The Virgen de la Candelaria festival of 2010
Andrew Dare reports from one of the greatest parties in Peru, the Virgen de la Candelaria festival in Puno.
February 17, 2010 | Culture & History, Puno & Titicaca Guide
Posts Tagged "puno"
Without Machu Picchu you’ll enjoy the trip of a lifetime
SPECIAL: PERU WITHOUT MACHU PICCHU – Machu Picchu is closed. It will stay that way through all of February at the very least. Do you have your flights booked and are wondering what to do next? Should you cancel or put off your trip to Cuzco?
February 4, 2010 | Travel and Places
Civil war threatens to break out in the Andean region of Puno
Civil war threatens to break out between two districts in rural Puno after the recent deaths of 1o people and many more injured in the community of Chacayaje in the district of Ituata.
October 6, 2009 | News
The historic Yavarí sails again
The Yavarí Project have signed a 10 year concession to Yavarí Voyages that will see the old ship finally do what it was meant to – ferry passengers around Lake Titicaca.
Built in England in 1862, the Yavarí comprises of 2,766 pieces that arrived in Arica – then in southern Peru – to begin the long journey by hundreds of mules to Lake Titicaca to be reassembled. More than a century later, it was discovered in a state of disrepair by a British woman named Meriel Larken.
March 25, 2009 | News
30,000 illegal mines polute Lake Titicaca
President of the Autonomous Authority of Lake Titicaca, Julián Barra, said today that more than 30 thousand informal unregistered small scale mining operations near the world’s highest navigable lake are causing terrible pollution to both it an surrounding rivers.
September 22, 2008 | News
The Chuño – Dehydrated Potato of the Andes
The Chuño (or tunta) has fed families in Peru’s altiplano for more than seven thousand years. Today, with the growth in popularity of Novoandina food, the humble chuño has been thrust to the forefront of Peru’s gastronomic scene.
September 1, 2008 | Peruvian Food
Peru Says Chavez Backs Domestic Revolt
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Hugo Chavez has been accused of using Venezuela’s oil riches to meddle in Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Now, Peru’s president says the Venezuelan leader may be doing it here by funding militants and anti-poverty centers that preach populist revolution.
March 24, 2008 | News
Meteorite hits Peru, irradiates hundreds
Locals in towns south-east of the city of Puno, towards the Bolivian border reported seeing a orange-glowing object roar across the sky before plummeting into the earth creating a crater several metres wide. Despite this, and a small earthquake it caused, no-one was immediately hurt and it only became a concern when as many as 500 families, living in and near the town of Carancas where the meteorite hit, reported symptoms of possible radiation poisoning.
September 18, 2007 | News
Hugo Chavez spreads his influence in Peru
It has been more than a year since the Government of Hugo Chavez attempted to sway the Peruvian election in his favour by providing support to his candidate Ollanta Humala. At a time when foreign investment in the mining industry was and still is carrying almost 50% of the economy the idea was to kick out these investors and nationalise the industry. When Chavez resorted to insulting Humala’s opponents on his marathon TV show this led Peru to cut diplomatic ties in protest. After some months, Chavez came close to apologising when he met with President Alan Garcia and ties were restored.
August 4, 2007 | News
Puno’s great party: Virgen de la Candelaria
They say that only the carnival in Rio-Brasil and the carnival in Oruco-Bolivia compare to this, the biggest party in Peru in the city with the most traditional dances in the world – Puno.
February 18, 2007 | Culture & History, Puno & Titicaca Guide
Puno
Puno is a rather bleak former mining city that hugs the shores of Lake Titicaca. It is believed that from here, Manco Cápac – the first Inca king and direct descendent of the Sun – rose from the lake with his sister to found the Inca Empire.
The people here are both Aymara and Quechua, the Aymaras concentrated mostly to the south and east and Quechuas to the north and west.
October 26, 2006 | Culture & History, Puno & Titicaca Guide
Getting to Puno
Ormeño – bus company from hell
It often surprises me that at bus stations across Peru and beyond I see hundreds foreign tourists travelling with Ormeño, widely known here to be one of the worst bus companies on the continent. Unfortunately it’s a bus company featured in many of guidebooks written by people who seem to have never stepped foot in Peru.
October 25, 2006 | Opinion
