Lima Fashion Week 2015 (LIF Week) starts this evening and runs until the 27th showing the work of top Peruvian fashion designers in addition to a few international invitees on the runway at the Jockey Club del Peru. This is the fifth edition of Lima Fashion Week and this week the designers will be presenting their Fall-Winter 2015 collections. Last year, we introduced up-and-coming Peruvian fashion designer, Chiara Macchiavello of ESCUDO, to our readers. The motto of the brand ESCUDO is Devoted to Design, Committed to Heritage and the brand vision is, “One history, one people, one sentiment, one identity”. Chiara Macchiavello’s clothing line is modern, trendy and comfortable as well as heavily tied to Peruvian history and culture. She works directly with communities that specialize in weaving and embroidery both for inspiration and during the process of creating the pieces. She will be opening up the show this evening as one of the new talents. The Lima Fashion Week program schedule is listed below: Monday, March 23rd 07:00 pm New Talent: CHIARA MACCHIAVELLO (ESCUDO), OMAR VALLADOLID, MOZHDEH MATIN 08:00 pm EVOLÈT 09:00 pm ETXEBERRIA /INTERNATIONAL INVITEE Tuesday, March 24th 06:00 pm New Participants: JOSÉ CLEMENTE, CAROLINA TOLA 07:00 pm JOHANNA ORTIZ / REGIONAL INVITEE / Convenio LIFweek-Fenalco 08:00 pm YIRKO SIVIRICH 09:00 pm CLAUDIA JIMÉNEZ Wednesday, March 25th 06:00 pm HERENCIA CULTURAL TURQUÍA 07:00 pm GERARDO PRIVAT 08:00 pm KUNA 09:00 pm ANA MARÍA GUIULFO Thursday, March 26th 07:00 pm JESSICA BUTRICH 08:00 pm BASEMENT 09:00 pm FÁTIMA ARRIETA Friday, March 27th 07:00 pm ALESSANDRA PETERSEN 08:00 pm ANGIE SCHLEGEL 09:00 pm NOE BERNACELLI If you are interested in visiting Chiara Macchiavello’s workshop in Barranco, Casa Macchiavello, during a tour of Lima, please contact us for more information.
Lima Fashion Week 2015 (LIF Week) starts this evening and runs until the 27th showing the work of top Peruvian fashion designers in addition to a few international invitees on the runway at the Jockey Club del Peru. This is the fifth edition of Lima Fashion Week and this week…
If you’re in Lima and you enjoy dining out in restaurants and tasting unique dishes with ingredients from all over Peru, you’re in luck! Lima Food Week starts today, March 16th, and continues until March 29th (not just one, but two full weeks!). Peruvian gastronomy is becoming more and more well-known around the world, and there is no better time to try out some of the restaurants making headlines in and outside of Peru. The idea behind the event is to give the general public access to high-end restaurants in Lima which offer Peruvian cuisine, nikkei (Peruvian-Japanese fusion) and more. The following restaurants are participating in Lima Food Week: Mayta ámaZ El Atizador Niqei Avalon El Parrillon Osaka La Cucharita Tapas Bar Barrio Tapeo Peruano Ache Restaurante Segundo Muelle Al Asador La Cabrera Valentino Malabar Lanacional Brujas de Cachiche La Molina & Macumba Bar Matsuei Saqra Maras El Huarike Market 770 Restaurante CIPRIANA Lima Food Week is an event that happens twice a year, and this year more than 25 of Lima’s top restaurants are offering discounted prices. There are set lunch and dinner prices of 59 soles and 79 soles, respectively, for multiple-course meals that include an appetizer, an entree and a dessert. Drinks and tips are not included in the price. With the popularity of these restaurants (some of which fill up well in advance) it is recommended to reserve ahead of time so as not to miss out on these delicious dishes. For more information on the best restaurants in Lima and experiences with Aracari including cocktail demonstrations and culinary tours, don’t hesitate to contact us.
If you’re in Lima and you enjoy dining out in restaurants and tasting unique dishes with ingredients from all over Peru, you’re in luck! Lima Food Week starts today, March 16th, and continues until March 29th (not just one, but two full weeks!). Peruvian gastronomy is becoming more and more…
Sustainable and ethical travel has transformed from a niche sector within the field of travel to an industry-wide priority and global movement, one which has been core to the ethos of Aracari since the company was founded in 1996. Peru boasts an array of eco-lodges and hotels with minimal environmental impact including luxury hotels that not only adhere to principles of sustainability but have been recognized for their efforts with international awards. The Posada Amazonas Lodge is one of such properties. It is owned by an indigenous community, the Ese-Eja, in Infierno, and managed in partnership with Rainforest Expeditions. The rainforest isn’t the only area where one can find environmentally-friendly accommodations: the luxury hotel Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo is one of our top choices in the Cusco region and has won various awards for sustainability, such as the award for Conservation at the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards in 2012. In the Colca Canyon, home of the famous condor, the Colca Lodge is a romantic 5-star hotel by the river that offers thermal pools for guests to enjoy and has an ecologically sound floor-heating system, using geothermal energy to heat the rooms. We are always on the lookout for projects directed by local communities that have incomparable insights into the environment and culture. When we become involved with communities, projects and organizations, whether it's through donations, participating in events or sending guests to visit, it’s important to stay in touch and maintain a relationship in order to evaluate their ever-changing needs so that our support can be most effective. One of the organizations we work with is La Tierra de los Yachaqs. Located in the Sacred Valley, their mission is to preserve the history and traditions of local communities while enabling them to support their economy with responsible, authentic and high-quality tourism. This
Sustainable and ethical travel has transformed from a niche sector within the field of travel to an industry-wide priority and global movement, one which has been core to the ethos of Aracari since the company was founded in 1996. Peru boasts an array of eco-lodges and hotels with minimal environmental…
Guest post by explorer Dr. John Hemming The mighty tropical rain forests of the Amazon are the world’s richest terrestrial ecosystem. And the most diverse of those forests are in Peru, on the eastern slopes of the Andes – because this region gets the most rainfall sweeping up the great river, and because it enjoys greater diversity from altitude. The first great botanist to study this magnificent flora was a young Englishman called Richard Spruce. Botanist Richard Spruce A self-taught Botanist Spruce was born in rural Yorkshire, the son of a primary-school teacher, but his family could not afford to keep him in school after age fourteen. So he was self-taught, helped by his dad. He early developed a passion for plants, starting with the mosses and tiny liverworts (hepatics) of the Yorkshire moors. Spruce’s collections, published papers, and correspondence caught the attention of Britain’s leading botanists. In 1849 the director of Kew Gardens suggested that he should go out to the Amazon to collect professionally in that richest environment. He would join two young, and equally brilliant, English naturalists who had gone there in the previous year: Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Bates. Hemming's New Book: Naturalists in Paradise I have just published a book, Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon, about these three amazing men. Each of them became one of the greatest scientists in Amazonia during the nineteenth century. They were true explorers – spending between them thirty years non-stop in those forests and rivers, exploring new territory, identifying thousands of species new to science, writing terrific popular and scientific works, making superb collections (still prized by museums), developing important theories, and having Indiana-Jones style adventures. But they were totally modest, unaware of how tough they were or the magnitude of their achievements.
Guest post by explorer Dr. John Hemming The mighty tropical rain forests of the Amazon are the world’s richest terrestrial ecosystem. And the most diverse of those forests are in Peru, on the eastern slopes of the Andes – because this region gets the most rainfall sweeping up the great…
A new exhibition in Barcelona, inaugurated on March 4th, "Oro, mitos y ritos. Arte mochica del antiguo Perú" (Gold, myths and Rituals. Moche Art of Ancient Peru) will focus on the art of the Moche civilisation which prevailed over the northern coast of Peru between 100 and 800 AD. Moche artists developed sophisticated works and are renowned not only for their mastery, but the tremendous skill and creativity that they applied in documenting their mythology and rituals through Moche art. Moche Art The exhibition will feature 200 pieces exclusively chosen from the Larco Museum in Lima to constitute a "little Museo Larco", as curator Ulla Holmquist put it when we caught up with her in the midst of busy preparations for the exhibition. See Moche art first hand with a tour of the Highlights of Northern Peru. Read more. “A number of ceramic pieces on display depict the ceremony of sacrifice,” Holmquist told us, while there is all the exquisite pomp of gold headdresses and jewellery worn by lords and kings of Peru's ancient northern kingdoms to demonstrate their power. There are fine cups and goblets that were used for rituals, textiles and pieces incorporating feathers, shell and bone amongst other works. Art as a symbolic language for Andean Cosmovision "Ceramics amounted to the words of a language. Art was a symbolic language through which the Andean cosmovision could be interpreted," explained Holmquist. "This art was close to nature, and showed the power that people felt that they had to connect to the upper world through the natural world.” Strong depictions of animals, a hallmark of Moche ceramics, can be found throughout the pieces on display. Animals - and human relation to them - formed the basis of an ancient Peruvian view of the world and symbolised the divisions between
A new exhibition in Barcelona, inaugurated on March 4th, “Oro, mitos y ritos. Arte mochica del antiguo Perú” (Gold, myths and Rituals. Moche Art of Ancient Peru) will focus on the art of the Moche civilisation which prevailed over the northern coast of Peru between 100 and 800 AD. Moche…
One week ago the Oruro Carnival Bolivia, came to an end. The carnival, a UNESCO-listed Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, is celebrated for ten days around Ash Wednesday. People from throughout Bolivia and beyond gather in the streets of Oruro for the annual carnival, one of the most widely celebrated and oldest cultural traditions in Latin America. The roughly 2,000 year old event features tens of thousands of dancers in spectacularly detailed and colorful costumes and masks accompanied by huge bands. It is a dramatic fusion of indigenous music, dances and rituals combined with Euro-Christian traditions. Read more about Bolivia's top festivals and download a free Bolivia festival calendar guide. Oruro Carnival Bolivia Andean & Catholic Tradtions behind Oruro Carnival Carnaval de Oruro represents more than just a lively celebration, it is symbolic of the syncretism between the Catholic ideals imparted by Colonial expansion and the thousands of years old Andean rituals that are so ingrained in the region. After the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, the native celebration was transformed by the incorporation of a Catholic ritual focused on the Virgin of Candelaria, or in Bolivia a focus on the Virgin of Socavón, who is believed to watch over laborers working in the region’s many mines. Dancing troupes The numerous comparsas, or groups comprised of 1,000-strong troupes of dancers, musicians and other characters during the carnival, are focused on different aspects of life in the high Andes, such as agricultural cycles, mining, religion and other themes. La Diablada, or the devil’s dance, is one of the many distinguishing features of the carnival with colorfully costumed dancers, masked diablos, and choreographed routines intricately enacting the victory of the Archangel St. Michael over Lucifer. The dance also serves as an allegory of the Spanish conquest of the
One week ago the Oruro Carnival Bolivia, came to an end. The carnival, a UNESCO-listed Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, is celebrated for ten days around Ash Wednesday. People from throughout Bolivia and beyond gather in the streets of Oruro for the annual carnival, one of…
