I said to Mary that I really didn't know anything about South America. The ones I know the most about there are Brazil and Argentina, home to some of the world's top football players, and then there's the fact that I've watched a few Brazilian TV series. I really don't know anything about your country.

Andrei Says:

- "Peru is the seat of the ancient Inca country, the most mysterious country in the world. ”

Mary smiled and said:

- "This Andrei is not wrong. ”

She told me that Peru is the birthplace of the world-famous ancient Inca culture, which is mainly derived from Indian and Spanish traditions, but also influenced by African, Asian and European ethnic groups.

Peruvians are a Latin people, warm and hospitable, although they are often not very punctual. Peru is a multi-ethnic country that has been formed over the past five centuries by the integration of different ethnic groups.

They have a very aristocratic sport there: horse racing!

Horse racing has a long history in Peru and was once one of the mass sports entertainment. The exquisiteness of the racecourse and the mastery of the knightly equestrian skills are well known among international horse racing enthusiasts.

Mary asked me if I had heard of Machu Picchu? Andrei nodded, but I wasn't familiar with the name.

Machu Picchu, the ruins of an ancient city of the ancient Inca Empire in southern Peru, is the most famous tourist attraction in Peru.

In 1983, Machu Picchu was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Machu Picchu is known as the "lost city" of the Inca Empire.

The Spaniards knew nothing about it during its more than 300-year-long colonial rule, and Peru remained untouched for 100 years after independence.

"Machu Pichu" means "ancient mountaintop" in the Inca language. It is located on a plateau 112 kilometers northwest of Cusco, the capital of the ancient Inca Empire, surrounded by mountains and mountains. The ancient city is flanked by 600-metre cliffs and bordered by the fast-flowing Urubamba River. It covers an area of 13 square kilometers and is 2,280 meters above sea level. It is estimated that it was built four or five hundred years ago. In 1911, it was discovered by Heller Bingaman, a professor of South American history at Yale University in the United States.

There is also the famous Royal Felipe Castle

This castle was the largest and most fortified castle built by Spain in the American colonies. It is typical of the mid-16th century European castle architecture style, and is one of the most complete and significant military defense works of the Spanish royal family. Located on the coast of Callao, it guards the entire port of Callao, and there is a tendency to be untouchable.

There is also the mysterious and beautiful, Lake Titicaca,

The lake is the highest and largest freshwater lake in South America and one of the highest in the world.

Located on the Coao Plateau on the border between Bolivia and Peru, it is known as the "Pearl of the Plateau".

There is also a beautiful legend about this lake.

Legend has it that Ikaca, the daughter of the god of water, fell in love with Tito, a young sailor, and married him. When the god of water found out, he drowned Tito, and Ikacafu turned Tito into a hill and himself into a vast lake of tears, which the Indians called "Lake Titicaca" by combining their names. It has an area of 8,330 square kilometers. Two fifths of them are in Peru. Lake Titicaca is one of the cradles of Indian culture in South America. The Indians called it the Sacred Lake. The Ayimara believe that the gods they have worshipped for generations who created the sun and the stars in the sky also come from the bottom of the lake.

Nazca paintings were also discovered by the Americans by accident,

It was discovered in 1939 by American Paul Kosok while studying Paleo-Indian irrigation systems in the Nazca region.

It is located more than 300 kilometers south of Lima, the capital of Peru. It is a multitude of huge lines scattered over the 250 square kilometers of dry sandy surface that are tens of centimeters deep and hundreds of meters to several kilometers long. Straight lines and arrows are the main shapes, but there are also other geometric patterns and animal motifs, such as hummingbirds, capuchin monkeys, etc. Due to its huge size, you need to fly in the air to see the whole picture.

After independence, European immigrants from England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain gradually settled. Mary said, so she also felt that Andrei was very much like a German. After the abolition of slavery, many Chinese came to work in their countries and became a more influential ethnic group. Other immigrants were Arabs and Japanese. Mary said that she had seen many Chinese in Peru, but she had never seen Chinese like me.