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Editors’ note: Happy Holidays

Dear Readers,
This is a very special time of the year, December means a lot. It is time to share and the perfect opportunity to review our achievements and future goals. So lets all feel the essence of the renovation floating in the air, lets take it and convert it into more and better reasons to be helpful persons to our fellows.
In this deliver we are proud to introduce you the newest marvel Peru and Cusco have to show to the world: Choquequirao complex, the last spot were the Inca resistance remain for about 50 years after the Spaniard conquest. This discover is just comparable to Machu Picchu citadel, one of the Seven Wonders of the modern world.
Also, we give you a glimpse of La Marinera, one of our most popular traditional dances, with a coreography full of coquetry, sensuality and graceful dance steps.
The Perutourism staff wish to you and your family a happy holidays!
Regards
José and Cynthia

Main Article: Choquequirao, the last Inca shelter

Spectacular and distant, lonely and forgotten, Choquequirao (3,085 m.a.s.l.) is built at the top of a mountain almost untouched in the province of La Concepción, department of Cusco. This fact explains why it became, along 40 years, the last resistance point of the Sun's children who were looking for shelter under its stone walls when Manco Inca, the rebel Inca, was defeated.
Its palaces and temples in two levels, systems of fountains, canals and aqueducts and its fantastic land shelves covered by thick vegetation were presumably built during the Inca Pachacutec government ( XV century) and it is only compared to Machu Picchu, the most visited archaeological site in Peru.
Choquequirao is divided into two zones and its stone buildings are forming small villages. The governors' houses and the main temple are located around its main square. Researchers state that the complex have been an important religious, politic and economic centre as well as a commercial and cultural link among the Coast, the Highlands and the Jungle.
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La Marinera: The endless courtship dance

White handkerchiefs that seem to float in the air. Vibrant sound of guitars and "cajones" (typical Peruvian musical instrument made of a wood box), of drums and bugles. Claps that accompany and mark the rhythm and that become accomplices of a fine courtship, of a romantic persecution.
The man, straw hat in hand, imitates the walking of an energetic steed and surrounds his couple. The woman, coquettish and barefoot, comes closer while she smiles and shakes her skirt... and it seems that she is accepting the courtship, but then she escapes overflowing grace and sensuality.
This is La Marinera: a whirl of blinks, movement and sexy smiles. A retinue dance in which love is born of the magic movement of the handkerchiefs and that, as they say, represents the impossible romance between a turkey and a steed.
Being the most popular typical dance of Peru, different schools and dancing styles exist. La Marinera Limeña (original of Lima, the capital city), is of moderate and elegant movements; the Northern one, full with romance, imitates the cadence of a Horseback Riding, while the Marinera ña has an Andean shade.
La Marinera is danced in almost every corner of the country, but it is more popular in the north coast, mainly in Trujillo city considered as the capital of this dance, because as their same residents say, couples fall in love when dancing it.

Updated News about Peru

Explorers Rediscover Incan City Near Machu Picchu
An Anglo-American team of explorers have found an Incan city lost for centuries in the Peruvian jungles despite being within sight of the key religious center at Machu Picchu.
Using infrared aerial photography to penetrate the forest canopy, the team led by Briton Hugh Thomson and American Gary Zeigler located the ruins at Llactapata 50 miles northwest of the ancient Incan capital, Cusco.
They found stone buildings including a solar temple and houses covering several square miles in the same alignment with the Pleiades star cluster and the June solstice sunrise as Machu Picchu, which was a sacred center.
Not only was Llactapata probably a ceremonial site in its own right, excavations suggested that it might also have acted as a granary and dormitory for its sacred neighbor, he added.

Peru's authorities stop threaten to Machu Picchu
The number of daily visitors allowed to see the archaeological site of Machu Picchu in Peru may soon be halved if proposed restrictions to stop damage to the ruined Inca city take effect.
The site draws an average of 1,000 people a day, but the Peruvian National Institute of Culture wants to restrict the maximum to 500. The government organisation is responsible for protecting and restoring the country's cultural heritage. Machu Picchu is one of the must-see places in the world. It lies 2,430ft above sea level in the Peruvian rainforest and is over more than years old. But the explosion in tourism at the site has caused growing concerns for conservationists, archaelogists and geologists.