The city of Nazca has been building up to its anniversary this week, but we’ve still got a few days left of concerts, fireworks, food fairs, and parade as we work our way towards the main day of festivities this Saturday. Here’s the official schedule:
This year, Oruro will celebrate its carnival on Saturday, February 6th. On this day, more than 400,000 will gather in this former mining town to revel in non-stop folkloric dance parades and parties on a huge scale. See why this is the most popular annual festival in all of Bolivia, and one of South America’s most famous, by joining in on the fun as Lucifer and his devils show off their famous dance moves.
This February, Cusco and the Sacred Valley of the Incas will celebrate Carnaval with water balloons, colored talcum powder, folkloric dance competitions and parades, a float parade, and taking an ax to a few gift-laden trees….
Tens of thousands of domestic and international travelers are expected to visit Puno this year during its annual and legendary Virgin of Candelaria Festival the first two weeks of February. Even more will be participating, however, as more than 40,000 dancers and 5,000 musicians will take part in the competitions and parades. Some have been preparing for the event for half a year, along with the mask and boot makers and embroiderers. Even the Chulluni community on the Floating Islands of Uros is preparing, as locals have been remodeling their totora reed houses in anticipation of a grand influx of visitors.
New Year’s Eve in Cusco is chaotic and exciting, marked by free concerts, uncontrolled fireworks and drinking, fun traditions and local superstitions. Learn why the former imperial city of the Incas is the most popular city in Peru to celebrate the festivities…