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Dear friend of Peru, Most people are aware of the fact that Peru is a country enormously
rich in archaeological sites and unique natural areas. Perhaps less
people know that 10 of these sites and areas are part of the UNESCO
World Heritage List. Finally, Peru has now achieved its well deserved
seat in the UNESCO Committee. Read more in this newsletter's top topic. It might not seem so long, but peruline is celebrating its 4th birthday already! For us an occasion to once again thank our partners as well as you, dear readers of this monthly newsletter, who accompanied us during all these years. With your feedback you do not only contribute to the steady improvement of the newsletter but also reinforce us in our daily work. Stay with us and come to visit Peru soon! Enjoy reading!
The committee, consisting of 21 members, is elected
in the annual general meeting of the UNESCO by the membering countries.
Its objective is among others to decide about the applications of
being set on the List of World Cultural or World Natural Heritage.
The International Center of Studies for Cultural Heritage Preservation
and Restauration (Roman office), the International Council for Preservation
of Historical Monuments and Buildings (ICO-MOS) as well as the International
Union for Preservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) each
may attend the meeting as advising support. World Cultural Heritage are monuments, ensembles and
sites that are of extraordinary and universal value.
peruline celebrates anniversary!
On the occasion of our fourth anniversary we would like to thank everyone who helped to make this project possible. Thanks to our Peruvian partners, hotels and tour operators, lodges and language school whose continuous efforts contributed in making Peru a better known and desired touristic destination. You will find a closer description of our company at the end of this
newsletter as well as on our teampage. Three year anniversary of the Tumbas Reales de Sipán Museum
Onn 8 November 2005 the Museum Tumbas Reales de Sipán celebrates its third year of existence and already counts with impressing numbers of visitors. You definitely shouldn´t miss this highlight on your trip to Peru! For further information please visit our website at museum Las Tumbas Reales de Sipán. Our recommended accommodation in Chiclayo for visiting the Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán is the Gran Hotel Chiclayo or the Garza Hotel. Oktoberfest in Lima
Your will find more information on the Oktoberfest here. Amazon river: Lowest stage since 40 years
Natural forces on Machu Picchu
Extending the Brüning Museums in Lambayeque
For more information on the Brüning Museum or the region around please click here. Expansion of the flight route system within and to Peru238,200 European tourists visited Peru this year which implied an increase
of about 18 % compared to the same period of the previous year. Reasons
are the amplification of marketing instruments as well as a better infrastructure
as for instance the more frequent flight connections by Air Madrid, Iberia
and also Air Plus Comet who will offer three flights per week between
Madrid and Lima starting in November. Also the flight operator LAN is
said to be planning direct connections to Madrid. Consequently the National
Tourism Chamber CANATUR visualizes a possibility of other European destinations
to follow.
Special service at the Hatuchay Tower Machu Picchu Hotel
The hotel situated close to Machu Picchu offers its guests of the superior
rooms a special service. They will be welcomed with a Pisco Sour at the
arrival. For those preferring non-alcoholic drinks can serve themselves
from the bottle of mineral water that is provided in every room. During
the stay a bathrobe will be disposed for the guest and a welcome chocolate
will make his stay even sweeter.
Casa Andina: excursion to Punta San Fernando and opening of two new Private Collection Hotels
DoubleTree El Pardo Hotel- Sweet awakening!
Since the end of August, Junius, the hotel´s famous restaurant
offers a delicious and outstanding breakfast buffet. Besides the well
sorted regular card the buffet supplies with a variety of fruit juices,
diverse hot drinks, many different kinds of bread, pastry and cookies,
ballony and cheese, ham and eggs and more. Enjoy!
Gran Hotel Chiclayo welcomes international soccer players
Tourism and nature - Peru promotes birdwatching
Sierra of Lima: A long upward run for seeing nature, a beautiful view and the sun
In the late afternoon our stomach tells us that is is now time to return
and our echo tells us goodbye as we shout our goodbye into the mountains.
Even though I would have liked to visit the archaeological site Huacapune
on the way down not all the fellowship agreed and as we reached the end
of the decline everyone was happy especially when meeting some campers
whose rise yet lay upon them.
... that in Peru two million children under the age of 17 (60 % of them under 12 years old) work which makes about a third of the total working population in Peru? ... that the world´s biggest bromeliacae, Puya Raimondi, grows in the Andes and only blossoms once in 100 years and after that dies off? .. that the highly developed culture in Caral built their pyramids at the same time as the Egyptians?
peruline is a tourist information service about Peru. Many tourist enterprises support and finance our promotion and information job. Our main objective is to benefit the sponsor companies as well as the country itself. Our services at a glance: Our monthly newsletter informs you about the latest Peru news. The topics
of this newsletter were chosen by Sabrina Mc Fadden. With best wishes from Lima, Yours, Sünje Fischer |
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In
this year*s July the reunion of the altogether 191 members of the
UNESCO took place in South Africa. The director of Peru*s National
Culture Institute, Luis Lumbreras, could be very delighted as Peru
was elected to inherit one of the seats in the UNESCO committee. 
Chan
Chan, capital of the Chimu realm situated close to contemporary Trujillo
and being the world´s biggest adobe town, was accepted World
Cultural Heritage in 1986 and at the same time was set on the "red
list" which contains the especially endangered sites. As ground
water started to rise, the site impended to break apart. Hard work
avoided damages and even made appreciable progress in preservation.
Nevertheless word gets around that Peru hopes not to lose the site*s
status of being very endangeres as this results in receiving less
financial support for Chan Chan.
On
30 October 2001 peruline was officially founded. Peru has not been completely
unknown as a touristic destination but the European demand was not as
grand as today as the market is growing continuously. Gunther Neubert,
owner and founder of the company had observed the lack of information
flow and thus created the first private information service which built
a bridge between tourism companies in Peru and services interested in
South America, journalists, and visitors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In
1987 in Sipán, close to the town of Chiclayo, the tomb of a Moche
emperor was discovered. Being a tomb that had not been robbed by tomb
raiders this discovery was a world sensation due to its enormous richness.
The grave is also a marvelous record of history that allows an incredible
insight view on this Pre-inca culture. The Lord of Sipan got his name
to honor the location where he was found. 
The world famous Oktoberfest is celebrated in over 100 cities all over
the world and so it is in Lima. In 2002 the idea came up to open the festival
not only to members of the German club but also to the public. 
Due
to a lack of rainfalls in the Andes the Amazon river - usually the river
carrying the most water on Earth - level declined to 106,09 m above sea
level which means an even lower level than in 1995 when the last extreme
decline made it drop to 106,38 m.a.s.l. Its affluxes decreased between
52 cm and almost 3 m which resulted in a decline of the Amazon of over
three meters. As the river and its affluxes still are the main ways of
supply in many regions of the Amazon basin, problems arouse for instance
for some lodges that are only accessible via water route. Furthermore
140 tons of fish died due to the draught and are now polluting the remaining
river. Reasons are not only to be searched in the lack of rainfalls but
also in agriculture. For instance the rice grown in the North extracts
a huge amount of water from the region. In order to prevent further extreme
dryness the cultivation has to be better coordinated. 
In
the night to 13 October 2005 a stone avalanche caused by the melting water
of the nearby mountain Veronica burried part of the tracks between Cusco
and Aguas Calientes and destroyed a bridge. Thus about 3,000 visitors
were locked in Aguas Calientes but already the next day evacuation started.
Visitors were taken on busses from km 82 to Cusco. The following days
the traffic was regulated with a combination of train and bus.
The
Brüning Museum, specialized in Cultures of Moche, Lambayeque/Sican
and Chimú and possessing a diverse collection of gold and silver
exposures, has now closed its doors in order to start its rebuilding.
San
Fernando is one of the least vistited nature reserves on Peru*s coast
and therefore is still an insider tip for nature tourists who will have
perfect circumstances to watch seals, Humboldt-pinguines and - with a
little bit of luck - a herd of Guanacos (lama species). The main attraction
though are the condors who migrate from the Andes to the coast in order
to look for food and later sunbathe on the cliffs and the small island
formations. Our partner Casa Andina Nazca provides the unique opportunity
to realise a daytrip to Punta San Fernando. 
Always
on the run to make the guest's life easier and more comfortabel, the DoubleTree
El Pardo Hotel decided to launch something innovative into its rooms.
Shortly every room will be equipped with an alarm clock that not only
is very easy to handle but also has some additional features. A plug-in
for MP 3 devices offers every guest the opportunity to listen to an wake
up with his own preferred music. 
The
Under 17 World Championship is over and therefore the Gran Hotel Chiclayo
gives us a small review about the month of September and the habits of
the different nationalities that the Gran Hotel Chiclayo hosted. 
The
North of Peru including Tumbes, the regions Piura, Chiclayo, La Libertad,
Cajamarca, Amazonas, San Marin and Loreto with its 1,200 bird species
is known as the most diverse area concerning birds in the world. A recent
study presented by Juan Carlos Diaz and Rob Wiliams, an ecologist specialised
on dry forests, gives proof of that. According to them this is 15 % of
the total bird population in the world. 
According to media reports, BirdLife International, an organisation for
the protection of bird species, will open up an office in Peru in order
to better coordinate the preservation of species and also to create a
forum for the distribution of financial support. 
At
half past seven our international travelling group of friends started
its journey towards Chorin in order to get further to San Jerónimo
de Surco. Leaving the dirty city and its poor slums at the edge of it
behind we pass a desert like landscape. Three different combis take us
all the way to Chorin. As there are too many people and too long waiting
times we share a taxi for the last part of the way. The taxi driver takes
his seven passengers - there is also plenty of space in the trunk - up
the windy roads to the starting point of our hike. It is kind of weird
that they cover us for hiking up their mountain but at least they provide
a small brochure explaining the "sites" along the way.
Our
way leads us on smooth serpentine paths along rough hills with rotten
vegetation. Now where is the promised green? Where the nature? The vertile
greenlands and fresh rivers? It will all be green once the rainy season
starts, explains our Peruvian friend. But the disappointment of the beginning
soon vanishes when the continuation of our ascent unravels a fascinating
view with beautiful landscape and the vegetation starts to change. Not
to forget the fresh air that you learn to appreciate with all the pollution
in the city. 
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and donkeys behind. A small waterfall along the path gives us a little
foretaste of what is yet to come. After a three hour hike during which
one piece of clothing after the other moves into our backpacks, our target
is close to grip, we really deserve the fresh cool water of Palacala Waterfalls
and the lazing in the sun. It is the quietness and desertion that makes
the place so beautiful and magical.