Peru Specialist!

I just passed my Peru Specialist exam. I’ve been working on becoming a Peru Specialist for almost a year. A lot of seminars, webinars, and reading, along with talking to those that have been or lived there helped me along the way. Now I’m counting the days until I get to go myself!

Today was one of the most exciting webinar’s I’ve had the pleasure of attending. This one focused on The Amazon Voyage. And this is the trip I want really bad! I’ll be going into detail about this part of Peru in a future blog soon.

There is just so much about Peru that isn’t known by the general tourist population. Of course, most of us know about Machu Picchu and Cuzco, but there is an entire country that has some of the most awesome adventures and sights that you really need a good month or more to really get to see them all. Kind of like telling someone they could see most of the United States in a month – right?
Did you know for instance that Peru is divided into three distinct areas? First is the coastal area that slopes up in the east to the Andean mountains. The second area being the Andean mountains down the center of Peru and third – the Amazon basin on the west side. I will be going into a lot more detail about each of these areas and what there is to see also here in future installments of Peru on this blog site.

Peru, a land wrapped in 10,000 years of history is unparallel in South America for its archaeological wealth and rich pre Columbian history. Since there is no written language about The Inca civilization, knowledge based on archaeological research that the Spanish left written records gives us insight into this civilization.

But wait! There’s more! So much more than archaeology - like – food and wine, museum lovers, golf, surfing, horseback riding, rafting, birders, nature lovers, mountain biking, hiking, handicraft collectors, orchid hunters, and I could go on and on.

Of the 117 life zones (biomes) recognized in the world, 84 are found in Peru. Of the Earth’s 32 types of climate, Peru has 28. And as one of only 18 countries in the world to be categorized as biologically mega-diverse, Peru is naturally equipped to harbor a majority of the Earth’s species. Wait until we get to the eco tours and voluteer tourism opportunities that we will review soon!

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