to hit Peru this century – some of the finest beaches are littered with empty cans).
The food in Peru is as diverse as are its different climates and cities, and eating out can be an adventure in itself.
Typical Food: Ceviche In the Costa
Typical Food: Juanes In the Selva
Typical Food: Lechon, Rocoto Relleno In the Sierra
Peru is famous for potatos (papas), with more 5000 varieties. Potatos come from the mountains (Sierra: Huancayo, Cusco, Arequipa), including sweet potatoes which are a must, cooked and served cold with ceviche.
Also from the sierra, cuy (Guinea pig) is cut up and cooked in stews or gutted, flattened and cooked barbecue style on the grill. Rabbit dishes are popular, and even llama can be found on the menu in Cusco(Tipon). The travellers also can visit the ruins of tipon
Restaurant: In several cities of Peru there’s usually a few chifas(chinese) places, also fair number of vegetarian restaurants. Most restaurants open to week around of 11am to 11pm.
The price is around $1 to $3, these most commonly consist of three courses: soup, a main dish, and a cup of tea or coffee to follow.
Peru is a long history of civilization. AD 11 century, the Indians in the Andes highlands has established a vast territory, culture unique, “the Inca empire.”
Peru could be called the heart of South American civilization, is a has a long cultural history of the ancient countries, the ancient Indian civilization, the American continent, the three centers. In general, Peru’s history can be traced from the 11th century AD. At that time the irresistible Inca people (the Indians a) to extend their influence into this area coast, conquered the powerful Chimu kingdom. But in fact, around 4000 BC, when this piece of land in Peru there is the dawn of human civilization emerged. 1500 BC to 400 BC Cha scholars and 200 years BC to AD 700 Mochica people in agriculture, engineering and architecture have made outstanding achievements, they left behind the remains so far amazing.
Machu Picchu is Peru’s ancient Inca empire, the ancient city ruins, the ancient city of narrow streets, neat and orderly, palaces, temples, workshops, fortresses and other different characteristics. Many of them are built on boulders with no mortar and other adhesive material, size, stones on the seam is tight, even a blade is inserted not enter. In 1983, UNESCO included in Machu Picchu, “the World Heritage List.”
