Travel to Peru, Cusco and Machu Picchu.

Pisco wins award in Brussels
A panel of 174 international experts had praise for Peruvian pisco in the category of spirits at the World Wine Contest in Brussels. The competition awarded medals to wines from France, Chile, South Africa, Canada, and for the first time, China. Pisco Italia, distilled by the Ocucaje vineyard, won a gold medal, and Gran Comodoro 2003, produced by Agroindustrial Viejo Tonel, took the silver. The pisco brands 100 Años (Ocucaje) and Acholado Gran Cruz 2003 (Natufrut) won bronze medals.

Alternative tourism benefiting Amazon communities
Five communities, inhabited by over 2,000 natives in the Amazonas region are benefiting from the Promartuc alternative tourism project, which promotes co-existence in natural environments and archaeological sites in the Peruvian jungle.
The project, run by Caritas and financed by the Italian-Peruvian Fund, promotes the concept of ‘solidarity tourism’, which enables the inhabitants of Chachapoyas, the capital of Amazonas, to handle tourist demand and at the same time raise their living standards. The first part of the project set about training the local inhabitants to get them to guide tourists and provide food and lodging.
The program also trained them to increase production and hone the quality of their pottery, textiles and dairy products, without losing the originality of their products and the time-honored techniques used to make them.

Fast train will operate route Cusco-Puno
A new proposal to join the regions of Cusco and Puno is the fast train. This new transportation system will join these cities in only 2 hours . The present train takes 10 hours now for the same route. The train system will cover Desaguadero, Puno, Juliaca, Cusco and Machu Picchu.

Sipan amongst the best museum in the world
The Art News magazine from New York included the Tumbas Reales museum in Lambayeque, Peru as one of the 10 best not well known museums in the world.