Rachel Gamarra explains that while the world’s economies fall into recession, Peru’s is racing ahead as Peruvians increased their spending by a huge 19% in 2008. With the country’s economy only growing at about 9% and wages remaining stable, where is this money coming from?
Category: "Life"
Loosing weight in Peru [Featured]
Rachel Gamarra explains how Peru’s abundance of fresh, unprocessed, nourishing, tasty and cheap food can help keep you slim, and tells of her first experience in a Peruvian supermarket and how it compares to one in her home country, the super-sized United States.
The last of the Taushiros
Peru’s Amazon rainforest has seen the last of the great Taushiro nation. Prospering in the area of the Quebrada Aguaruna in Alto Tigre, Loreto, for thousands of years, the Taushiro, like countless other tribes, have been wiped out by us and our world.
Nine fingered destiny of Maria Reiche
One of the stranger tales told about the Nazca Lines and the work done on finding their meaning by the great Maria Reiche begins not long after the German first arrived in Peru. She had, when leaving her native Germany for Peru in the early…
Lima’s toxic smog of death is now 11.77% less deadly
Air quality in Lima has never been good, mostly thanks to the high humidity and fog. But when dictator Alberto Fujimori passed laws to allow second-hand ancient, deadly and heavily polluting cars to be imported from abroad, air quality took a massive hit. Though it never rains, grey clouds took on a hint of black, and a thick soot blanketed the city.
Could the Nazcans fly?
It is a mystery as yet unsolved. How were the ancient Nazca able to draw such huge and complicated designs in the barren Nazca plains, drawings so large that they are only visible from the air? Could it be that this pre-Inca civilisation mastered some form of flight allowing them to both create and appreciate their work? Some think so.
APEC 2008 comes to a close
As the security fences and blockades are pulled down, and life in Lima gets back to normal, Peru can be proud that it successfully held such a large scale international event. The numbers of delegates and the numbers of heads of state all in the capital city at the same time was unprecedented for the country, but despite Peru’s reputation for inefficiency everything went surprisingly well.
Porongo – Mates Burilados
The porongo, calabaza de peregrino or, in English, the Calabash fruit is traditionally used in South America as a container for mate, tea made from various herbs. In recent years, Peru’s artisans have been using them to create beautiful works of art to sell to foreign visitors.
A walk along the Costa Verde
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there’s nothing nicer than a walk along the Lima’s Costa Verde on a sunny day. Big changes have been taking place over the past 5 years. The old historic but sadly decaying houses along the cliff front have been gradually pulled down and new apartment blocks built in their place, while the once ugly and unsafe cliff-top between the lighthouse in Miraflores and the district of San Isidro is now greener and wealthier than ever. Expensive apartments now overlook children’s play areas and green spaces with pristine pathways, benches, and flower gardens.
Día de la Canción Criolla… en Londres?? [Featured]
Creole Song Day… in London??
Alan Malarkey writes, with photos, from London.
El Fayke Piurano
I’ve been spending a lot of time in central Lima recently, so naturally I have been using a significant amount of that time to eat. After serious study, I have come to the conclusion that the best place to eat in central Lima is… drum roll… El Fayke Piurano
Potato Planting in Chinchero [Featured]
VIDEO – In November 2002, I was blessed with being invited to Chinchero to help plant papas. Puma and his family and others all work together to get the job done. The clouds come in with rain and sleet, then they burn some brush to send the clouds and rain away. – crickethanna
