Peru & Bolivia Travel Blog: Expert Guides & Insider Tips 2026

Cusco expects to receive 25 thousand tourists during this year's Holy Week (Semana Santa) festivities. This is the time of year when the Imperial City of the Incas celebrates its patron saint, the Lord of Tremors (Señor de los Temblores), also known as the Black Christ, with feasting, dancing, and processions in his honor.

The San Juan Bautista Festival is one of the year's largest and most important events for the Peruvian jungle provinces. The festival honors the patron saint of the region, John the Baptist. It takes place at the same time as Cusco's Inti Raymi Festival, on June 24th, although celebrations and events begin as early as ten days prior to the main day, and generally continue for a few days after as well.

Peru is thought to be home to 600-2,500 endangered Andean condors. That's a pretty big range, isn't it? It's this uncertainty that's inspired the upcoming condor census- Peru's first. It's the first step in saving the Andean condor, the world's largest bird of flight and an stunning sight for many travelers.

In the Peruvian desert, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, you'll find the most ancient city in the Americas, the remain from a surprisingly advanced civilization.

At the moment exacavaciones are being realized in the later part of the present Palace of Justice old Amaru Cancha.

Cell phones and social media have transformed our lives. These technologies have enabled us to communicate with each other in a way that just wasn't possible before their invention. And one form communication, or self-expression depending on how it's used, it the selfie - the act of taking a picture of yourself with a cell phone or webcam and posting it to social media. It's an act that has taken the world by storm, which is probably why there's now a holiday to cel