Anyone with Asian features quickly stands out as a foreigner in most of Latin America. But not in Peru, where a large percentage of the population is of Asian descent. Lima's Chinatown. Photo:Andina / Archive The first Chinese and Japanese who left their countries for Peru trusted that their har...

Machu Picchu At midnight tonight you will be able to begin participating in our 2010 Free Trip to Cusco and Machu Picchu. The grand prize of course is a 6 day trip to Machu Picchu. Stay tuned at www.karikuy.org/contest for contest rules. This is not a sweepstakes so you are firmly in control of whe...

Often I go back to the date of September 13th, 2007 as the birth of the Karikuy Organization, that’s when the original website launched under our previous name of Manchakuy. Since then I have been blogging annually about the organization and the progress we’ve been making with our progra...

This is an article that was originally posted by the Associated press, it has since been taken down from their website and on their Google sponsored page. I have decided to host a copy and keep it archived here at the blog so that it is always available for the public. Fighting the odds to keep Indi...

If you were thinking about traveling to Peru this year or next you probably were planning on making the trip during the summer months of May through September. This is when generally the whole world descends upon Peru, the high season of Tourism in the country. This can mean inflated prices, crowded...

Since 1928, the bitter feud between the two biggest clubs in Peru has claimed heart felt wins and devastating losses on both fields. The battle for the best soccer team in Peru has claimed many lives in the process due to the violent nature of the sport in South America, but nowhere else in the worl...

In the Peruvian jungles east of Cusco lies a very peculiar city. A city known by many names; Paikikin, Vilcapampa, El Gran Paititi but most famously as El Dorado, the legendary lost city of Gold. The place where the Incas hid what remained of their golden treasures, Idols and Kings. Since I was youn...

Sitting here in my New York office is unsettling. You see, only days ago I was back in Peru running the organizations volunteer program. However with all the small problems and complications thrown at me, the program in the log run was a huge success. The Karikuy Volunteer Program has come to an end...

The drive was long, slow and for the most part painful.  As mentioned in Andrew’s previous blog it took 16 + hours to arrive to our destination of Arequipa.   When we finally arrived at the city’s bus terminal the owner of the hostel that we would be staying at was there to greet us and to ta...

Gorgeous This weekend I was lucky enough to be granted a whopping 16 ½ hour bus ride, each way, for a chance to take a glance at Arequipa, Peru. But it was really Sophie who hit the jackpot as she had the privilege of sitting next to me during the entire expedition! She was even more excited when...