GIANMARCO! SIMBOLO PERUANO!

Do you like to hear rock and pop, Blues, Jazz, latino …?  Are you ready for something new than the usual?

Gian Marco is a successful songwriter from Peru and has won awards such as the Latin Grammy and others; a “Star” in the Latin American music business.
He published this year its eleventh studio album called "Dias Nuevos" (Eng. Last Days) with great successful .  But GianMarco is not only a singer and songwriter of his own music, he also  writes music for other artists as well such as Gloria Estefan and Marc Anthony.
 

GianMarco keeps working with great dedication as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Peru. In 2007, he gave a great benefit concert to support the victims of the devastating earthquake in Peru.
Gianmarco is a happy peruvian; he loves the traditional food and music with its originality and the typical instruments like the charango, a small stringed instrument that resembles a small guitar. 

   Here a litlle bit of his great talent! This song was 
   dedicated to PERU!


  Which is your favorite song and have you  the
  chance to experience Gianmarco live? Write to us!

Tourism Award Colca 2012

Tourism Award Colca 2012

La Autoridad Autónoma del Colca (AUTOCOLCA), ha realizado una ceremonia  el día 4 de enero en el auditorio del Museo Municipal  “PREMIOS TURISMO COLCA 2012".

En este acto se ha hecho un reconocimiento en la categoría de "Agencia de Viajes y Tour Operadores"  a GIARDINO TOURS,  por impulsar  el TURISMO RESPONSABLE EN EL VALLE DEL COLCA.

 Premio plasmado en un plato recordatorio.

The authority of COLCA (AUTOCOLCA), performed a ceremony on January 4 in the City Hall Auditorium ' and has given recognition in the category of "Travel agency and Tour operators" To GIARDINO TOUR OPERATOR , for its work at "Responsible tourism" in the COLCA Valley. 

A beautiful dish was given as the award.

WTM 212. - Giardino Tour Operator.

 World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry - is now over for 2012.

 

We were very happy to have the opportunity to share our products, ideas and enthusiasm to tourism agents and visitors.

 The Responsible  travel industry has many challenges to face. We were motivated to see that sustainability was almost on everyone’s agenda, which proves that Travel industry is taking the issues seriously and making an important step for a positive impact.

 In the Event Peru received the “Best Stand for Doing Business – Peru (LA300) award.

Judges said there was plenty of business being done on this stand, as its design was amenable to meetings and had lots of open space. Also, the way this stand was slatted and colourful stood out for the judges.

“You felt like you’d like to do business here,” said one judge.

Thank you to everyone who attended our stand Giardino and we hope to see you or have news about you very soon!

Peru: The Southern circuit- Video

Peru; Some of the Southern high lights.




Fuente: Promperu

Caral: the oldest civilization in the Americas

Caral: The  oldest civilization in the Americas

"It is proven worldwide that archaeology and tourism is an industry even more profitable than the oil company or automotive  because does not harm the environment and does not affect human life. It is a resource that give social and economic benefits and does not harm anyone", said Shady”

  
“Está probado a nivel mundial que la arqueología y el turismo puede resultar una industria incluso más rentable que la petrolera o la automotriz, que no daña al medio ambiente, que no afecta la vida humana. Es un recurso que es de beneficio social y económico y que no hace daño a nadie”, refiere Shady.

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Caral, ubicada a 206 kilómetros al norte de Lima, tiene una antigüedad de 5.000 años, lo cual la hace contemporánea a civilizaciones como la mesopotámica o la egipcia. Es el asentamiento más importante de los 18 identificados a lo largo del valle bajo y medio de Supe. Fue el núcleo de todo el estado conformado en la zona norcentral del Perú. La sociedad duró aproximadamente 1.000 años y fue un foco de expansión de conocimiento para las posteriores culturas que se desarrollaron en el Perú y el resto de países andinos.

En Caral se distinguen dos zonas. Una correspondía a la elite y en ella se pueden observar construcciones piramidales, plazas circulares hundidas, espacios de congregación pública y residencias de la nobleza y funcionarios de la sociedad. La otra zona es la periférica, donde se agruparon numerosas viviendas. Su economía fue agropesquera e introdujeron la elaboración de mallas hechas a base de algodón para la pesca de anchovetas, su principal alimento debido a su tamaño, facilidad para pescarlo y para su deshidratación. En esta civilización no se encontró cerámica. Según la arqueóloga y antropóloga Ruth Shady, está demostrado que esto no es indicador para que una sociedad exista.

“Los indicadores de civilización son vida organizada, con autoridades, con regulaciones, con excedente de producción, con especialistas dedicados a diversas actividades, producción de conocimientos en ciencia y tecnología”, indica la investigadora.

SOCIEDAD SIN GUERRAS
El idioma quechua fue otra prueba de que Caral es la principal influencia para las posteriores culturas. Su gran expansión hizo que se convirtiera en una lengua de relación y que posteriormente el imperio incaico lo tomara como lengua oficial.

Este aspecto da a entender que las relaciones con otros territorios y culturas, no solo del Perú sino también de Ecuador, Bolivia, entre otros países, se dieron en condiciones de paz. “No hubo relaciones militares, ni de guerra ni bélicas. Lo importante es comprender cómo esta civilización se origina y su prestigio se va extendiendo a otras sociedades que fueron incluyendo diferentes aportes culturales. El modo de vivir tendió a una identificación comunitaria, colectiva, no vemos el desarrollo del individualismo, La sociedad tiene un mensaje de paz, de respeto e inclusión por los demás”, afirma Shady.

La música fue otro aspecto que influyó es la cohesión y colectividad que poseía la sociedad Caral. Se han hallado 37 cornetas hechas con huesos de animales y 32 flautas traversas agrupadas por diseños, elaborados con huesos de aves como el pelícano y el cóndor, además de antaras y otros instrumentos aún no identificados. “Cinco mil años después se sabe que la música es una actividad que ayuda al desarrollo de los 2 hemisferios cerebrales, el de la instrucción (izquierdo) y el de las emociones (derecho)… y eso ayuda a que haya un equilibrio y una armonía en su propia conducta”, explica la arqueóloga.

PRESERVACIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURAL
Hemos visto que Caral es una gran herencia para nuestro país. Al ser la ciudad más antigua de América y al saber que fue de gran influencia para nuestra historia, debe ser tan valorada como Machu Picchu u otras maravillas en el Perú y el mundo.

“Está probado a nivel mundial que la arqueología y el turismo puede resultar una industria incluso más rentable que la petrolera o la automotriz, que no daña al medio ambiente, que no afecta la vida humana. Es un recurso que es de beneficio social y económico y que no hace daño a nadie”, refiere Shady.

Fuente: El comercio, Promperu 2012

EL PRIMER TREN DE SUDAMÉRICA ES UN TREN PERUANO

Considered one of the 25 most beautiful train trips in the world, the Andean Explorer do the route from Cusco to Puno, transporting passengers between beauty, elegance and mysticism that promises a unique travel experience.

(video en Español)

Giardino Tour Operator in WTM 2012

From Nov. 5 - 8,  2012. 

World Travel Market held at London, England is one of the leading trade shows related to the travel industry. The show World Travel Market is attended by leading corporate experts from this field, and boasts of high exhibitor as well as visitor counts. A large number of topical debate sessions, interactive seminars and presentation sessions are organized during the show, and experienced speakers are invited to address the audience at the event. Exhibiting companies have the scope of strengthening their business networks, by getting into profitable partnership deals with industry peers. The sheer range of exhibited items at the event is impressive, and ranges from airport and flight travel services and tourist board services, to event management services and tourism management support.

Giardino Tour Operator will participate in this event. We are so excited to promote our Peru; see you soon!

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World Travel Market en Londres, Inglaterra es una de las principales ferias relacionadas con la industria de viajes. El  World Travel Market cuenta con la presencia de grandes empresas expertas en este campo. Así mismo se jacta de la presencia de expositores de alto reconocimiento, así como gran numero de visitantes. Se darán gran número de temas y sesiones de debate, seminarios interactivos y  presentaciones, también experimentados ponentes están invitados a dirigirse a la audiencia. Las empresas expositoras tendrán también  la oportunidad de fortalecer sus relaciones de negocios y entrar en asociación rentable con colegas del sector. La gran variedad de los elementos expuestos en el evento es impresionante, Aerolíneas, Cruceros, Operadores de Turismo,  gestión de eventos etc.

 

Giardino Tour Operador estará presente en este evento como expositor, y estamos muy alegres de promocionar nuestro  Perú!

Cinco paseos en barco que puedes hacer en el Perú

Se ama  lo que se conoce. Para estas visitas uno no necesita irse al extranejro. Conoce las principales excursiones que navegan por mares, lagos y ríos en variados paisajes de nuestro país

1. ISLAS BALLESTAS

En Paracas

La magia de las Islas Ballestas está en su naturaleza salvaje y en sus antiguas formaciones. Para conocer mejor y observar a los animales en su hábitat, se recomienda tomar una de las lanchas que salen de los puertos del balneario. El paseo dura dos horas y se inicia en la mañana.

2. ISLAS PALOMINO

Desde el Callao

Muy cerca de las playas de La Punta se encuentra un conjunto de islas que congregan a una numerosa población de lobos marinos y aves guaneras. Para llegar a las Islas Palomino hay varias empresas que ofrecen excursiones en embarcaciones de distintos tamaños por día. Este paradisíaco lugar es uno de los principales atractivos turísticos del Callao.

3. BARCO CINCO ESTRELLAS

En Pacaya Samiria

Las embarcaciones del Delfin Amazon Cruises lo llevarán sobre un hotel cinco estrellas a surcar los afluentes del Amazonas hacia la gran Reserva Pacaya Samiria con un servicio de lujo y con botes a su disposición para realizar visitas nocturnas a la selva, avistamiento de aves y caminatas por el bosque.

4. AVISTAMIENTO DE BALLENAS

Costa norte

Pacífico Adventures es el operador turístico que ofrece la posibilidad de realizar avistamientos de ballenas jorobadas en el litoral piurano de agosto a octubre. 

Parten una vez al día desde el distrito de Los Órganos, en un recorrido que incluye también la zona de Cabo Blanco. Una experiencia inolvidable!

 

 

5. EN EL AMAZONAS

Crucero en la selva

En Pacaya Samiria, el lujo navega por el río. La empresa Aqua Expeditions surca el río Amazonas en lujosas embarcaciones en paseos de tres a siete noches. Cada parte del crucero tiene vistas panorámicas al paisaje. Se llega hasta Iquitos y según la época, salen del puerto de Nauta o de Iquitos.

Fuente : El comercio.

Amazon one of the New 7Wonders!

Celebrations to mark the Official Inauguration of the Amazon as one of the New7Wonders of Nature will begin next Sunday, 12 August, in Iquitos the capital of the Loreto Region and the largest city in the Peruvian rainforest. Along with Peru, eight nations shared the candidacy of the Amazon in the New7Wonders of Nature campaign: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.

The unveiling of the specially-cast plaque listing the Amazon in the canon of the Official New7Wonders of Nature will take place on Monday, 13 August, at the Plaza 28 De Julio and the event will be accompanied by traditional ceremonies in the presence of regional leaders along with Bernard Weber, Founder-President of New7Wonders, and Jean Paul de la Fuente, Director of New7Wonders.

The election of the Amazon as one of the New7Wonders of Nature has significant implications for the region. “Sustainable development combined with environmental protection can bring great economic benefits to the Peruvian Amazon region since an unspoiled ecosystem is what 21st-century travellers are increasingly looking for,” said Bernard Weber, reflecting upon his most recent visit to Peru. “New7Wonders looks forward to working with the governments of the countries that share the Amazon to ensure that eco-tourism, along with forestry and biodiversity conservation, is placed at the very heart of regional economic development.”

The city of Iquitos offers one of the most striking benchmarks for measuring the enormous expanse of the Amazon in that it is located more than 3,000 km from the mouth of the river at Belém on the Atlantic Ocean but is still a major Amazon Basin port. Indeed, the Amazon Basin is so vast that Iquitos can be reached only by airplane or boat.

In 1996, an expedition team led by the Polish adventurer Jacek Palkiewicz confirmed that the source of the Amazon River was located at the foot of Mount Quehuisha in the Peruvian Andes. Palkiewicz returned last year to the 5,319 metre-high Quehuisha for the unveiling of a memorial that commemorates the 1996 discovery. “Here starts the Amazon, the greatest river in the world,” states the memorial inscription.

What begins at Mount Quehuisha ends up releasing an astonishing amount of water into the Atlantic Ocean. In the rainy season, the volume reaches 300,000 cubic metres a second. This means that the Amazon is responsible for almost 20 percent of the Earth’s fresh water entering the ocean.

On Tuesday, 14 August, a second New7Wonders of Nature plaque honouring the listing of the Amazon will be unveiled in Lima, the capital of Peru

“How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?” former French President Charles de Gaulle once asked about his native country. Good thing he never got around to governing Peru, a country with 2,500 soup recipes, more than 3,000 different types of potato and 2,000 species of fish.

As one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, supporting jungle, high mountains and coastal desert, Peru calls upon a formidable stash of raw materials to concoct its cuisine. Aside from hauling in one of the world’s biggest asparagus crops (186,000 tonnes) and netting more fish than anywhere outside of China, the country has gifted the global kitchen with the ubiquitous potato and the equally omnipresent tomato, two vegetables that trace their origin and early domestication back to the Peruvian Andes.

Left to marinate for several centuries in a post-colonial melting pot stirred at intervals by African slaves, Chinese labourers, indigenous Quechua, Spanish settlers, Italian immigrants and – more recently – dynamic local chefs, this rich homegrown bounty has been transformed into exciting fusion dishes.

Although Lima is Peru’s largest population centre, it is Arequipa, the nation’s second city that claims – not without merit -- to be guardian of the country’s most varied and inventive cuisine. Those keen on tradition can hunt down the real deal in generations-old picanterías (literally, “spicy restaurants”), while for modern sophistication, look for somewhere with a Novoandina (New Andean cuisine) moniker.

Kick-started in the 1980s by an audacious band of  culinary experimentalists that included Peruvian celebrity chef Gastón Acurio, Novoandina has brought flair and creativity to Peruvian cooking without straying too far from its three main building blocks of potatoes, corn and aji (spicy red chili peppers).

In Arequipa, Novoandianan restaurants still devote a large proportion of their menus to the common garden spud, but prepare it in a multitude of novel ways. Pastel de papas is a potato pie made with milk, eggs, cheese and aniseed. Ocopa Arequipeña consists of boiled potatoes doused in a pungent sauce of oil, garlic, onions, peanuts and cheese, accented with the sweet and minty Peruvian herb huatacay. The national spice-of-choice, aji, is best enjoyed in the signature Arequipa dish, rocoto relleno: spicy red peppers stuffed with ground meat and potatoes, and topped with cream and cheese. But it is also found in many salsas, salads and causas (mashed yellow potato dumplings).

While always honouring tradition, Novoandina chefs have broadened Peruvian menus by placing these reinvigorated standards alongside more offbeat inventions, such as shrimp fishcakes and alpaca stroganoff.  Chef Acurio’s boldly experimental Chicha restaurant (named after a fermented Andean corn drink) has an eclectic menu that illustrates the incredible breadth and diversity of Peruvian cuisine. Highlights include cerviche – Peru’s famous raw fish dish marinated in lemon, salt, chilli and onions – available in dozens of different renderings, and cuy, a shock for anyone who has ever had a pet guinea pig, but a rich treat to Andean natives who have been eating it since pre-Inca times. Acurio puts a clever twist on cuy by serving it “Beijing-style” with purple corn pancakes, red peppers and pickled daikon. The equally ambitious Zigzag restaurant helmed by Swiss-born chef, Michel Hediger juxtaposes traditional alpaca steaks cooked on hot stones with interesting experiments in Peruvian-Italian fusion food, most notably gnocchi made with quinoa, a rice-like grain grown in the Andes that was once the sacred food of the Incas. Acurio tries similar tricks in another of his restaurants, the Trattoria del Monasterio encased in Arequipa’s emblematic Santa Catalina monastery, where local prawns are made into lasagna

For a real spit-and-sawdust Arequipa eating experience, however, give the  experimentalists a swerve and visit a picantería. These traditional, only-in-Arequipa restaurants are usually located in suburban areas and inspire fanatical local followings. Eschewing the gimmickry of the posh city centre eateries and generally only open for lunch, picanterías serve huge crowds of diners at communal tables in an atmosphere of organised chaos. Do not expect standard menus; the dish selection is largely determined by the day of the week. On a very crowded soup list, chupe de camarones is the crème de la crème, an Arequipan specialty that uses the city’s legendary river prawns submerged in a rich broth of milk, tomatoes, spices and hot peppers. It is traditionally served on Fridays; try it at Tradición Arequipeña where pan pipe-wielding music groups compete with the cacophony of hungry diners.

A further indication of Arequipa’s food obsession can be seen in the amount of gastronomic schools that lie dotted around the city. If you are visiting, you can learn the basics on a one-day cooking course. Peruvian food has gone international in recent years with television chefs such as Acurio taking the likes of cerviche and lomo saltado (a Chinese-Peruvian fusion dish made with shredded beef) into the mainstream. In 2004, The Economist stated that “Peru can lay claim to one of the world’s dozen or so great cuisines” while, two years later, Lima was recognized as the gastronomic capital of Latin America by the International Summit of Gastronomy in Madrid. 

Proud Arequipeños might beg to differ, but that is another story.

Arequipa, Peru’s second city, claims to be guardian of the country’s most varied and inventive cuisine.

Fuente: BBC Travel. 2012