Easter in Ayacucho is considered the most moving and beautiful religious festival in Peru. The entire population of the city gets involved in a week of processions, religious fervor and raucous street parties, and thousands flock to Ayacucho from around…

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Native communities in Peruvian Amazon There are 72 ethnic groups or indigenous communities in Peru. Sixty-five of them live in the Amazonian jungle. The majority were converted to Christianity by Catholic missionaries but they’ve maintained ancestral customs their art and…

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Pisac is famous for its arts, craft and food market that takes over the town, and for the ruins of a fortress that stands on a high ridge nearby. It marks the starting point of the Sacred Valley of the…