Over 3,000 Peruvians received scholarships to study in the United States last year, and more university students are expected to take advantage of this opportunity within the framework of the International Education Week. 

High in the Peruvian Andes 8,000 alpacas died during a particularly harsh period of cold in the summer of 2004. For the herders who raise and shear these long-haired beasts for a living, it was a huge loss amounting to one fifth of all the alpacas living in that region of the highlands. Since then international aid organizations have worked with local herders to prevent future losses in the face of extreme cold snaps that seem to be occurring more frequently there with climate change. 

Peru's government on Thursday branded a 10-day long strike at the country's biggest copper and zinc mine illegal and the operating company Antamina urged laborers to return to work.

South Korea is a major gateway to Asia for Peruvian products, said the president of the Association of Exporters (ADEX), Gaston Pacheco, at the opening of the I Forum of Business Opportunities between Korea and Peru. 

Wildlife photographer Jeff Cremer has discovered what appears to be a new type of bioluminescent larvae. He told members of the press recently that he was walking near a camp in the Peruvian rainforest at night a few years ago, when he came upon a side of exposed earth upon which there were many little green glowing dots. Taking a closer look, he found that each dot was in fact the glowing head of a worm of some sort.

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Peru believes railway projects that seek to link Brazil to the north and Bolivia to the south are feasible, Peruvian President Ollanta Humala said.

Peru, Brazil and China earlier this month signed a memorandum at the Apec forum in China to run studies for an inter-oceanic railway which would link Brazil's Atlantic coast with an unspecified northern Pacific port in Peru and, in turn, Chinese markets, Humala said.

At the same time, Peru's deputy transport minister traveled to Bolivia for meetings with government officials to discuss an "ambitious" railway project that faces "engineering challenges" over the route from the Bolivian capital down to Peru's southern port of Ilo, Humala said. 

It's been two years since Martin Morales opened Ceviche - London's first modern Peruvian restaurant. Since then a clutch of others have sprung up, including Soho's Lima and Chotto Matte. Pachamama is London's latest offering.

Pachamama has a mysterious air when you arrive. The decor is a cross between a Notting Hill yummy mummy country kitchen and a self-consciously edgy Dalston bar. Think mismatched mirrors, shabby chic sideboards, whitewashed furnishings and lemon plants set within exposed brick walls and a naked ceiling. There were some nice black and white prints of photos on the walls that had clearly been taken in Peru, but it was all a bit of a mishmash. A good-looking mishmash nonetheless.

As an American, Thanksgiving is very important to me as it is for many people. Living in Peru and preparing thanksgiving dinner might be difficult. So I'm going to share with you some recipes and places to help you enjoy a delicious thanksgiving meal.

National Geographic Traveler presents the New Year's must-see places. These 20 go-now destinations will send you packing. Choquequirao is one of them.

The site that has emerged looks like a film director's fantasy of a lost city. On the day I arrive a time lapse of cloud is drifting across the ridge, above a geometry of Inca stairways and terraces cut into a steep, jungly spur above the Apurímac river, 100 miles west of Cusco in southern Peru. 

Expect a different sound when Susana Baca sings at the Howard Theatre on Tuesday. "I won't be performing with the usual band of Peruvian musicians," so the repertoire "is going to have very different nuances," the champion of Afro-Peruvian music said by phone from Boston, shortly after a concert there.

Backing her up at the D.C. gig, Baca said, will be a group of musicians with connections to Boston's Berklee College of Music - artists such as the Grammy-honored bassist Oscar Stagnaro, who is a professor at that institution. The band will include a Venezuelan-born violinist and a Brazilian-born guitarist, Baca said. 

 Man 'Eaten Alive' by anaconda in Peru's Amazon [VIDEO]

 

If you aren't yet familiar with Paul Rosolie, take a moment to learn about the author and thrill-seeking naturalist- while he's still alive.

Eatin Alive, a two-hour Discovery Channel special, Rosolie treks through the Peruvian Amazon on a search for the 20-foot-plus anaconda. With a bodysuit on (specially manufactured so as to keep himself and the snake safe), Rosolie will allow himself to be eaten alive by the massive reptilian.