Colca Canyon, a river canyon in southern Peru, one of the world's deepest, a well-known trekking destination and the habitat of the Condor.
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Amantaní, one of the largest islands in Lake Titicaca, where every corner is a source of energy and every moment a reason for celebration.
Taquile, an island on the Lake Titicaca. About 2,200 people live on the island the main village is at 3,950 metres above sea level.
The Floating Islands of the Uros, a set of approx. 80 islands built of totora, an aquatic plant that grows on the surface of Lake Titicaca.
The museum covers the Chachapoya and Inca cultures and exhibits are over 200 mummies, and accompanying funerary offerings, recovered in 1997.
The museum house where the national hero was born, which was declared a national historical monument, exhibits items and furniture that Cap used daily. Abelardo Quinones.
The museum was inaugurated on September 19, 2009. It exhibits a recreation of the arrival, disembarkation, death and funeral of Naylamp, a mythical founding character of the Lambayeque culture. Likewise, it shows ceramic and metal objects discovered from archaeological investigations carried out in the archaeological zone.
The Royal Tombs of Sipán Museum is a museum in Lambayeque, Peru. It contains most of the important artifacts found at Huaca Rajada by archeologist Walter Alva in 1987, including the Lord of Sipán and his entourage. The museum was inaugurated in 2002. The museum was designed to resemble the ancient Moche tombs.
Huaca Rajada, also known as Sipán, is a Moche archaeological site in northern Peru in the Lambayeque Valley, that is famous for the tomb of Lord of Sipán, excavated by Walter Alva and his wife Susana Meneses beginning in 1987. The city of Sipán is dated from 50–700 AD, the same time as the Moche Period.
Chavín de Huántar is an archaeological site in Peru, containing ruins and artifacts constructed as early as 1200 BCE, and occupied until around 400–500 BCE by the Chavín, a major pre-Inca culture.