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FESTIVAL OF THE CROSSES
This festival is held on May 3 in Lima, Apurímac, Ayacucho, Junín, Ica and Cuzco. (
June
High season for international tourism runs June through August, with Machu Pic-
chu requiring advance reservations for train tickets and entry. It's also the busiest
time for festivals in and around Cuzco .
CORPUS CHRISTI
Processions in Cuzco are especially dramatic. Held on the ninth Thursday after Easter. (
INTI RAYMI
The Festival of the Sun; also the Feast of St John the Baptist and Peasant's Day, it's the
greatest of Inca festivals, celebrating the winter solstice on June 24. It's certainly the spec-
tacle of the year in Cuzco (
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, attracting thousands of Peruvian and foreign vis-
itors. It's also a big holiday in many jungle towns.
SELVÁMANOS
Reggae,
cumbia
and electronica rock the jungle at this new music festival (
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held near Oxapampa, in a spectacular national park setting.
SAN JUAN
The feast of San Juan (
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is all debauchery in Iquitos, where dancing, feasting
and cockfights go until the wee hours on the eve of the actual holiday of June 24.
