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Cusco Travel Guide
Festivities
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Top festivities in Cusco & surroundings are:
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Virgen de Carmen, Paucartambo (mid-June): This highland village 4 hours from Cusco puts on one of Peru’s most spectacular festivals in mid-June, when thousands descend on the town to honor the Virgen del Carmen, patron saint of the mestizo population, with 4 days of wildly festive music, dance, and costumes. For photographers, this is one of the most visually vibrant festivals in Peru. |
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Inti Raymi (June 24): The greatest of all pre-Columbian festivals, the “Inca Festival of the Sun” celebrates winter solstice and honors the sun god with vibrant pageantry, parades, and dances, drawing thousands of visitors to the principal event at the Sacsayhuamán ruins. Note that this is Peru’s most famous and best-attended fiesta, and it in fact lasts for several days. If you plan to attend or visit Cusco during the last week in June, it’s imperative that you make travel plans many months in advance. |
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Corpus Christi (early June): A procession of saints and virgins arrives at the Cusco Catedral to “greet” the body of Christ, and an overnight vigil is followed by another procession around the Plaza de Armas. |
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Easter Week (Semana Santa, late March/early April): Colorful, reverent processions mark Easter Week; those in Cusco are among the very finest in Peru. |
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Perachapchi (January 20): in San Sebastián neighborhood on the outskirts of Cusco. Parades of musical groups take to the streets along with an extraordinary procession of barefoot indigenous peoples who carry the immense statue of Saint Sebastián, who always travels with a pair of live parrots. |
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Lord of the Earthquakes (Easter Monday, late March/early April): A 17th-century painting of Christ on the cross—said to have saved Cusco from a devastating earthquake—is paraded through the streets of the city. |
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Fiesta de la Cruz (May 2 and 3).:The Festival of the Cross, featuring folk music and dance, including “scissors dancers.” |
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Santuranticuy Fair (December 24): One of Peru’s largest arts-and-crafts fairs, held in the Plaza de Armas of Cusco, with figurines and Nativity scenes as well as ceramics, carvings, pottery, and retablos (altars) for sale. |
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More than 15 years of publications, including 220 books and guides about Peru and its environment. |
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More than 15 years of publications, including 220 books and guides about Peru and its environment, five encyclopedias and more than 1,000 articles in magazines in Peru and abroad. He is considered the most prolific publisher on ecological topics in the country in the last decade. Forest engineer, journalist, publisher, professional photographer and analyst of environmental topics, Wust is the only Peruvian to publish five articles in National Geographic magazine. Currently he is the director of Wust Ediciones. |
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Ten years crisscrossing Peru, producing 240 TV programs on diverse topics. |
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Ten years crisscrossing Peru, producing 240 TV programs on diverse topics. A journalist and writer, for nearly a decade he has directed and hosted the TV program Tiempo de Viaje, in which he travels throughout Peru (and occasionally other countries), documenting natural, historical and human scenes infrequently visited by conventional tourism. His perspective is not that of a tourist, but of a traveler, who immerses himself in what he finds and shies away from nothing in his reporting. He is also the author and/or publisher of an extensive series of books about Peruvian culture. |
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The author of 15 travel guides to cities and countries around the world, including 4 editions of Frommer’s Peru. |
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The author of 15 travel guides to cities and countries around the world, including 4 editions of Frommer’s Peru, and articles on subjects ranging from the travel industry to food and wine. A travel writer, journalist and photographer, Schlecht first traveled to Peru and trekked to Machu Picchu as a student in 1983, and he has returned repeatedly to Peru over the last two decades. He has also been a consultant on international development projects for the European Union and USAID, as well as a correspondent for a Spanish art magazine. |
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With nearly 15 years of travel experience, and having lived in different places in Peru. |
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With nearly 15 years of travel experience, and having lived in different places in Peru. Agronomist, theologist, and holding an M.A in Amazonian anthropology. He’s lived 7 years with the Aguarunan people of Alto Marañon; also in Huanchaco (Trujillo), Urubamba (Cusco), and Madre de Dios. Consultant in tourism, collaborator for several media resources and professor of Sustainable Tourism Diploma at Ruiz de Montoya University. |
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