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	TRIPS TO PERU: FIST AND LAKE TITICACA • Terrestrial access: File-Arequipa-Juliaca-Fist, 1302 km (24 hours in car approximately). • Aerial access: Regular flights to Juliaca from the cities of Lima (1 hour, 45 minutes approximately) and Arequipa (45 minutes approximately). • Relief: The department of Fist has a generally flat relief because good part of its territory is in the plateau of the Collao, to borders of the Titicaca lake. Towards the north the Marine or Volcanic mountain range rises to the mountain range of Carabaya and towards the south. • Climate: The city of Fist is of cold and semi-dry climate. The season of rains begins in October and concludes in April. The temperature average annual principle is 14,4°C (57,9ºF) and the minim 2,6°C (36,7ºF). The ideal months are of April to December. Generally, strong sun by the day and cold nights. • Height: Fist to 3827mnsm and the Titicaca Lake to 3810msnm. • Activities: archeology, eco-tourism, observation of flora and fauna, coexistence in houses of families, strolls in rafts and purchase of crafts. • Recommendations: it is necessary hat and protective lot. It is necessary to become aclimated itself not to suffer altitude sickness. • Celebrations: - Virgin Supervisory Celebration of the Candlemas/February 2. Fist. The Celebration of the Virgin of the Candlemas, that lasted 40 days and 40 nights after Christmas, comes from one old tradition of the catholic church for “purifying” to the Virgin Maria. Besides the celebration a solemn procession with blessed candles was realized, that give the name him to the festival. At the moment, the celebration of the Virgin of the Candlemas is the more important religious celebration of Fist and includes misas, banquets, dances, contests and a colorful procession that reunites to hundreds of faithfuls. - Celebration of Alacitas and Cruces/May 3 to the 4. Provinces of San Roman and Puno; districts of Juliaca, Puno and Cabanillas. It is a special occasion where the settlers offer crafts in miniature in diverse fairs located in the main streets of each city, symbolizing those things that one would wish to have, like house, car, money, etc. In this celebration craftsmen of Bolivia also participate. - Anniversary of the Foundation of the City of Fist/November 1 to the 7 Province of Fist, district of Fist. It is celebrated with civic manifestations and exhibitions of dances by the streets of the city in charge of the schoolboy. The 5 of November the creation of the Empire imagines Inca, legend according to which the mythical pair of Able Manco and Ocllo Breast left the sacred lake in search of earth where to found the Empire • Gastronomy: Cancacho: pig or lamb to the furnace macerated in red pepper and oil; It fishes of quinua: puree of quinua ripened with milk and cheese; Chairo: soup of meat of head of cattle and lamb, Popes, beans, zapallo, cabbage, chuño, wheat and chalona or dry meat of sheep. • Crafts: weaves in wool of alpaca and ewe, musical instruments, “the Toritos de Pucará”, “the Ekeko”, that cause the abundance. Few cities have the privilege to be located to borders of a wonder of the nature like the Titicaca, the navigable lake more stop of the world. In the Titicaca numerous islands exist, each with their own characteristics and peculiarities. In the island of the Uros, whose inhabitants descend from one of the oldest towns of America, are the typical houses done with totora. In Taquile, on the other hand, the old techniques of the weave practice still that the tourist can learn if she decides to accept the habitual hospitality of his inhabitants. In other cities of the department, like Pucará, it is the pottery the one that has reached international reputation, and in Sillustani still they are possible to be appreciated chullpas (constructions of stone) of the Tiahuanaco. By the others, their traditional celebrations and dances, like those of the Virgin of the Candlemas or the famous dance of the “Diablada”, celebrated in the month of February, are the ideal frame for a really unforgettable trip. It counts the legend that from waters of the lake Able Manco and Ocllo Breast emerged, mythical founders of the empire of the Incas. The certain thing is that in the region one of the cultures was developed more important pre-Incas, the Tiahuanaco, principle expression of the old Aymara town. The tiahuanacos emphasized in the architecture, the litoescultura, the ceramics and textilería, shaping in their pieces a religious iconography that not yet has been managed to include/understand to cabalidad. When decaying the Tiahuanaco power, arose in their old diverse dominions the señoríos premises, between which they emphasized collas and aymaras. In century XV the Incas arrived at the plateau of the Collao and violently conquered to the groups collas that inhabited so much the high part as low territories of the region. Aymaraes or aymaras never folded absolutely and their descendants, lupakas, lupajaques or children of the sun, since they were made call, have been the dominant and more important towns of the plateau. When the settled down Spanish conquerors in Cuzco had the news of the wealth of the region of the Collao, they began to arrive at the plateau. In the middle of century XVII terrible disputes by the control of the mines of Laykacota between the most powerful families of the time were originated, Vizcaya Andalusians and, so that the own virrey Count of Lemos was forced to travel to the zone to appease the disturbances, founding the present city of Fist on 1668, with the name of San Carlos de Puno. During century XVIII, the indigenous population of the region supported the rebellion of Túpac Amaru II and the one of Túpac Catari, demanding to end the abuses committed by the authorities.

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TRIPS TO PERU: FIST AND LAKE TITICACA

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FIST AND LAKE TITICACA