Nature
When eyesight proves incapable of taking in so much beauty and the wonders of nature become seemingly inexhaustible, one knows that they’re in Southern Peru. A vast setting, replete with volcanoes, high snowcapped peaks, peaceful valleys, challenging canyons, fickle rivers, placid lakes, far ranging plateaus and infinite deserts. A place lacking neither environmental multiplicity nor scenic diversity, a realm wherein one can state -without any uncertainty- that nature is breathed everywhere. View MapThe Coast
Peru is one of the few countries possessing a mega-biodiversity, it also has the second largest variety of bird species in the planet.
Its scenery and protected areas are second to none, and it has become a paradise to nature lovers. In The Pacific coast there is a conspicuous abundance of birdlife.
The Mountains (Sierra)
The Peruvian Sierra is an integral part of the Cordillera of the Andes which is the longest mountain chain in the world. Its scenic beauty is characterized by deep fertile valleys, vast highland plateaus, enormous lakes and abundant flora and fauna. All of this is surmounted by soaring snowcapped peaks. Here nature and quotidian life are not divorced from each other.
Many of the natural wonders that the Highlands of Southern Peru have to offer, have in turn been categorized as Conservation Units thus allowing them o remain protected and untouched. One such protected area is found close to Arequipa, the National Reserve of “Salinas and Aguada Blanca”.
The Amazon Rainforest
Peru is one of the eight countries in the world that posses a mega biodiversity, which encompasses 84 of the 104 life zones or environmental levels zones found in the planet. And this is best seen in the Amazon basin
Between Puno and Madre de Dios, lies “Bahuaja Sonene” National Park, home of the endangered “Giant River Otter” and the “Black Caiman”. That part of it which consists of the flat grassland savannahs, known as “Pampas del Heath”, are also home to the American “Anteater”.
