Marinera Festival
Place: La Libertad
Date:  1 Jan - 1 Feb

Every year the northern city of Trujillo is filled with happiness, rhythm and color along marinera music. And that is because thousands of couples from all over the country come to the Mansiche Coliseum in order to participate in the National Marinera Contest.

Having its Hispanic, Indian and African origins, marinera represents the essence of our cultural roots. This dance represents a flirting, a seduction game between a man that imitates the grace and elegance of our Peruvian Paso horse and a woman who is coquettish, arrogant, and delicate. He wares a linen poncho and straw hat, she wears a silk blouse and a long and very full skirt that follows her movements. Both, dancing along a cajon and a guitar, agitate their white handkerchiefs for almost five minutes of magic, music and joy.

Trujillo is waiting for you. Enjoy the hospitality of its people.

Candelaria Virgen
Place: Puno
Date:  1 - 15 Feb

Every year, in February, the city of Puno, South of Peru and by the Titicaca Lake, turns into a great festivity to honor the Candelaria Virgin. This is a domestic and international well-known popular-religious festivity. Here we honor the Pachamama or mother earth, a relationship with nature that comes from many centuries ago, and that is closely related to pre-Hispanic sowing and harvesting cycles as well as with the area's mining activity. During this festivity, different activities take place such as processions, folkloric shows and parades, while quechua, aymara and, Creole communities show their finest costumes, very bright and colorful, in an unbelievable folkloric display.

During the main parade, about 82 original dance groups with their typical costumes and 66 dance groups with their bright costumes cover the place with music and happiness. More than 25,000 musicians and dancers go along the streets in an endless party.
It is the Virgin's festivity, Puno is waiting for you to celebrate!

Carnival Group Parade
Place: Madre de Dios
Date: 18 - 25 Feb

Along the Peruvian Amazon, citizens celebrate the Carnival Festivity with peculiar music and dancing groups to cheer and delight the assistants. The most exciting moment is the crowning of the Carnival's Queen and King Momo who formerly represented the God of craziness and fun. The river banks are the gathering point to enjoy a good bath and to taste typical regional food. Meanwhile, around the city's main square you can find typical handcrafts.
This Carnival is a whole party!

Internacional Adventure Sports Festival Lunahuana
Place: Lima
Date: 24 - 25 Feb

Adventure tourism is a new world wide trend, it is practiced by millions of people and Peru is not the exception. Our country has natural scenarios that seem to have been specifically designed for practicing these outdoors activities and to be in contact with nature.

Aldea (Asociacion Latinoamericana de Deportes de Aventura) is an institution dedicated to promoting and spreading Adventure Tourism, Ecotourism and Adventure Sports, as well as the promotion of tourist places suitable for developing these activities. It has organized for more than fifteen years the Adventure Sports Festival in Lunahuan Valley (Canhete, Lima). An event that gathers the best sportsmen of the region.

Here, in Lunahuana, the Rafting competition (raft and kayak), Rock climbing (artificial rocks) and Mountain Biking takes place every year. Come and enjoy a show full of adrenalin!

International Harvest Festival 2007
Place: Ica
Date: 2 - 12 Mar

Wine is the essence of the land aged in barrels. In our country, Ica at the South of Lima, is the place for the best grape vines. They belong to the region's most ancient and traditional viticulturist wineries.

As every year, on March - and for a whole week - we celebrate the grape festival, most known as the International Harvest Festival, an event that gathers thousands of domestic and international visitors who enjoy the happiness of its people, the beauty of Miss Harvest's candidates, and the tasty flavors of its food and drinks.

During these days, Ica becomes an endless party. You will find music festivals, cock fighting, and Peruvian Horse riding everywhere. We drink Pisco, our national drink, cachina and, of course, wine. Wineries wait for you with open arms, you just have to follow the "wine road".

If your palate savors the exquisite Peruvian food, your eyes can also enjoy the allegoric cars' parade of the beauty queen. Live an extraordinary party, Cheers!

Holly Week
Place: Ayacucho
Date:  1 Mar - 1 Apr

The city of Ayacucho, South of Peru, is internationally famous for its spectacular Holly Week celebration. It is also known as the city of churches, as well as by its beautiful handcrafts with a very religious influence, made of Huamanga stone. Ayacucho with its 33 churches welcomes thousands of tourists anxious to see the most Andean Via Crusis fervent dramatization.

Everyday, in all the city streets we find faithful people carrying old saints images in processions. At Easter Sunday dawn, the most awaited moment, is when Resurrected Christ comes out of the Cathedral. A very emotional moment filled with faith. The main square is illuminated by thousands of candles and bonfires, creating a warm atmosphere. A mixture of music, traditions and fervor, Ayacucho invites you to personally share the jubilation and faith of their people.

Nazca Tourist Week
Place: Ica
Date: 5 - 10 May

The Nazca Tourism Week ( South of the department of Ica) is a festivity with many traditions in which the inhabitants offer visitors a number of cultural and tourist activities. We can point out all kinds of festivals such as farming, handcrafts, industrial and commercial ones. There are also cock fights. At dusk, picarones and anticuchos, Creole music shows and fire works cover the main square  with good food, lights and happiness. During your visit, we invite you to practice sand boarding, a very fun sport filled with adrenaline. We welcome you to slide in the sands of Cerro Blanco, the highest dune in South America. Nearby you can also visit interesting archeological sites with great history such as the worldwide famous Nazca Lines which cover the city with an aura of mysticism and energy.
We invite you to enjoy a very peculiar week.

Saint John
Place: Loreto
Date: 23 - 25 Jun

Saint John festivity is a proof of the Spanish influence in the Peruvian Amazon. It is the most important festivity in the whole Jungle because it symbolizes faith renewal by the figure of John The Baptist (he baptized Jesus on the Jordan river and he preached his gospel) and the power of water as the main element in the area.

In cities like Iquitos, located in the department of Loreto, and Pucallpa, located in th department of Ucayali, inhabitants go towards the nearest river or lake in order to purify themselves in the water. During this celebration we can appreciate unique musical festivals and typical dances, as well as agro-industrial and handcraft expositions. You can also find typical dishes as famous juanes (rice tamales) that represent the saint's head. Enjoy the Jungle and the warmth of its people!