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Lima!

Parque del Amor (Love´s Park)

It is located on the Malecon Cisneros, was inaugurated on 14 February 1993 (Day of Love), presents in the middle a beautiful sculpture dedicated to love "The Kiss", authored by Peruvian artist Victor Delfin.

The streets in Lima: In colonial Lima there are streets with

weard names and anecdotes for this names, for example there is a street that is called "La inyección", because the first inyeccion that arrived to Lima was there.

In modern Lima we have a more modern style, with malls, bussiness, parks, etc..

San Francisco Museum: The San Francisco de Asis Museum in Lima is part of the Convent of St. Francis of Assisi in Lima, which is located in the historic center of the city, two blocks from the Main Square and the Government Palace. It is of great attraction to visit the catacombs of the Convent, number of passages where it was buried underground the ancient inhabitants of the capital and where are ther emains of more than 25,000 people.

Main Square:The main square of Lima city, has important architectural monuments and buildings, as the Archbishop of Lima, with its elegant balconies and the Government Palace, also has a magnificent bronze fountain dating from the 1650s.

Huaraz!

Introduction

Huaraz is a place where you can enjoy with your family many visiting touristic places like the Chavin Temples and going to the site museam, or enjoying the nature

at the Huascaran National Park , there you can visit the Orconcocha and Coroncocha lakes, both lakes form the Llanganuco lake. There is a legend about the Llanganuco lake that we will tell later. You can also visit the "Camposanto Yungay"

that is were hundreds of peo

pled died because of an earthquake. You can also do extreme sports like Climb

ing a mountain, boating in Santa´s river, Canyoning and many other sports, and the best is that....you don´t need

experience for do all this sports!!!.

And... You can also buy souvenirs like paintings, ceramic works, artesanies, clothes and

more!!!

So what are you waiting for? visit Huaraz and live wonderful experiences.

To get more informed about this wonderful city, in this blog you are going

to find all the information you need to know about Huaraz.

"Callejón de Huaylas" ( Huaylas Alley)

It is a wide Andean valley about 200 km long, the most important mountain ranges,the Cordillera Blanca and Cordillera Negra.The Santa River, which rises in theConococha lake to 4.100 m runs the entirelength of the valley, skirting the most pictures of cities and towns, the most important towns are Recuay, Huaraz, Carhuaz, Yungay and Caraz. In the Callejón de Huaylas there is a very famous National Park, The Huascaran National Park.

Story of Guitarrero

Guitarrero is a famous cave in Yungay(Callejon de Huaylas, Ancash region) where the American archaeologist Thomas Lynch discovered two estratrosof human presence in Peruvian pre-ceramic stage. Archaeological remains are 13,000 years old BC approximately (Lithic Period or Pre-agricultural). Here we found evidence of campfires and stone tools such ascrushers, stone hammers, a tip and a small knife lanceolate bifacial. The dates obtained by carbon-14 becomes the "Man of Guitarrero I" in "the oldest inhabitant of Peru" to this day known and confirmed.

In the Guitarrero´s cave lived a group of men and women. The men was dedicated to hunting, meanwhile the women began to agriculture, women also domesticated the "cuy", that was the first animal domesticated in the Andes.

Huascaran National Park

It is inside the "Callejón de Huaylas" and covers an area of 340.00 hectares of the Cordillera Blanca, which highlights the Huascaran (6,768 m), Peru's highest snow peak and the highest tropical mountain in the world. The

UNESCO has declared it as Natural Patrimony of Humanity. The natural attractions that stores are exotic flora and fauna, lakes and mountains and sparkling springs and hot springs.

Flora .- The most important and unique is the "Puya Raimondi." This plant reaches 12m. high, has a life cycle of approximately 30 years, six million flowers and scatterseeds. There are also species such as quenual, quisuar, orchids, etc. And also hallucinogenic plants like "The Floripondio Rosado", "The San Pedro", etc

"Puya Raimondy"

Fauna.- The fauna is also varied, being the best known species:

Deer, vicuna, spectacled bear, toruca, puma, fox and others. We also have the following birds: pichisanca or American Sparrow, dove , partridge,duck, frog, hummingbird, condor, etc.

Speclated Bear

The Llanganuco Lake

It is formed by two lakes: Orconcocha Lake and Coroncocha Lake. There is a legend about the formation of Llanganuco Lake, this legend tells the history of Huascar and Huandy. Huandy (or Huandoy) was a pretty princess that was the daughter of the god Inti. At the age of 15 Inti wanted Huandy to marry with a very powerful god, as powerful as him, but in Yungay, lived a man, a mortal man, called Huascar. Huascar and Huandy were in love, when Inti knew about the love of his daughter and Huascar, he was too angry that he sentenced them to be separated, so the princess Huandy was tied on the extreme of a mountain, Huascar was tied in the other side, so they would cry their love. The "Pacha Mama" (mother earth) felt compassion for them and turned them into two big snow peaks, so they can cry their love forever. Their tears formed the Orconcocha and Coroncocha lakes, that together form the Llanganuco lake, a beautiful place to visit. The water of this lake is blue and crystal, and is also frost.

Flora: "Puya Raimondi", quenual, quisuar, orchids, etc.

Fauna: The most important is the trout, we also have th American Sparrow, etc.

Campo Santo Yungay

On may 31th of 1970, the town of Yungay was devastated by the Huascaran Snow peak, a giant ice block fall from the Huascaran and carried aeverything in its path to the city of Yungay, the fall was caused by an earthquake, all the city of Yungay was buried with almost all of its population. There were aproximately between 67 000 to 70 000 missing people in Yungay. Counting all Huaraz city there were approximately between 100 000 to 120 000 missing people. Afortunately there was a circus in a high part of the city and almost all kids went there,the avalanche didn´t reach the circus and because of that they could save their lives. Also, some people that could go up to the cementery saved their lifes.

There was a bus the day of the earthquake, The Ancash Express, that bus is in the "Campo Santo" (Saint Field), it is all destroyed.It is also an story of Maria Luisa Vergara, that was a mother and was in Yungay the day of the earthquake, she had a little daughter, she was about to get to the top of the cementery and save her life, but she got out of energy, her little daughter tried to help her to get up, but she looked at her daughter and said "Daughter leave me, run and save your life", the daughter did what her mother said and got saved, sadly her mother died on that earthquake, she couldn´t scape from the avalanche caused by the earthquake, the avalanche buried all Yungay city, that now is a very visited turistic place.

Callejón de Conchucos (Conchucos Alley)

It is ubicated in the eastern slope of the Cordillera Blanca. In the "Callejón de Conchucos" you can apreciate the traditional arquitecture of Huaraz and find a very famous ancient temple that is Chavin de Huantar.

Flora: The potatoe, peaches, "blanquillos", etc... are harvested

Fauna: There are skunks, weasels, many domestic animals, etc..

Story about Chavin Man

Chavin was one of the early cultures of the peruvian history, its people were great craftsmen and architects. they believed in many gods. They had priests, this priests hired the best crafstmen to carve horrible gods, with the purpouse that when the population see the gods, they get scared. The priests had the knowledge of all the times of rain, sun, etc.. so they used this knowledge to peopleto carry offers to the gods or obey the things that they say with the excuse that if they didn´t do this, the gods will get angry and that will affect all the population

Chavin de Huantar

In Chavin two Ceremonial centers were built, the old temple of Chavin and the New Temple of Chavin.

The oldest is called the Old Temple of Chavin and was erected since the XII century, it was covering a sacred stone called th "Lanzón Monolítico"

The ruin is divided in three levels, the main square, that is the first level there were the comerciants, then is the second level in a U form, there where the middle class people, and the third level, there were the nobility (the upper class).

New Chavín Temple is also called "El Castillo" and had its peak in the fourth and third centuries BC It also has a "U" form, but is larger than the Old Temple, and has a sunkenrectangular plaza 50 meters behind. At this stage the most beloved picture was the "Staff God" from "Estela Raimondi".

The touristic place Chavin (the ruins), is one of the only place that has its most important idol has in the actual place (The Lanzon Monolitico)

Lanzon Monolítico: In the center of the temple, inside a subway cruise is a sculpture of a Big Picture, which was the most important supernatural character of the place. Something equivalent to a divinity. It is an anthropomorphic being, which beens with attributes of human beings, but it has traits of strength and power that humans don´t have: two huge mouth with large teeth, handsand feet with claws, bird eyes, hair and eyebrows turned into snakes alive.

Estela Raimondy: It is still not known where it was originally located, when found, and the people of Chavin had moved to town and there used it for domestic purposes (such as dining table and Fuller). It must be somewhere in the new temple, attached to one of its wall, is a stone veneer that is made for walls.

Cabezas Clavas:They were of different sizes and are present different characteristics.In a few cases they have anthropomorphic traits and in other felines in the style of the figure of the Lanzon "tiger mouth" with fangs, agnatic, that means without jaw and hair turned intosnakes hair. The Chavins believed that this heads where supposed to protect the temple by frighten the spirits, they were like the guardians of the temple.

Obelisco Tello: Was located in the circular square, it is believed that it was like a clock, to know when the solstice and the equinox was, also to know where to harvest or to plant, etc.

Anecdote

Broken Wrist!!!

When Mirella Leyva was entering to a party, she was too excited so she tried to open the door quickly, when she was trying to open the latch of the door, it couldn´t open, desesperated, her friend that was at the back tried to help her, but instead, she casually pushed her and the girl was complaining about the pain in her hand. One teacher took her to the clinic, where they said that she had broke her wrist and the doctors had to put plaster on her wrist.