Peruvian People

The Peruvian people is the real reason to visit Peru; Think about it? if they had not built Machu Picchu, would you visit Peru?; Think about it again? if they did not cook such tasty food, or if they did not have so many pre incas cultures in the coast, highlands and jungle, would you be really interest to visit Peru?; The answer is no!; If is not because the Peruvians are such great people none of us will be interested in Peru.

We visit Peru to admire the greatness and marvelous cultures that the Peruvian people had build over hundreds of generations, since the beginning of time; There is two theories of how the Peruvians arrive to south America, one of them say that they came by ships from the Polynesia and the other theory explain that the Peruvians came from Russia, crossing the Bering strait and walking down from north America to south America, looking for more warm places to live.

The Peruvian people had contact with Europe and middle east, long before we know, because the cotton that the incas use had it roots of origin in Egypt and some Egyptian mummies has been found with remains of coca plant; The coca plant is original from Peru, so investigators believe that they must have some kind of contact.

7000 years ago, the Peruvian people grow in small communities and practice the team work to solve their problems, the community work was the primary reason of their quick development; The old Peruvians where the ones that domesticate the potato plant, the corn, the peanut, the tomatoes, the squash and other plants that you can only find in Peru.

The oldest city of south America is in Peru, builded more than 5000 years ago, centuries after this culture was sub divide in 14 small civilizations, with more than 23 small kingdoms, distribute all over Peru, most of this small kingdoms disappear by them selfs or were conquer by bigger civilizations.

The inca culture appear over 1000 years ago and in less that two hundred years, they conquer practically half of south America, just on time to self collapse on the hands of the Spaniards 500 years ago; This was the moment when the strength and resistance of the Peruvian people start to be tested.

500 years ago, Peru have a population of 9 million people, then the spaniards arrive and after 100 years of spaniard rule, the Peruvian population drop down to 600 thousand; It could be interpreted as almost extinction, but the Peruvians survive and mix the inca religion with the catholic religion of the spaniards.

Now days you can see the amazing mix that had born from the unwanted marriage of the inca people and the spaniards; This mix is the most priceless treasure that Peru ever have; When you visit Peru and see the Peruvian people face to face, you will feel a real open heart attitude, at any time you will be asking for something, the Peruvians will be friendly, polite and open heard by nature.

If you visit Peru, you will see black Peruvians, who are the descendants of the slaves brought from Africa by the spaniards, you will see Chinese Peruvians, who are the descendants of the cheap working hands, brought to Peru by the spaniards over two centuries ago.

You will find in Peru, typical high land Peruvians; This men and woman are the direct descendants of the incas, so look carefully into their eyes, because maybe you are looking at the face of a descendant of a fearless inca warrior; You never know, maybe you could be looking at the face of a direct descendant of an inca king, since there are no records of royal blood lineage until today.

Maybe you could visit Peru to see the Peruvian people from the jungle, with that special smile and super friendly attitude that is so typical of them; Today we effort our selfs to live in harmony with the nature, recycling, healthy food, less contamination in our environment, etc; So just stop for a minute and look at the people of the jungle, this men and women have been in harmony with their environment for centuries; Definitely they are a example that many of us should follow.

Now forget the simple reasons to visit Peru, forget about the nature, forget about the culture and forget about the incas architecture as well; At the end, the only and most important reason to visit Peru is to meet the Peruvian people, because without their strength, without their happiness or without their culture, Peru will not be as fascinating destination as it is today.

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