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Peru at a Glance

Peru is a country in South America that's home to a section of Amazon rainforest and Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan city high in the Andes mountains. The region around Machu Picchu, including the Sacred Valley, Inca Trail and colonial city of Cusco, is rich in archaeological sites. On Peru’s arid Pacific coast is Lima, the capital, with a preserved colonial center and important collections of pre-Columbian art.
Area1285216 Square KilometersCapitalLimaPopulation31.15 MillionOfficial LanguagesSpanish ,Quechua, AymaraCurrencySOLTime DifferenceIndia is 10 hours and 30 minutes ahead of PeruISD Code51BoundaryPeru , officially the Republic of Peru (Spanish: República del Perú , is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is an extremely biodiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains vertically extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river.

  • Overview

    Travelers need a passport valid at least half a year with at least 2 free pages in the visa section when entering Peru. The maximum stay in Peru on a tourist visa is 183 days (per year)! You can't extent your tourist visa once you entered Peru!

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    Freedom of religion is a fundamental right in Peru’s culture, although Catholicism is the main religion, another legacy of the Spanish. Religious festivals have strong Spanish influence, but they are also an example of how different beliefs and religions of Peru's pre-Hispanic cultures coexist.Since pre-Hispanic times, music and dance has always played an important role in Peruvian society. Ancient Peruvians used sea shells, reeds and even animal bones to produce sounds.

  • Ceviche

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    It’s Peru's national dish, the best versions of this marinated fish dish are in Lima and it’s the freshest, zestiest and healthiest dish you will ever have. While Lima may not be the ancestral home of the ceviche, you can find delicious fine dining recipes and street food versions here. The word ceviche comes from the indigenous quechua language word ‘siwichi’, meaning fresh fish. It’s primarily a coastal dish but I had one of my most memorable and tastiest ceviches in Iquitos, a city in the heart of the Amazon.

  • Causa

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    Causa means ‘the cause’. It is said that over 100 years ago in the war between Peru and Chile in the frontier, all that was left was potato. The wives of the Peruvian soldiers made the best of this by serving a cold mash potato salad and other ingredients to accompany it and said ‘this is for the cause’. Thus, ‘causa’ was born. Today it’s a classic Peruvian dish. The Causa Limeña, or Lima Causa, has potato, tuna, avocado and tomato.

  • Lomo Saltado

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    Peru has almost 500 national dishes but Lomo Saltado is the most popular meat dish. It is part Criollo, part Chifa. Criollo meaning mixed influenced, and Chifa is the cuisine in Peru, which blends Peruvian influences and those of Chinese origin. The Chinese arrived in Peru in the 1850s and brought with them a variety of cooking techniques. This dish is beef, flame-cooked (flambee) in the wok mixing Peruvian native ingredients like amarillo chillies, tomatoes and red onions. Its smoky flavour gives it character, but it is the sauce - a combination of Peruvian and Chinese ingredients - that really make this a mouthwatering dish.

  • Suspiro a la Limeña

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    Suspiro a la Limeña is Lima’s most popular dessert and carries the city’s name. It is a combination of dulce de leche, or caramelised sugar and smooth meringue. Its name means ‘sigh of a Lima lady’ and is said to have been named by the Peruvian poet Jose Galvez, after his wife Amparo Ayarez first made it for him. Inspired, he gave it this name in honour of his favourite dessert.

  • Fiesta de la Cruz

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    The Festival of the Cross isn't as solemnly Catholic as it might sound. Best in Lima, Cusco, and Ica, the festival does feature cross processions (although the decorated crosses are vibrant), but it also displays a surfeit of folk music and dance, the highlight being the daring "scissors dancers," who once performed on top of churches.

  • El Senor de los Milagros

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    This highly religious procession features tens of thousands of participants all clad in bright purple. The Lord of Miracles, the largest procession in South America, lasts a full 24 hours. It venerates a miraculous painting of Jesus Christ, which was created by an Angolan slave and survived the devastating 1746 earthquake, even though almost everything around it was felled.

  • Inti Raymi

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    The Festival of the Sun, one of the greatest pageants in South America, celebrates the winter solstice and honors the Inca sun god with a bounty of colorful Andean parades, music, and dance. It takes over Cusco and transforms the Sacsayhuamán ruins overlooking the city into a majestic stage.

  • Virgen del Carmen

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    The tiny, remote Andean colonial village of Paucartambo is about 4 hours from Cusco, but it hosts one of Peru's wildest festivals. Three days of dancing, drinking, and outlandish, scary costumes pack in thousands who camp all over town (there's almost nowhere to stay) and then wind up (temporarily) at the cemetery.

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