Tag: things to do in Cusco

Snow Star Festival – Sinakara Valley, Peru

Did you know... that the largest indigenous festival in the Americas, Quyllur Rit’i takes place this Sunday the 27th until Wednesday the 30th of May. The centuries-old festival celebrates the stars, the start of the harvest season, honors Jesus...

Carnaval en Cusco

Carnival is known all over the world as an annual feast filled with color and tradition. It is celebrated by everyone...children, youth and adults join in the play. Indeed in Cusco it is the raining...

Visit of the Coca Museum – Cusco

Our students at Linguaschools Cusco went to visit the Coca Museum. This wonderful little museum, in San Blas, traces the uses of the coca leaf, from sacred ritual to its more insidious incarnations.

The traditional dish of Peru

Just before I started working with Linguaschools, I went to our school in Cusco, one of the highest city’s in the world located in southeastern Peru, to improve my Spanish. I chose to stay...

Discover the best places in Cusco, Peru

Cusco, Peru Cusco is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cusco Province. The site was the historic capital of the Inca Empire from the...