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

The Festival of the Virgin of Candelaria is celebrated in Copacabana twice a year, on Feb 2^nd & Aug 5^th. It's marked by folkloric parades with live music and vibrantly costumed dancers, religious processions combined with drunken street parties and feasting, shamans selling fortunes along streets lined with new vehicles festooned with streamers and presented for blessing with beer. It's a fun and fascinating time to be a tourist in Copacabana!

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.