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Virgen de la Candelaria (Candlemas, 1st 2 weeks of February): With musicians and dance troupes, and colorful processions of priests and pagans, including the famed dance of the demons, or la diablada, dancers in wild costumes and masks, and daily exhibitions of street dancing. |
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Carnaval (late February to early March): Rowdy pre-Lenten festivities, with water balloons, native dances, and lots and lots of drinking. |
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Puno Week (1st week of November): A major procession from the shores of Lake Titicaca to town , celebrating the legend of Manco Cápac, who established the Inca Empire. Dances and music, including spectacular “Day of the Dead” celebrations, and much drinking and proud partying. |
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Inmaculate Conception: This festival is on December 9 in the lovely colonial town of Lampa, is a ritual replete with authentic folkloric highlanders’ dances. Lampa is just 1 hour from Puno by highway, and even apart from the festival is one of altiplano’s most beautiful spots. |
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Miniature Festival: The festival of the Alacitas, or miniatures, takes place the first week of May every year; May 3 is the primary day, and exhibited are miniatures of almost anything you can imagine, houses and cars to university diplomas, cases of beer, and more. It is a ritual to have miniatures blessed with the image of the Virgen de la Gruta, followed by a ritualistic blessing of the yatiris in front of an image of the ekeko – part of an indigenous parallel system of religious faith that has been maintained since the Spanish imposed Catholicism in the altiplano. For the festival Av. Floral is closed off and quickly filled with small sales booths, while visitors will also encounter some brujos and yatiris that have come from Bolivia. |
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| Casa Andina Hotels in Puno |
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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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