Notes:
- Asian fusion
- Capital: Lima
- 24 provinces
- Source of the Amazon river (Lake Junin = Cinchaycocha)
- Inca Empire: Chasquis running from Tambo to Tambo as mailmen
- Machu Picchu
- Sacsayhuaman ("sexywoman")
- Titicaca floating village
- Skylodge adventure suites
- Salt pans of Maras
- Rinconada (highest city in the world - cool night view)
- Rainbow Mountain
- Cerro Blanco (World's tallest sand dune)
- Gocta falls (3rd tallest in the world)
- Shanay-Timpishka river (boiling river)
- Andes Mountains (2nd tallest range after Himalayas)
- Earthquakes/volcanoes
- Mostly rainforest (60%), mountains (30%)
- Llama = national animal
- Giant Andean Condor (largest flying bird in the world)
- Puya Raimondii (tallest flowering plant)
- Potato originated from Peru (4000+ varieties)
- Quinoa & maca (world's largest producer)
- Coati dung coffee (most expensive coffee) $1400/kilo
- Gold (#6 in the world)
- largest company: Aero Condor
- top rating culinary in latin world (in Central & Maido)
- Food: Lomo Saltado, Arroz con pato, Anticuchos, Rocoto Relleno, Aji de Gallina, Llama meat, Lucuma & Camucamu, Papas a la huancaina. Ceviche & Cuy-Roasted guinea pig (national dishes)
- had Japanese as president: Alberto Fujimori
- 10-20% could have East Asian root.
- Language: Spanish. Quechua + Aymara (modern descendants of Incans) = slower heart rate, 1/3 larger lung capacity, more blood volume, due to thin air and cold.
- Atlas Obscura: Incans never had wheel, no iron, mainly built on fiber.
- Incans: Quipus = knotted fiber for communication
- Incans: Married women wear woven hats, single women wear knitted hats.
- Catholicism but fusion with Pachamama (mother earth), 2nd largest of shamans in the world after India.
- Everyone knows the song: Contigo Peru
- Music: Charango (like ukulele), Pan flute, Creole music, El Condor Pasta (famous song) - Simon & Garfunkel played it too (I noticed that the melody is similar also to their The Sound of Silence)
- Leave a bit of beer to pour on soil to give back to mother Earth.
- Paracas Skulls (Aliens conspiracy theories) - pushed and elongated over time = symbolizes nobility
- Hates Senorita Laura, she's Mexico's problem now.
- Guano (exported guano) Era under Ramon Castilla (also abolishes slavery)
- Military dictatorship vs. democracy again and again
- Falklands/Malvinas war = deported to Argentina
- Cenepa War (War with Ecuador)
- Soccer (Teofilo Cubillas)
- War of the Pacific (with Frenemy Chile). All best restaurants in Chile are Peruvian; best stores in Peru are Chilean. Dispute on national drink = Pisco Sour
- With Brazil = business relationship
- Chinese & Japan. Lots of cheap Chinese labors when slavery was abolished. Largest Chinese community in Latin America. Longer history with Japan.
- Best friends: Argentina & Bolivia