Posted in: OthersNazca Lines
The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. The Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD. The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, orcas, llamas, and lizards. The largest figures are over 200 metres (660 ft) across. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but they generally ascribe religious significance to them.
Machipicchu
Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Lost City of the Incas", it is perhaps the most familiar icon of the Inca World. Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls.In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide Internet poll.
Peruvian cuisine
Peruvian cuisine is among the most diverse in the world, as evidenced by the fact that Peru has the largest number of dishes (491) and according to several understandings, has a level equivalent to the French food, Chinese and Indian food, and accoring to most experts, Peru has the best food in the world.
Restaurant The Rosa Nautica
The most representative tourist restaurant and important in Peru. It is a beautiful building built in white wood above the sea with a gateway to the sides of shops. La Rosa Nautica is one of the most important tourist symbols that have been in his memory the thousands of tourists.
Uros Island
Titicaca is notable for a population of people who live on the Uros, a group of 42 or so artificial islands made of floating reeds (totora, a reed that abounds in the shallows of the lake). These islands have become a major tourist attraction for Peru, drawing excursions from the lakeside city of Puno.
Paracas, Ballestas Islands
The Ballestas Islands are a group of small islands near the town of Paracas located within the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in the Ica Region, on the south coast of Peru. These islands are an important sanctuary for marine fauna like the guanay guano bird, the blue-footed booby and the tendril. Other notable species include Humboldt Penguins and two varieties of seals (fur seals and sea lions), amongst other mammals.
Arequipa city
The city has many colonial-era Spanish buildings built of sillar, a pearly white volcanic rock...
Huascarán
The highest southern summit of Huascarán (Huascarán Sur) is the highest point in Peru, the Amazon River watershed, and all the Earth's Tropics.
Huanchaco beach
Huanchaco is famous for a few things but particularly for being a surfer's dream spot and its caballitos de totora.
Inti Raymi
The Inti Raymi ("Festival of the Sun") was a religious ceremony of the Inca Empire in honor of the god Inti.
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