7 Things To Do in Peru (That Aren't Machu Picchu)
7. Sandboarding and racing dune buggies in Huacachina
This hidden oasis provides ample opportunity for adrenaline-junkies and thrill seekers to explore. Just four hours south of Lima, travellers can begin their day by boarding down sand dunes or racing across the desert in dune buggies for a truly exhilarating experience.
6. Explore the Peruvian Amazon
Considered to be less popular than its Brazilian counterpart, the Peruvian Amazon is home to a diverse wildlife population and winding rivers that you need to visit while in Peru. To access the diverse jungle terrain, you can take a flight from the city of Puerto Maldonado with flights leaving daily from Cusco and Lima. And the good news? Tours through the Amazon on the Peru side are significantly cheaper – meaning you can save your dollars for a bonus round of pisco sours.
5. Go deep into Colca Canyon
When in Peru, make time to visit one of the deepest and most spectacular canyons in the world, the Colca Canyon. Accessible from Peru’s second largest city, Arequipa, the Colca Canyon is Peru’s third most-visited attraction yet many hikers seem to skip this impressive site. Don’t make the same mistake as those hikers and add a trip to the Colca Canyon to your itinerary. Also, if you’re still yet to be impressed, the Colca Canyon is actually twice as deep as the United States’ Grand Canyon. See for yourself how it compares.
4. Embrace the serenity of Lake Sandoval
Lake Sandoval is part of the Madre de Dios region of Peru, which is part of the Amazon basin. To reach this majestic site, you can start your hike near Mare de Dios River and marvel at the impressive wildlife including parrots, macaws and other exciting creatures. Once you arrive, you will be greeted by an unforgettable sunset.
3. Taste the mineral-rich salts of Maras
Just outside of Cusco you will find the town of Maras which is held in high esteem across the world for its impressive collection of salt mines that date back to the Inca times. Here, you will find thousands of salt pools that make up the hillside that build an intricate network of channels that feed spring water into the ponds. For a small fee, you can taste the warm water and sample some of the finest salt in the world. The mineral rich salt is great for cooking and is believed to help reduce stress.
2. Walk the streets of Arequipa
You’ve heard all about Cusco and Lima, but what do you really know about Arequipa? This city is filled with charming baroque architecture built from white volcanic stone. Surrounded by breathtaking volcanoes, Arequipa has well and truly earned its place as a UNESCO World Heritage destination.
1. Do as the Peruvians do in Huilloc
There’s a reason why we saved the best until the very end. To wrap up your time in Peru, there’s no better way to experience Peru than by immersing yourself in local culture. Make time for a visit to the Quechua village of Hilloc and learn more about the fine art weaving from the female villagers who have been perfecting the craft since a young age. Then, sit down for a pachamanca lunch where stones and grass are used to cook cuy (guinea pig), fava beans and potatoes using traditional cooking methods. The hospitality and generosity of the Quehchea villagers will leave you feeling humbled and grateful for the experience.
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Peru is a country in South America, situated on the western side of that continent, facing the South Pacific Ocean and straddling part of the Andes mountain range that runs the length of South America. Peru is bordered by Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil and Bolivia to the east, and Chile to the south. Peru is a country that has a diversity and wealth not common in the world. The main attractions are their archaeological patrimony of pre-Columbian cultures and the hub of the Inca's empire, their gastronomy, their colonial architecture (it has imposing colonial constructions) and their natural resources (a paradise for ecological tourism).
See in Peru
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Wildlife
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With 84 of the earth's 104 known life zones, Peru is rich in wildlife diversity. The Amazon basin is home to pink dolphins, jaguars, giant river otters, primates, 4,000 types of butterflies and one-third of the world's 8,600 bird species.
Folklore
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The diversity of Peru's people and cultures is reflected in a rich tradition of festivals, dance and music. In the Andes, the plaintive wail of the flute and beat of the drum accompany songs depicting indigenous life while dancers masked as devils and spirits are a marriage of pagan and Christian beliefs. In the jungle, ceremonial music and dance are a window into tribal life. And along the coast, a blend of elegant Spanish sounds and vibrant African rhythms reflect the Conquest and later slave labour of the New World.
Do in Peru
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Trekking is a great way to see the country. The most widely known route is the classic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Other popular routes include Cordillera Blanca - Huaraz, Colca Canyon - Arequipa, Ausangate Trek, Salkantay trek (also spelt Salkcantay), Choquequirao trek and Inka Jungle trek to Machu Picchu - an adrenaline trip to Machu Picchu.
Trek prices can vary considerably between companies, as can their respective porters' working conditions (no pack animals are allowed, hence equipment is carried by human porters). Although there is a minimum porter wage (PEN42/day, about USD15) and maximum load porters can carry (25kg/55 lb), not all companies keep to their claims!
Peru offers a big variety of adrenaline sport such as rafting, kayaking, biking, zip line, horseback riding, surfing, ATV, motocross, paragliding, canopy, canoing, sandboarding, etc.
Another popular activity to do in Peru is to visit its wildlife in the Amazon Rainforest that can be also considered as an adrenaline sport thanks to spending time among wild animals. Peru have differents activites and experiences: Tierras Vivas[10] is specialist in holidays to Peru
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Regions
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Central Coast
Southern Coast
Northern Coast
Southern Sierra
Central Sierra
Northern Sierra
Altiplano
San Martín
Peruvian Amazon
Madre de Dios
Although Peru has rich natural resources and many great places to visit, the poverty scale reaches 25.8% of the population. The rich, consisting mostly of a Hispanic (or Criollo) elite, live in the cities. Nevertheless, most Peruvians are great nationalists and love their country with pride (largely stemming from Peru's history as the hub of both the Inca empire and Spain's South American empire). Also, many Peruvians separate the state of Peru and its government in their minds. Many of them distrust their government and police, and people are used to fighting corruption and embezzlement scandals, as in many countries.
The Peruvian economy is healthy and quite strong, however inequality is still common. It is indebted and dependent on industrial nations, especially China, Russia and United States. The US foreign policy decisions in recent years has contributed to a widely held negative view about the US government in Peru, but not against individual citizens.
The word gringo is used commonly but is not generally intended as offensive. The original meaning encompassed all white people who do not speak Spanish. Many people use the word gringo exclusively for Americans or American look-alikes. It's not uncommon for blonde people to be called gringo. Peruvians do not hesitate to greet you with ¡Hola, gringo!.
Generally, people are very friendly, peaceful and helpful. When in trouble, you mostly can rely on getting help. But as with any setting, it is always good to watch out for yourself and try to avoid bad situations. If you get into an argument, it is a good idea to remain amicable, but firm. Most of the time, you can find a compromise that satisfies everyone.
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Puerto Maldonado is a city in Southeastern Peru in the Amazon forest 55 kilometres (34 mi) west of the Bolivian border on the confluence of the Tambopata and Madre de Dios River, a tributary of the Amazon River. It is the capital of the Madre de Dios Region.
Nearby are the Manú National Park, Tambopata National Reserve, and Bahuaja-Sonene National Park. These are some of the most pristine primary rain forests in the world, which include several oxbow lakes and clay licks, where hundreds of birds including macaws feed on clay.
Climate
Puerto Maldonado is in the tropical Amazon Basin. The climate is hot and humid at all times. The average annual temperature is 26 °C (79 °F) with the months of August and September being the hottest. Annual rainfall exceeds 1,000 millimetres (3.3 ft). The wet season is from October to April. The main part of the town is located on a slightly elevated area that does not normally flood in the wet season. Road travel often becomes impossible during this time. A low season occurs between June and August.
A common phenomenon known locally as a surazo or friaje occurs when polar winds blow in from the mountainous south. The temperature will drop to as low as 8 °C (46 °F) for several days.
Ruta Sudamerica (Perú) : Puerto Maldonado
Después de Machu Picchu nos tocaba descubrir la selva en Puerto Maldonado. Una gran experiencia !
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Top 10 Restaurants for Peruvian Food in Lima, Peru
Join us in this video as we list what we feel are the Top 10 Restaurants in Lima, Peru for Peruvian food. Of course, any kind of list is subjective but overall these are our favorite restaurants in Lima and just thinking about them makes our mouths water. Lima is such a foodie city that every single time we come back to revisit we find new restaurants to add to our list of favorites. For instance, on our latest trip we tried Tanta, , Papacho's and El Bodegon for the first time. In terms of Peruvian food we'd recommend trying classics such as ceviche, lomo saltado, papa a la huancahina, acevichado, empanadas, chifa, nikkei, triples and churros come to mind. What are your favorite restaurants in Lima, Peru? Please let us know in the comments below.
Top 10 Restaurants in Lima, Peru (No particular order)
1) La Rosa Náutica
2) Punto Azul
3) Anticuchos de la Tía Grimanesa
4) Tanta
5) Nikko
6) Chifa Yi Yi
7) La Lucha Sanguchería Criolla
8) Papachos
9) El Bodegón
10) Manolo
Restaurants in Lima, Peru Information and Location:
1) La Rosa Náutica
Address: Espigón Miraflores, Lima 18, Circuito de Playas, Miraflores, Lima, Peru
Hours: Monday to Sunday 12p.m.–12a.m.
Phone: +51 1 4450149
2) Punto Azul
Seafood Restaurant
Address: Calle San Martin 595, Miraflores 15074, Peru
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12p.m.–12a.m.
Sunday 12–5p.m. & Monday 6p.m.–12a.m.
Phone: +51 1 4458078
3) Anticuchos Grimanesa
Address: Calle Ignacio Merino 466, Miraflores 15074, Peru
Hours: Monday to Saturday 5–11p.m.
Sunday Closed
Phone: +51 998 496 137
4) Tanta
Address: Av Vasco Núñez de Balboa 660, Miraflores, Lima 15074, Peru
Hours: Monday to Sunday 12–10p.m.
Phone: +51 1 4445231
5) Nikko La Molina
Address: 1137, Av. la Fontana, La Molina 15024, Peru
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12–5p.m., 7:30–11p.m.
Sunday to Monday 12–5p.m.
Reservations: nikko.com.pe, restorando.com.pe
Phone: +51 989 098 517
6) Chifa Yi Yi
Chinese Restaurant
Address: Av. Alfredo Benavides 3939, Santiago de Surco 15038, Peru
Hours: Monday to Friday 12–4p.m., 6:30p.m.–11a.m.
Saturday 12–11p.m. & Sunday 12–10:30p.m.
Phone: +51 1 2733939
7) La Lucha Sanguchería Criolla
Address: Av Jose Larco 999, Miraflores 15074, Peru
Hours: Monday to Sunday 8a.m.–12a.m.
8) Papacho's Miraflores
Address: Av. la Paz 1045, Miraflores 15074, Peru
Hours: Monday to Friday 12p.m.–12a.m.
Saturday 11a.m.–12a.m. & Sunday 11a.m.–10p.m.
Phone: +51 1 2536460
9) El Bodegon
Address: Avenida Tarapaca 197, Miraflores 15074, Peru
Hours: Monday to Friday 12p.m.–12a.m.
Saturday 11a.m.–12a.m. & Sunday 11a.m.–9p.m.
Reservations: restorando.com.pe
Phone: +51 1 4444704
10) Manolo
Address: Av Jose Larco 608, Miraflores 15074, Peru
Hours: Monday to Thursday 7a.m.–1a.m.
Friday 7a.m.–2a.m.
Saturday 8a.m.–2a.m.
Sunday 8a.m.–1a.m.
Phone: +51 1 4442244
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This is part of our Travel in Peru video series showcasing Peruvian food, Peruvian culture and Peruvian cuisine.
Esto es parte de nuestra serie de videos Travel in Peru que muestra comida peruana, cultura peruana y cocina peruana de Lima, incluyendo comida Limeña y cocina Limeña.
Puerto Maldonado and Tambopata National Reserve, Peru
Had a fantastic time visiting this area. Went on 2 tours, Lago Sandoval and Cuncho Jungle. This video is my experience. For more info about how, where and what in this region check out my blogpost -
Parque Nacional del Manu, 40 años protegiendo una de las zonas con mayor biodiversidad del planeta
Peru stands at the top of the internati
onal birder's agenda. Complex patterns of
biogeography and topography across many differ
ent ecotones have blessed the country
with some of the greatest dive
rsity and density of birds on earth. This coupled with its
rich history and culture makes Peru a must
see destination for the intrepid birder.
Approximately 1,792 bird species are known
to occur in Peru, which corresponds to
18.5% of all known bird species on earth, and
45% of all neo-tropic
al birds. In fact,
only Columbia has a higher diversity of bird
species. Many species new to science have
recently been discovered in Peru (including from the Manu region), and the majority of
these still await formal description. Unlike other top-ranking neo-tropical birding
destinations, such as Ecuador
or Costa Rica, Peru still has extensive tracts of
undisturbed habitats. Consequently, most reput
able bird tour companies have Peru on
their menu of birding holidays.
Nowhere is this wealth of diversity more
evident than in the tropical forests and
associated habitats of Manu, in south-eastern
Peru. To date up to ten different types of
lowland forest habitat have
been identified in this part of the south-western Amazon
basin, and these themselves contain many
other distinctive microhabitats. The
extraordinary levels of diversity are also ev
ident in other taxa: in just one hectare of
lowland forest, there are often up to 300 sp
ecies of trees and more than 1300 plus
species of butterfly have been recorded
at Pakitza in Manu. During a typical tour,
birders also often encounter eight or more sp
ecies of primates; expe
rience the nocturnal
habits of Brazilian Tapirs (and other mammals
) at clay-licks; bump into a family group
of Giant Otters on one of the many oxbow
lakes; and frequently see Jaguar along the
rivers. It is in the richness of birds however
, that visitors to Manu experience the full
wealth that the process of e
volution has to offer. To unde
rstand just how South America
‘became’ the ‘birding continent’, one has to
briefly recap on geol
ogical history. During
the Cretaceous period (
± 4
to
± 0.3
million years ago), the great southern continent
Gondwanaland broke up and the land mass th
at is now South America broke off from
present-day Africa. This land mass continued
to drift north-west until it came to rest
against modern Panama and Costa Rica, formi
ng a permanent land bridge. Prior to this
event, South America was an island continent
of low relief for about 100 million years.
As South America separated fr
om Africa, it carried with
it the early ancestors of the
passerines (perching birds). Modern descenda
nts of these species include: the manakins
Birds such as Gray-breasted Mountain-t
oucan, Swallow-tailed Nightjar, Mountain
Cacique, Barred Fruiteater, Ma
rcapata Spinetail and Collare
d Jay are typical. As one
continues down the road through the unbr
oken humid forests, birders encounter
distinctive and very noticeable ‘shifts’ in th
e structure of the bird
communities for every
500 meters gained or lost in elevation. Th
e forests below 1,900 m,
and in particular,
between 1,500-900 m elevations are the home of
the national bird of Peru – the Andean
Cock-of-the-Rock. A visit to one of their le
ks (courtship sites) is
one of the world's
great ornithological spectacles and Manu has
to be the easiest place to witness this
spectacle. Cloud forests at this altitude are un
der much pressure in
the rest of South
America due to cutting for the growing of tea,
coffee and coca for the narcotics trade. In
Manu it remains intact. Consequently, birds su
ch as Golden-headed and Crested Quetzal,
Blue-banded toucanet, Versicolored Barbet
, Chestnut-breasted Wren, Cerulean-capped
Manakin, Slaty Gnateater, Peruvian Piedtail and scores of tanagers, ovenbirds, and tyrant-
flycatchers are often seen. A mornings birding
here can be a fantastic experience as large
mixed species flocks containing several dozen
species of birds move through the cloud
forest, some sally-gleaning, some probing crevic
es, others climbing tree trunks or limbs.
Such mixed flocks may contain
Leaving the Andes and foothills behind,
birders soon reach the untouched forests
of the western Amazon, with the highest dens
ity of birdlife per h
ectare of terrestrial
habitat on earth. At this point you must
switch from sturdy overland vehicles to
motorized dugouts. Here the Manu and Madre
de Dios rivers are characterized by a
meandering, slow flowing watercourse with
white sand and pe
bble beaches exposed
during the dry season from June to October.
These beaches provide valuable nesting
habitat, and are loaded with nesting and vis
from recently formed, to very
old, overgrown lakes with almo
st no water. These lakes are
characterized by birds such as Sungrebe,
Sunbittern, Wattled Ja
Amazon Rainforest Wildlife - Best of Trail Camera 2016
Some of the highlights captured by our trail cameras last year! Cameras were managed by Amazonia Expeditions staff biologist Andy Bicerra. All videos were taken on the trail grid behind our Amazon Research Center located inside the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Regional Conservation Area south of Iquitos, Peru. We will be working over the next few weeks to set up cameras in new locations.
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MANU JUNGLE TRIPS
Project in Tropical Bird Ecology, Manu National Park, Peru manujungle trips Our research group is looking for driven and energe tic students and researchers interested in working with tropical birds in Manu N ational Park, Peru. manu jungle trips Our project will take place between June and mid-December of 20
12 at sites along an elevational gradient from 400 – 3400m (lowland jungle trips to montane treeline). Within this gradient, we work at several permanent field stations (manu jungle trips –
400m, San Pedro – 1400m, Wayqecha – 2900m) and alon
g more remote transects elsewhere in the region. Our research will require a small field crew to begin work during the summer months (June – August) and a larg er field crew for the longer
fall season (August – December). We have a number of volunteer positions available. Primary activities in this work include nest searching and monitoring as well as mist-netting and banding,
collection of samples from captured birds, vegetation plots, field recordings, metabolic measurements, and playback experiments.
We work six days a week at each field station from approximately 6am to 6pm, with occasional data entry and organization in the
evenings. Mist-netting teams are expected to hike to and work in more remote are as for up to two weeks at a time. Field conditions are variable, depending on the field station to which assistants are assigned. Please visit our webpage (link below) for specific details on each station. In all cases, communication is limited at best, and assistants can expect to be out of touch for 2-3 weeks at a time. We camp in tents for the entirety of the season and cook for ourselves (rice, pasta, legumes, cassava, plantain, and fresh-ish vegetables). At field stations, generator power is available on a nightly basis.
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