Living in Peru : your everyday companion

Every year, Chilean citizens spend over one hundred million dollars in Tacna in medical services, Peruvian clothes and other products, local mayor Luis Torres Robledo said today.

In his statements to Andina news agency, mayor Torres mentioned that visitors mostly spent money on hotels, restaurants and handicrafts among other things.

Torres Robledo detailed that over three thousand Chilean tourists visit Tacna everyday and spend an average of one hundred dollars per day.

Torres said Chileans consider medical services provided in Tacna as cheaper and of better quality than those offered in their country.

In that regard, he added that many Chileans cross the boarder to visit Peruvian dentists, opticians, cardiologists and gynecologists.

Torres Robledo participated this weekend in the First International Gastronomic Fair of Lima “Peru, Mucho Gusto”, which ended on Sunday 28.

During this gastronomic fair, Tacna's mayor said that every year one million Chileans visit Peru’s southernmost coastal city of Tacna to enjoy local traditional dishes and grape-based pisco.

Tacna offers visitors colorful dishes exquisitely combined and abundantly served. The picante a la Tacneña and patazca Tacneña belong to this region.

Corn and cheese, chicharrones with toasted corn, cuy or guinea pig chactado, corn cake with peanuts and raisins, baked pork, grilled lamb, are also local specialties.

To drink, Tacna has macerated Brussels apricot, frutilla or tumbo, as well as pisco and wines produced in the local vineyards.

News source: ANDINA