Peru has exotic (and trendy) foods, wild llamas and… Chinese!
Cornfield
Forget our yellow and always the same cob. Nowhere in the world has as many varieties of corn as Peru. There are more than 50: red, purple, piebald, small and chubby, long and thin and even with giant or pointy grains!
Ask for a Chinese!
Peru has the largest Chinese community in Latin America. In the capital, Lima, there is a traditional Chinatown. The influence of immigrants is so great that the most popular dish in the country, lomo saltado, looks like Chinese food: the recipe includes, among other things, strips of meat, onion, tomato and soy sauce.
dangerous namesake
Amazonas is the name of one of the 25 regions (the Peruvian equivalent of our states) in the country. Unlike the Brazilian Amazon, it is a small region, covering 39,000 square kilometers, slightly larger than Alagoas. In the Cretaceous period, the Peruvian Amazon was already inhabited by the feared carnotaurus
there are stones
Greatest heir of the Inca civilization, Peru has well-hidden ruins. One of them is Choquequirao. It’s two days of heavy trail, far from any basic infrastructure. But that isolation may soon end. The government intends to build a cable car and transform the city into the new Machu Picchu
It’s not fashionable
Peruvian cuisine, driven by ceviche, has been in vogue for some years and has been considered one of the best in the world. There’s a reason: the country takes food seriously. There are even social programs that take children off the streets to train cooks. Cuisine is practically football in Peru
mystery doodle
The famous lines of the Nazca civilization were made over a thousand years ago. Mysteries hang over these people, so there are crazy theories about the lines, like the one that says they are landing pads for alien ships! Today, science believes they were part of rituals
angry animal
The llama is one of the country’s symbol animals, and it’s no wonder. She is cute, charismatic and fun. But the camelid is also one of nature’s hottest animals. When irritated, she fights, kicks, attacks with her neck. And – in case you were wondering – yes, she spits.
4,387 m and the altitude of a bank branch in Macusani, the highest in the world
Average rainfall in Lima: 33.22 mm/month (In Brasília it is 125.51 mm/month)
35th best airport in the world (Jorge Chavez). In Brazil, none is in the top 100
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SOURCES Animal Planet, World Bank, Guinness World Records, Ministry of the Environment (Peru), World Airport Awards 2015, The Guardian