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Machu Picchu’s centenary celebration to be viewed by 500 million people
The ceremony, which will be held on July 7th 2011 in the Incan citadel will be broadcast via satellite. Canales detailed that Peruvian Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa will open the centennial ceremony. The program includes greetings to special guests such as Peru’s President Alan Garcia, the Heads of State of the other six wonders of the world and Cusco’s governor and mayor. Furthermore, 250 journalists from around the world and 250 entrepreneurs (100 international businessmen and 100 related to the tourism sector) will also attend the event. Canales added that ten of Bingham’s grandchildren have also been invited. “They are really motivated as it is an important event, something that has made history and they want to be part of it”. Source: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=fOnptLbS6DM=
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Thu, Dec 23 |
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Cusco to celebrate year-end holidays with art, rituals and dances
According to the schedule, the most important activities include the Santuranticuy fair, where popular artisans show and sell their best artistic pieces at the city’s main square. The 23th Contest of Traditional Andean Nativity Scenes -organized by Cusco’s Festivities Municipal Enterprise (Emufec) - takes place on December 26th, with the aim of spreading the Christmas spirit through popular art. The competition is divided into four categories: public institutions, companies, churches, convents and families. The jury visits the place where the crib is situated to evaluate it. Aspects to be considered include symbolism, message, creativity and complementary elements. The Situa Raymi ceremony, Inca ritual to pay homage to the moon, will be held on December 27th, reported the Regional Directorate of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Directur). Source: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=RCd4jg4BLq8=
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Mon, Dec 13 |
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Machu Picchu, a must-visit for holidays to South America
Peru attracts thousands of
tourists each year, all wanting to see some of the relics of the
Inca civilisation and if you are planning Latin America holidays,
you should have the country near the top of your list,
travelbite.co.uk recommended.
Along the way, you may come across
a number of exotic creatures if you are lucky, including the
spectacled bear - which is now endangered - the pampas cat and
the Andean condor. Machu Picchu has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1983 and is described by the organisation as "an outstanding example of man's interaction with his natural environment". If you are particularly keen to explore a number of Inca sites then you may want to book tailor made holidays to South America to ensure that you do not miss out on any of the places you want to visit.
Before you set off for
Machu Picchu, you
will stay in the town of Cusco, which exhibits some signs of its
Incan heritage and is an excellent place to prepare for your
journey into the mountains. Source:
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=fDKGA2OzWiw=
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Mon, Dec 13 |
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Peru’s luxury tourism to grow in 2011
These investments are being driven by an increase in demand for luxury travel in the country, and new airline routes opening. 2011 will also be a bumper year for the country, which will be celebrating the centenary of the Rediscovery of Machu Picchu by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham in July. Promperu’s coordinator for Asia Pacific Rosana Guinea says that, although adventurous travellers are key to their market, there has been an increase in higher yield travellers in recent years and both markets are being buoyed by increased air capacity. “Both the range and quality of the services provided within the tourism industry in Peru have improved dramatically in recent years. Tourists are spending more money whilst in Peru and the visitor profile is changing which is driving the demand for more luxury accommodation and facilities,” states Rosana Guinea. At the same time, Lima is becoming more accessible with increased flight connections from around the world allowing more visitors to enter the country. Looking to capitalise on this increased capacity and demand for luxury, Peru is welcoming investments from international and domestic companies wishing to expand and open new restaurants and hotels. From January 2011, travellers from Australia to Peru will have faster and easier journeys with LAN Airlines introducing new nonstop flights from Santiago de Chile to Peru’s capital Lima. According to etravelblackboard.com, Other new code-share arrangements with airlines such as Cathay Pacific are also including Lima in their network, further enhancing connections. Source: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=E87nRRnkCEY=
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Mon, Dec 06 |
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Peru: 'sensational' Inca find for British team in Andes
The find, which was made on an isolated Andean mountainside, provoked joy among local specialists and the experts present from, among others, the British Museum, Reading University and Royal Holloway, University of London. No examples of the stones were thought to have survived until now. "It was a very moving moment," said Dr Colin McEwan, the British Museum's head of the Americas, as he recalled seeing the stones for the first time. According to The Observer, Dr Frank Meddens, research associate of Royal Holloway, who was also on the expedition, said they had "danced a little jig on top of the mountain" after discovering the objects that they had only read about in 16th-century Spanish documents. The Incas would have been just as overawed. The conical-shaped stones were among the most significant items in Inca society and religion. Key elements in ritual events, they were thought to facilitate a connection between different realms of the world – the celestial and the underworld of the ancestors – with the Inca king, as the divine ruler, acting as intermediary. And they were considered more precious than gold. "This is a whole new category of object. It is nothing short of sensational," said McEwan of the three stones in red and white Andesite, a hard, granite-like rock, which were excavated some 2.5 metres beneath an Inca stone platform. The platform too was recently excavated and is a structure of distinctive stonework that once symbolised the imperial control of conquered territories. The site – at Incapirca Waminan – is one of 20 undocumented high-altitude Inca ceremonial platforms explored by the archaeologists around the Ayacucho basin. Such sites were potent imperial symbols of religious and political authority as the Incas expanded outwards from Cuzco, a sacred city of temples and palaces in the central Peruvian Andes. Ancestor stones represented deities, ancestors and the sun, and were imbued with supreme symbolic significance. They were greeted with incomprehension by Spanish chroniclers of the early 16th century, who sacrilegiously likened their shape to sugar loaves, pineapples and bowling pins. The insult, however, was returned: when the 16th-century Inca ruler Atahualpa was shown a copy of the Bible by the Conquistadors, he reacted with similar contempt. According to Spanish sources, the stones were used in public solar rituals, sometimes draped in gold cloth and paraded. One witness wrote: "The stones… were held to be blessed and sacred." Symbols of the ancestral essence of the Inca king, the objects were placed on display when the supreme leader was absent from Cuzco, the capital of the Inca people, in an attempt to demonstrate the perpetual presence and his power. The Incas believed their king to be a living god who ruled by divine right. As the Incas had no system of writing, the significance of the archaeologists' unprecedented find is reinforced by the identification of ancestor stones in the decoration of a unique 16th-century Inca vessel (cocha) in the British Museum. Spanning 50cm in diameter, it bears a carved scene showing a central solar disc and two kneeling figures with their hands clasped as they honour an ancestor stone. They are flanked on either side by an Inca king and queen and high-ranking lords. The Incas created a huge empire that stretched more than 2,400 miles along the length of the Andes and whose economy was based on taxed labour, with its people farming and herding animals, working in mines and producing goods such as clothing and pottery. The sites for ceremonial platforms were chosen for their vistas of the snow-capped peaks, which were worshipped as mountain deities. It was at such sites that the Incas sacrificed children – the ceremony of capacocha – at moments of potential instability. These structures also had sacred central spaces known as the ushnu, with a vertical opening into "the body of the earth" into which libations such as maize beer were poured. The ushnu platforms served as a stage from which the Inca king and his lords could preside over seasonal festivals and ceremonies. Source http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=LFgAbQUyFbU=
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Fri, Dec 03 |
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Cusco launches e-ticket system to visit Machu Picchu
Details of this new purchase
method were explained in this event, which was attended by Vice
Minister of Interculturalism Jose Carlos Vilcapoma; Cusco’s
Culture Deputy Director Carlos Silva; and the Mayor of Machu
Picchu Edgar Miranda.
“When in Machu Picchu, you feel the energy and how better to do it by entering modernness,“ stated Vilcapoma. Source: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=X5B85rQIITk= |
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Lima,
Dec. 29. The centennial celebration of the discovery of
the Inca citadel of 
Cusco.-
Cusco, one of the main tourist attractions in Peru and
Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is ready to celebrate Christmas
and New Year by attracting tourists from different regions of
the world with different activities designed to strengthen local
customs and art expressions. 
Cusco,
When it comes to adventure and excitement on a holiday, it
doesn't get much better than trekking through beautiful scenery
to discover some astounding ancient ruins. 
Lima,
Dec. 13 . Peru is experiencing a
growth in luxury tourism with new hotels, ecological resorts and
gourmet restaurants opening in 2011 in key tourist locations.
Cusco,
Dec. 03. In order to facilitate
the purchase of tickets for the Inca citadel of
