Articles Written By: Rick Vecchio
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Aging in the ageless Moche portrait vessels
"Artistically, the Moche were the most remarkable civilization of the Americas. There's no other civilization in the America's that came up with the quality of…
Top 10 Peruvian Superstitions for the Savvy Traveler
Superstitions, every country has them — irrational and supernatural beliefs of things to come, borne of myth, tradition and necessity. But few places offer as wondrous a collection of these foreboding, mystical and cheerful maxims as Peru.
Happy Easter 2012 from Fertur Peru Travel
Enjoy this slide show of photos of this year’s Semana Santa celebrations in the Peruvian highland city of Ayacucho. The pictures were taken by Marisol Chancos, operations director of Maki International.
The story of the bewitching Perricholi
In a verdant valley outside the provincial capital city of Huanuco lies the “village of bewitchment” Tomayquichua, the legendary birth place of one of Peru’s most famous Colonial-era women, Micaela Villegas, the “Perricholi.”