Bon Jovi to perform in Lima, Peru

Rumors about U.S. rock band Bon Jovi playing in Peru’s capital city Lima have been confirmed by event organizer MVV & Asociados.

MVV & Asociados has just published on its Facebook page a poster with the slogan: “Bon Jovi. Lima, Peru”, adding “Soon…” as a comment.

The American band will reportedly arrive in Lima during the first week of October as part of its worldwide tour, which will also hit Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.

Jon Bon Jovi and his quintet are currently touring on a two-year world concert series that began in February after the release last November of their 11th studio album "The Circle."

During its two decade career, the Grammy-award winning band has sold more than 120 million albums worldwide and was one of the top five touring acts worldwide in 2008.

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SPANISH TV CHANNEL PROMOTES CUSCO

AS AMERICAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE
ANDINA. Cusco and other cities selected as American Capitals of Culture in the first decade of the 21st century are being promoted in 19 Ibero-American countries by the Spanish TV channel Antena 3 Internacional.

The Imperial city of Cusco in southern Peru, selected as American Capital of Culture in 2007, is included in the advertising spots, said the President of the International Bureau of Cultural Capitals, Xavier Tudela.

The TV spot is airing in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, the U.S. (New York, Kansas, Miami), Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Peru.

The American Capital of Culture was created in 1998 to be an instrument of Inter-American integration in the cultural sphere, to contribute to the peoples of the American continent knowing each other better respecting its national and regional diversity as well as highlighting their shared cultural heritage, and to promote the cities nominated as the American Capital of Culture in the American hemisphere.

Machu picchu 2010

After Peru evacuates last tourists from Machu Picchu in January and  February and Machu Picchu site were reopen in April

The famed Incan citadel Machu Picchu was reopened in April after being shut on january and february when torrential rains cut off most access to the ancient site, the Peruvian government said .

The heavy rains triggered mudslides that washed away parts of the only railroad that connects the mountaintop ruins with the nearby city of Cusco.

Apart from the train, the only ways to reach Machu Picchu -- the impressively intact remains of an Incan city shrouded by thick jungle -- are to trek some 28 miles through steep mountain passes, or fly by helicopter.

The Peruvian government airlifted some 4,000 travelers from the site in January after the heaviest rains in the region in 15 years stranded them and killed five people.

"The citadel is intact and we expect to open Machu Picchu on April 1," Martin Perez, Peru's trade and tourism minister, told reporters in Lima.

Machu Picchu, which was built in the mid-15th century and lies some 680 miles southeast of Lima, is a World Heritage Site. About a million people a year visit the ruins, which lie 7,874 feet above sea-level.

Ferrocarril Transandino, the company in charge of operating the railway, said repairs were moving forward.

The company is a unit of Orient-Express Hotels, whose shares on the New York Stock Exchange rose some 2.4 percent on Tuesday to close near $11.55.

"If the weather continues to cooperate, the railway will be finished by early April," Ferrocarril Transandino said.

The government has estimated economic losses stemming from the drop in tourism at some $160 million.

Right Now is secure to travel to visit machu picchu? Yes

The Trains is ok now? Yes

it is recomended to do The Inca Trail on 2010? Yes so many people book this treks this year.

Peruvian team paints mountain white to rehab a melted glacier

Peruvian Eduardo Gold is one of 26 people around the world to win the World Bank’s “100 Ideas to Save the Planet” contest and his dream is to bring back Peru’s glaciers from the effects of global warming.

Mr. Gold is not a scientist — though some might think he’s a genius, others that he’s got a couple of screws loose — but he’s using the cash prize from the contest to whitewash three mountains just west of Ayacucho, Peru in hopes of bringing back melted glaciers that once hung there, high above the village of Licapa.

According to inhabitat.com, In the past two weeks he and his team of four men have used a mixture of lime, egg whites and water to turn the Chalon Sombrero peak white. They’ve successfully whitewashed two hectares in the past two weeks and they’ve only got 68 more to go.

“Cold generates more cold, just as heat generates more heat,” Mr. Gold told the BBC, “I am hopeful that we could re-grow a glacier here because we would be recreating all the climatic conditions necessary for a glacier to form.”

Before he entered the World Bank contest, Mr. Gold read up on glaciology and found that white surfaces actually reflect the sun’s rays back into the atmosphere instead of internalizing heat.