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Tucked Away in the Vines: Las Viñas Queirolo Hotel in Ica

Following our visit to Tacama, we were wondering what to expect from Santiago Queirolo, another widely popular Peruvian wine and pisco producer.  This would be the final stop of our weekend tour of some of Ica’s distilleries and vineyards and where we would be spending the night. Las Viñas Queirolo, a boutique hotel and small onsite […]

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Easter in Peru

Easter in Peru: Ayacucho’s Semana Santa

Easter Week, or Semana Santa as it is known in Latin America, is one of the most anticipated and celebrated times of the entire year.  Throughout Peru, a variety of captivating events, processions, and celebrations mark the start of Holy Week. Visitors spending Easter in Peru can expect opportunities to see colorful local festivities played […]

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The Oldest Vineyard in Peru: Tacama, Ica

Following our visit to the state-of-the-art Portón distillery, with an eye-opening lesson into the production of their delicious Pisco and a small, early-morning “liquid breakfast” of various mosto verdes, we continued to our next stop, Peru’s largest and most popular vineyard, Tacama, Ica. Having previously sampled some of their wines including a consumer favorite Blanco […]

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Nazca Lines tour from Lima

Etched into the desert plains over 2000 years ago, The Nazca Lines geoglyphs are one of Peru’s most capitvating sites to visit. Flying over the Nazca Lines offers the best perspective to appreciate the large scale of these mysterious shapes, an impressive feat achieved by the ancient Nazca culture. These ancient geoglyphs – consisting of several hundred individual […]

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