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Cusco ofrece a sus turistas una variedad de suculentos platos como es el Timpu más conocido como puchero ,  que se prepara durante los carnavales, y que consiste en hervir un pecho de vaca, cabeza de cordero, tocino y patas, para añadir luego hojas enteras de col, papas, moraya, garbanzos y arroz. En una olla aparte se hierven camotes, duraznos, peras y yucas. Ambos alimentos se sirven en platos separados, de forma similar al “sancochado”, pero cubriendo con una hoja de col.

How to avoid a village empty of tourists? The Cusco chamber of tourism has recently updated a plan it originally proposed to the regional government in 2009: a project outlining the construction of four alternative access routes to the world wonder, three of which would be feasible to implement before the centennial this July.
The plan estimates that these new paths would cost around $78 million overall, but an initial investment of $5 million would be enough for tourists who arrive during the upcoming high season, which begins in June, to be able to use at least three.
One proposed route is the road along Cusco-Limatambo-Mollepata-Santa Teresa-Hidroeléctrica de Machu Picchu. According to Valencia, the road is paved up to Limatambo. To habilitate it would require leveling the piece between Mollepata and Machu Picchu. “An investment of about $3 million,” he said.

In order to pave the entire road, the cost would rise to approximately $70 million. This option would reduce the arrival time to Machu Picchu to two and a half hours from Cusco, since it would be a distance of only 150 kilometers.

Another alternative would be to follow the route Cusco-Ollantaytambo-Abra de Málaga-Santa Teresa-Hidroeléctrica de Machu Picchu, a route already used in the dry season. The new proposal is to construct a lift to allow travelers to cross over the hydroelectric power station, which would cost about $3 million.

Perhaps the most feasible new route would be to take advantage of the network of Inca trails and pave certain segments that branch off from the main road at kilometers 113.5, 115, 117 and 119. This would require an investment of only $2 million, according to the report.

En Perú, del primer sábado de Marzo hasta el segundo domingo de Marzo se celebra el festival de la vendimia el motivo es la celebración de la cosecha de uvas. Actualmente, la pisa de la uva la inicia ceremonialmente la Reina de la Vendimia y su corte en unas celebraciones que duran 7 días y constan de concursos de vinos y piscos, pelea de gallos y se presentan los siempre vistosos caballos de paso y para amenizar la fiesta se presentan artistas nacionales e internacionales.

La Vendimia es la única fiesta de la uva. Donde se celebran el Pisco 100% Peruano.

Las orquídeas son una de plantas que se distinguen por la complejidad de sus flores y por sus interacciones ecológicas con los agentes polinizadores y con los hongos que forman micorrizas.
La diversidad de orquídeas que tiene el distrito de Machupicchu  es otro atractivo que presenta el Santuario y cada año atrae a más turistas.
Por ese motivo, el jardín especializado de orquídeas que tienen bajo su cuidado Inka Terra Asociación e Inka Terra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel, es considerado el más grande del mundo in situ, donde se encuentran 372 especies, de las 1,650  que hay en el Peru, de las cuales, gracias a estudios realizados, 19 fueron descubiertas allí, y donadas a la ciencia por ese motivo.

Durante la inauguración de la Primera Conferencia Científica Internacional de Conservación de Orquídeas realizada en la ciudadela inca, se aseguró que la preservación de esta planta puede incrementar el turismo en la zona y mejorar los ingresos de los agricultores.

In the province of the Convention – Cusco Peruvian archaeologists found remains of more than 1200 years old in which human remains were found.
In the archaeological site of Vilcabamba Espiritupampa discovered a tomb that had been occupied by a ruler Wari “Lord Vilcas” which had its heyday between 600 and 1200 AD.
In the funerary context was found a grave with a silver chest in a “Y”, two side arms with pictures of cats, a mask, gold bracelets, two Chonta’s  wooden staves (local wood), 234 silver sheets, of which 90% have an ovoid shape and the rest is circular.

All attachments have the Wari style and the objects found were used in the burial’s nobility of the pre-Inca culture.
“What we found was the Lord Wari’s  tomb covered with two slabs of stone, carries a pectoral, bracelets and scepters of gold and silver, ” he told to the press the director of INC Cusco, Juan Garcia.

En la provincia de la Convención – Cusco, Arqueólogos peruanos encontraron restos de más de 1200 años de antigüedad en los cuales se hallaron restos humanos. En  el complejo arqueológico de Espiritupampa en Vilcabamba se descubrió una tumba que habría sido ocupada por un gobernante Wari “Señor Vilcas”, que tuvo su apogeo entre los años 600 y 1200 de nuestra era.
En el contexto funerario se halló una tumba con un pectoral de plata en forma de “Y”, dos brazos laterales con figuras de felinos, una máscara, brazaletes de oro, dos báculos de madera de Chonta (madera del lugar), 234 láminas de plata, de las cuales el 90% tiene forma ovoide y el restante es circular.
Todos los aditamentos tienen el estilo Wari y los objetos hallados eran usados en el entierro de la nobleza de esa cultura pre inca.

“Lo que hemos hallado es una tumba del Señor de Wari cubierta con dos lajas de piedra, lleva consigo un pectoral, brazaletes y cetros de oro y plata” dijo a la prensa el director del INC en Cusco, Juan García.

Perú is proud to have a drink of excellent quality these last days will satisfy the thirst of consumers.
Georgios Patsi, United Distilleries business manager, indicated that the support given to pisco has caused the market growth is directed toward the drink and not to other liquors, including rum. Even said “Pisco is now the drink is consumed more by volume, for there is much that is traditional pisco.”
This does not mean that you are removing pisco rum market, but has slowed its growth, estimated between 1% and 2% annually, which is also due to already reached market maturity.
He said that even the level of consumption of rum in Peru is low, considering that reaches one million cases (9 liters) per year, below countries like Colombia, where the demand is about 4.5 million boxes.

United Distilleries has opted to venture into the category of pisco through two brands: Miracle Holy Well Holy Well. The first one has two years on the market and the other only one.
Given these favorable points for the pisco culminated noting, “As major players in the rum and seeing that the business is growing in the pisco, we have to enter this arena.”

Coca (Erythroxylum coca) (Quechua kuka) is a kind of flowering plant family of South American native Erythroxylacene the rugged foothills of the Andes Amazon.
Has an important role in Andean culture, as an analgesic in medical interventions.
It is used by Andean cultures and nations Chibcha, Aymara and Quechua, as an analgesic.

Coca leaves have a number of substances known as alkaloids in their internal composition. Cocaine is only one of them. Possessing stimulant, anesthetic, therapeutic, and mitigation of hunger, thirst and fatigue, manifested by chewing or cooking.

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La coca (Erythroxylum coca) (quechua:kuka) es una especie botánica de planta con flor sudamericana de la familia de las Eritroxiláceas originaria de las escarpadas estribaciones de los Andes amazónicos.
Tiene un papel importante en las culturas andinas, como analgésico en intervenciones médicas.

Es utilizada por culturas andinas como las naciones Chibcha, Aymará y Quechua, como analgésico.
Las hojas de coca poseen varias sustancias conocidas como alcaloides en su composición interna. La cocaína es sólo una de ellas. Posee propiedades estimulantes, anestésicas, terapéuticas y mitigadoras del apetito, la sed y el cansancio, que se manifiestan mediante la masticación o el cocimiento.

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This area contains terraces, waterways, inca trail, flora and fauna. New sector will be ready in a year to receive visitors
The specialists of the Ministry of Culture Cusco (formerly INC) find no written references Inkarakay, Inca site that until recently lay hidden in the dark side of the mountain Huayna Picchu, Cusco. Inkaraqay, near the site known as Eastern Andenes (on the east side of the mountain Machu Picchu) will be integrated into the tourist circuit of the Archaeological Park.

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