Fiestas Patrias!

PERU

My country with full of rich historic past is going to celebrate its Independence Day! Comparing to other countries, Peru has 2 days to celebrate it, July 27 and 28. Days that the country was freed from Spain in 1821. Costumes, typical food and dances, colloquial life experiences made Peru a special country like many others in the world.

SOME OF ITS ATRACTIONS

This place is called Moray located in Cusco. It is possible that this place was the agricultural research center. Each platform develop a microclimate. It was the potato, the corn a subject of such study, but it seems the most interesting for this researchment was the coca leaf.
From South, Arequipa, the White City, surrounded by three big enormous volcanoes standing out one of them, the Misti volcano; it is a city of dry soil but arid, sunny all year around rains in summer time! City of deepest canyons as Colca and Cotahuasi. In this city you can find the unique bullfighting without causing injury to the bull itself but sometimes either the bull's owner does not agree with the results, he might fight with the winner. The impressive monastery Santa Catalina is one of the more interesting to visit in the country.


By southeast is Puno city, with the floating island Uros and the highest navigable lake in the world called Titicaca lies between Peru and Bolivia.

In the Midwest is Paracas and the Cathedral a rocky formation caused by the wind and sea erosion. It dates of upper Eocene between 30 and 34 million years old.In the North part Chiclayo city is El Señor de Sipán one of the astonish tomb after the Tutankhamen tomb in Egypt, valuable pieces were found through 4 m deep.

PERUVIAN COLOQUIALL LIVING

What a formal annoucenment here in Cusco! It was located near to a central market where Michael and I had for breakfast fruit juice, hot chocolate and bread with skin milk... It says:

Mr. Thief, it is forbidden to robber in this market, there is an agreement to hung you and then to bring you to the police station (PNP). :) For Sunday lunch menu in a local restaurant of the Inca's Sacred Valley in Cusco is chicharrón (Pork rinds) with roasted potatoes and onion salad with hierbabuena (kind of mint). You pay in the Peruvian current money 13 soles (S/.) around $4.50. It is highly recommended to lunch with at least 3 persons otherwise you won't finish your meal!!!!
This cute lady from Arequipa is delivering milk door by door each morning, using as a vehicle a donkey. She feeds it with alfalfa along the walking.There are some corners as target which this ice cream vendor making sound with a special tool as a sign that he is arriving to the place to sell D'Onofrio ice cream, such as--> chocolate sandwiches with vanilla, bombons, cup Copacabana, delicioussss!

In the daily menu board it is omitted the "s" in the phrase "pecado frito" it should says "pescado" (fish) instead "pecado" (sin).

For Sorojchi or Soroche (high altitude sickness) this add suggests something important but also it works very well a cup of coca tea!
This is funny, this is a man dressed up as a woman with some balloons on his chest and backside. Then he goes to the beach or places crowded of people selling sweets in a ironic, and sarcastic feminine voice to the men:"Hey, handsome! buy this candy bars, come on honey I have bubble gum for your girlfriend". If the customer denies to buy something to this dressed up guy, he says in a normal voice: "You are bad classmate!" :)))

ENTERTAINMENT

Peru has food diversity as well as dances: marinera, festejo, huayno, vals criollo, chicha. (click to watch videos)


Video: typical dance from the Andes - Teatro de Arte Cultural Cusco

Playing a guitar and singing and old and nice Peruvian vals under the sunset...

Perhaps a 'festejo' in voice of Eva Ayllón singer, the Peruvian symbol, it is so fun! These are recorded videos from her perform in the Hopkins Center, Hanover, New Hampshire USA in octuber 2007. She got a successful night. Americans danced with the Peruvian rythm. Michael and I did the same! Eva is Perú!

video: Ingá - Hopkins Center, New Hampshire, USA - October 2007



video: Eva Ayllon: "I don't speak in English, I only sing."

Hopkins Center, New Hampshire, USA - October 2007

Tapping dance!


Video: "Shooting" Hopkins Center, New Hampshire, USA - October 2007

Thanks Eva!

NATIONAL PRIDE

Condor Flyght - Cotahuasi Canyon, Arequipa

Alpaca Suri - Alpaca Feast 2000, Arequipa

Inca's stone with 12 angles, Cusco

Still the list continues--> Pisco Sour, Ceviche,Parihuela, El Choclo con Queso (corn with cheese), Inka Cola (soda), El Señor de Los Milagros, Pollo a la Brasa, Christian Meir (a handsome), Mario Vargas Llosa, Radio Programas del Perú and its 'Mi Novela Favorita", D'Onofrio ice cream and cake, Sublime chocolate, Aji No-Moto , Gloria Milk...and ourselves the Peruvians.Peruvian Government Palace - Lima, Perú