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  • Virgen de Chapi Pilgrimage

    Location: Arequipa (desert shrine, 45km from the city) Highlights: Over 100,000 devotees walk barefoot through the desert to honor the Virgin. Fireworks, traditional picantería food, and yaraví music (Andean lament songs).

  • Fiesta de las Cruces (Festival of the Crosses)

    Locations: Nationwide (most famous in Cusco, Lima, and Huánuco) Highlights: Celebrates the Christian cross blended with Inca earth worship (Pachamama). Cusco: Neighborhoods compete with ornate crosses adorned with flowers and mirrors. Huánuco: Danza de los Negritos (dance honoring Afro-Peruvian heritage).

  • Q’eswachaka Bridge Festival

    Location: Canas Province, Cusco Highlights: Annual rebuilding of the last Inca grass bridge using traditional techniques Community participation with offerings to Apus (mountain spirits) UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage event

  • Qoyllur Riti Pilgrimage 2025

    Qoyllur Rit’i Pilgrimage (Precursor to Corpus Christi)

    Location: Sinakara Valley (Cusco), near Ocongate Highlights: One of Peru’s most sacred Andean festivals, blending Inca sun worship (Inti) with Catholicism. Thousands hike to 4,800m to honor the Señor de Qoyllur Rit’i (Christ appearing as a mountain spirit). Dancers in colorful masks (ukukus) perform rituals to bless crops.

  • Corpus Christi

    Location: Cusco Highlights: 15 saints and virgins paraded from churches to Cusco Cathedral Traditional dishes like chiriuchu (cold spicy platter) Q'apaq Negro dance performances

  • Fiesta de San Juan (St. John’s Festival)

    Location: Amazon regions (especially Iquitos, Pucallpa, Tarapoto) Highlights: Celebrates the Amazonian winter solstice with water purification rituals Traditional dances like the pandilla and humisha (tree cutting ceremony) Feast of juanes (seasoned rice wrapped in bijao leaves)

  • Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun)

    Location: Cusco (Sacsayhuamán fortress) Highlights: The most important Inca festival, honoring the sun god Inti Spectacular reenactment of ancient Inca rituals with 500+ participants in traditional costumes Includes offerings to Pachamama (Mother Earth) and ceremonial coca leaf readings

  • All Saints’ Day (Día de Todos los Santos)

    This is a solemn and family-oriented holiday. Families gather to remember and honor their deceased loved ones. It is customary to attend mass and visit cemeteries to clean and decorate the graves with flowers, particularly orange marigolds (cempasúchil). A unique tradition is the preparation and consumption of "Lechón" (suckling pig) and "T'anta Wawa" – bread shaped like babies or...

  • Santurantikuy Fair

    Peru's largest folk art and traditional customs fair is held in Cusco's Plaza de Armas. Artisans from the region exhibit and sell nativity scene figures, especially the famous “Niños Manuelitos,” as well as other handicrafts, ceramics, and paintings. It is the prelude to Christmas in Cusco.

  • Lord of Qoyllur Rit’i Pilgrimage

    Sinakara Valley (Ocongate District) / Ausangate Region Cusco, Peru

    An extraordinary mass pilgrimage deep in the Andes combining Incan glacier worship with Catholic elements (Vera Delgado & Vincent, 2013). Tens of thousands of indigenous dancers (Ukukus) climb to the sacred sanctuary below Mount Ausangate in a deeply spiritual display of faith.

  • Corpus Christi Cusco

    One of Cusco’s most spectacular visual events. Fifteen saints and virgins from different neighborhood parishes are carried in massive, beautifully adorned structural litters to the Cusco Cathedral. The main square fills with music, traditional dances, and food stalls serving Chiriuchu (Cusco's traditional festival dish).