With this extremely diverse country celebrating about 3,000 festivals a year, a trip to Peru anytime is a fascinating culture expertise. But with June to October seeing some of the most flamboyant and diverse festivals the country has to offer you, visiting at this time adds a special festive touch to a Peru tour.
Adventure Festival
30 June
Ancash
This adrenaline pumped festival attributes the roughest and wildest adventure a Peru tour has to provide. Which includes skiing, rafting, mountain biking, paragliding and hand gliding, all set against the majestic backdrop of the White Cordillera.
Virgen del Carmen Festival
15-16 July
Paucartambo, Cusco Region
Expertise the colourful procession along typical Peruvian village streets to celebrate and worship the Virgin of El Carmen or Mamacha Carmen. Take pleasure in Music and singing in Quechua, from groups representing passages of the history of Peru. On the central day, the Virgin blesses the attendants and casts off demons (acted by village consumers) that carry out risky acrobatics on roof tops. Stay for the impressive grand finale exactly where a war against demons erupts, but of course the faithful triumph!
Vilcas Raymi
28-30 July
Recognised in whole of Peru
This festival consists in the staging of a play that represents the battle in between the Inca's and the Chanka´s and the triumph of the Incas. Everybody gets involved, particularly kids. It begins off with ancestral rituals like the preparation of qora's maize liquor and Tinkachi performances (a Peruvian style of music). The open-air festival in the evening is an extraordinary spectacle with countless live performances of music and dance. In the daytime there are a number of activities, including a auto race, a food market serving Peruvian specialities, a donkey race, and a great deal more.
Lord of Miracles
18-19 October
Lima
Pretty much any will take in the capital, Lima. And in October tens of thousands of men and women take to the streets in downtown Lima wearing purple tunics, singing hymns and praying for the 'Lord of Miracles'. This festival dates back to colonial occasions where a slave from Angola drew an image of Christ on the walls of a hut in the Pachacamilla plantation close to Lima.
The image stayed on the walls even although several tried to erase it and as a outcome it was worshipped.
These days the celebration is 1 of the largest in Latin America.
International Spring Festival
October
Trujillo
Celebrate springtime in Peru in style with the acclaimed International Spring Festival in October in Trujillo. To mark the starting of spring, Peruvians celebrate all through the nation, but Trujillo in the north has gained a reputation for holding a festival of the greatest splendour.
During the week-extended festival, streets and homes are filled with decorations, floats are paraded by means of the city and troupes of schoolchildren dance through the streets, led by the beauty queen of the spring pageant. The beauty queen is normally flanked by cheer leaders who travel there from all more than the planet to show off their expertise.
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