Lima, Peru | Saturday 07 November 2009 18:36 | | |

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This week LivinginPeru.com begins a monthly series of articles that feature Peruvians, or Peruvian activities around the world.
When I came to Peru, almost five years ago, I established several goals for myself. These were related to what I hoped would be a successful long term experience of living in Peru.
In times where long working hours put dreams on hold and where Blackberries become more important than family, we have no other choice but to face modern society with a new conviction. Even though this might seem petty compared to the problems that affect global society nowadays, over 11 million devoted readers of Sergio Bambarén’s “El Delfín” would agree that the stimulating philosophy that this Peruvian writer proposes is an attitude worth adopting.
If you've ever listened to Afro-Peruvian music, clear your schedule tonight and go to Parque la Exposición in Central Lima.
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Starting August 16th, Toro Match, an event that has been going on for the past fifteen years, will open its doors for the next five Sundays. From the video and pictures below you will see that it is a family affair where both adults and kids can have fun riding horses, participate in archery, ride in a hot air balloon, watch a Peruvian Paso horse show, observe cock fighting and if you aren’t too tired, you can even dance with the younger generation at night, and of course, you can eat well at very reasonable prices (You can find anything from hamburgers to high quality Argentinean or American-style grilled food.). But the real fun begins at 4pm with Toro Fútbol. It is a game that was invented for various teams which come to Mamacona to play the game. It involves a small bull (around 300 kilos) that must follow you or members of your team through the opposite team’s goal. After this very funny event, they present Toro Match, where different teams try to become bull fighters and choose to face the bull in different ways. Even though the bull is small, it takes guts to be in the ring, which you will also see from these pictures. For more information about this event, check out our Events Calendar
By Bruno Ortiz Bisso
El Comercio
Chicha music, a highway loaded with taxis, ticos and combis, and a loud voice that ocassionally screams “Pisa, pisa!” (Step on it! Step on it!) That atmosphere, so common for any limeño, has been turned into a fun game that, in few days, has become a sensation, mainly amongst Peruvian users on Facebook. It’s called Crazy Combi, a new version of the popular game Crazy Taxi, created by a Peruvian company called Inventarte. It was launched on June 24th, and, in twelve days had surpassed the 350,000 user mark.
Yale University has recently released a three-hundred page document detailing a new theory that claims Machu Picchu was indeed constructed by extra-terrestrials. The report comes soon after a U.S. District court's decision to dismiss Peru's claim that Yale be required to return Inca artifacts to the country from which they were stolen, and was written after repeated viewings of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (which appears in the bibliography as a primary reference).
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