Festival Opened Today in Cuzco to Go for a Week

Cusco Feria 2012

Cusco Feria 2012

Bouncing music, dance performers, merchants, and the smell of roasting meat fill the senses today and everyday until September 2 in Cuzco’s Beer Garden at the Cusco Feria 2012.  The Municipal government sponsored the event as a “festival for everyone.”  To that end they are not charging admission and the Beer Garden is filled with circulating families and people sitting at tables with mounded plates of food before them.  The festival includes, besides food, folklore, handicrafts, furniture, and auto show and many other commercial displays.  Cuzco Eats presents here photos of food from todays’s event. Read the rest of this entry

Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day

By Walter Coraza Morveli (translated by David Knowlton with photos by Hebert Edgardo Huamani Jara)

In this month of celebrations, Cuzco’s attention turns today to its fathers and international Father’s Day. Considered heads of families, and an example for society, nevertheless the celebrations for father’s day pale in comparison with those for Mother’s Day or the other feasts of Cuzco despite the ideal importance of fathers as indefatigable fighters for their families. Read the rest of this entry