With plenty of experience of their own, Peruvian rescue teams have been hard at work since arriving in the western half of the Carribean island.
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A tale of colonial ships and Peruvian gold
In May 2007, US company Odyssey Marine Exploration discovered $500,000,000 of Peruvian gold and silver coins from the sunken colonial ship Nuestra Señora del las Mercedes. Spain immediately claimed the bounty as property of the Spanish crown, as did Peru. The saga begins more than 200 years ago, and is one that is only now coming to an end.
Torrential rains in Cusco damage Inca wall at Sacsayhuamán
Heavy rains have not only affected Lima this year, what is traditionally the start of the Andean wet-season has also seen rains heavier than usual, some even damaging ancient walls at the Inca site of Sacsayhuamán.
Volunteer at ancient Chan Chan
Does toiling under the hot desert sun heaving bricks up a ladder to rebuild collapsing walls interest you? What if the walls were many hundreds and hundreds of years old and part of the world’s largest adobe city, one of the largest cities of any kind in the ancient world? A city home to the rulers of the Peruvian desert coast, the Chimú imperial heart of Chan Chan. Does a couple of days of hands-on archaeology at one of the world’s most important archaeological sites interest YOU?
Lima sees six months of rain in one week
Lima – the mild rainless desert city, but for how long? Winters have been growing colder and wetter, summers arriving later than ever.
This week alone, supposedly the first full week of the first month of summer if we discount November – a time when most of the population of Lima usually heads to the beach – has seen 50% of Lima’s typical annual rainfall after an already wet winter.
School kids attack Chan Chan’s finest huaca
Terrible news for lovers of Peru’s ancient history and archaeology enthusiasts: Peruvian school children viciously attack one of the greatest works of their ancestors.
The group filmed themselves throw rocks, kick and scratch the ancient friezes of the Huaca Arco Iris, also known as the Huaca del Dragón, to later post on You Tube to show off to friends. One, putting on a Spanish accent, films them saying “kick it, kick it, this is how you love your Peru, no?”.
Colonial jewel in Peru’s capital to be restored with UN help
As part of a United Nations-backed plan to restore historical architectural gems that have deteriorated into slums, residents of Rimac, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Peru’s capital, Lima, will start registering property titles as of 2010 in an effort to restore the priceless landmarks.
Peru’s Panettone Is Fake, Says Italy [Featured]
Peruvians and Brazilians love their locally-made panettone, an Italian-style Christmas cake that’s grown into a multimillion-dollar business for bakers in South America.
Now the Italian Cake Industry group wants non-Italian manufacturers to conform to strict baking standards or stop calling their cakes “panettone,”
Peru begins reforestation, 60 million trees to be planted
After centuries of heavy deforestation, Peru is undertaking a campaign to reforest the highlands with 60 million trees – an act that not only helps prevent the terrible flash floods that plague the tree-less mountains, but also hopes to make a small dent in climate change affecting the country.
Piura, Mucho Gusto!
Three days of delicious flavours from Piura, as the best restaurants from this northern city, and the region, gather for the first “Perú, Mucho Gusto” gastronomic fair outside of Lima.
NBC Nightly News: Melting Glaciers lead to water wars
Three reports from NBC’s Nightly News program about the devastating impact on Peru from melting glaciers due to changing climate patterns.
Four ceremonial fountains discovered at Machu Picchu
The Incas possessed what was the culmination of all Andean hydraulic engineering knowledge developed over millennia by the civilisations that came before them. This knowledge is said by experts to have been far superior to that of the Spanish who conquered them and wiped it out for ever. As good a place as any to witness the evidence of their impressive skills is at Machu Picchu, and it is at this famous site that yet more discoveries have been made.
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