Dear
Readers,Welcome to the first delivery of our Perutourism newsletter. We are happy to share with you this monthly virtual magazine, thought to keep you update with some attractive information about Peru. Here you'll find interesting articles of many subjects related to our history, culture, customs, folk art and any other issues about Peru. As well, you could find news and curiosities from this country where the richness of the culture and the magic of the nature cohabit in a perfect harmony.
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Cynthia Orjeda & Jose Lahura
Pisco is a brandy made originally from the fermented juice of the Quebranta
grape, a Muscatel variety that grows in the Ica region of southwestern Perú
and in the Elqui valley of Chile (left, formerly part of southern Perú).Popular legend traces the origin of pisco to an ancient Incan ceremonial alcoholic beverage. This is inaccurate (the Incas never grew grapes), but it is certain that the recipe is over 400 years old. The only alcoholic beverage attributed to the Incas was chicha, technically a beer (sour mash) made from corn. The corn was mashed and fermented in a clay vessel buried in the ground. The Quechua (the prominent Inca tribal group) word for the clay vessel is pisco*.
The Spanish brought Muscatel and winemaking to South America, and with it the distilling of wine into aguardiente (brandy). The Muscatel, a dark, aromatic, high-sugar...
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That Machu Picchu means old mountain?
That Peru has 84 of the 104 eco-systems found in the world?
The Alpamayo mount was named as the most beautiful peak in the world in
Germany in 1960?
The treks inside the National Reserve allow to discover the extraordinary
beauty of the gullies and the beaches along the rivers. They are also a perfect
occasion to know directly from the mouths of the local habitants the huge
variety of medicinal plants. It would never stops to surprise how an active
and present knowledge, created by nobody in particular but by all of the people
that participated in a unique history of harmonic relationship with nature,
works.Eat recently hunted carachupa’s meat or a forty frogs soup for breakfast, drink masato, sail for hours on a peque-peque or a raft, talking with the native entrepreneurs, have become, in our experience to be the charming moments of these weird task that consist in discover the far away borders of Peru. Against to anything people could imagine, the ecotourism not only allows the travelers of the world to know the beauty of the Manu Reserve; it also creates a development alternative for the communities. Of course, with the state of protect an preserve. As the natives from the Alto Madre de Dios say: "Ijwai, greetings from the forest".
Ancient
map of the Inca Highway returns to PeruA map dating from 1753 and on which the whole Inca Highway is traced, was acquired by the collector Jorge Gruenberg, president of the board of “Banco Financiero”, who bought the document in Switzerland. Gruenberg has placed the document at the disposal of the cultural authorities. This map confirms that in Tahuantinsuyo (Inca´s Empire) there were roads that connected various centers of production with what is now Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and the northern part of Argentina.
Pachamanca
Peru's National Culture Institute (INC) has declared the Pachamanca to be a "Cultural Heritage of the Country." The term Pachamanca comes from the Quechua word meaning "earth pot" and is used for the procedure of cooking certain foods in an open pit in the earth with the heat given off by stones previously heated to high temperatures. This technique dates from time immemorial and was used by the ancient Peruvian cultures, subsisting today as part of the festivities celebrated by various peoples of Peru.
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