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The Greatest Battle of them All!!, The World Cup Trailer. ?Who Will Win at South Africa? Video By anasian
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FIFA's Football World Cup, South Africa 2010; the first World Cup in the African continent will be the biggest televised event in world history .
Here is part 2 in Castelliano (Castillian Spanish) of this impressive video called "El Pisco Patrimonio Cultural Del Peru - Parte 2" (Peru's Pisco Cultural Heritage).
There is a short interview with restaurateur, Peruvian media mogul, publisher, hotelier, and #1 Latin American celebrity chef Gaston Acurio in Lima, Peru. Gaston is the owner of the five star Astrid y Gaston, La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, Tanta, and other top Peruvian brand restaurants. He currently owns 40+ upscale Peruvian restaurants around the world. He also owns the Mistura Peruvian Cuisine Expo, the largest cuisine expo in all Latin America.
Also in the video is Pedro Schiaffino, one of Peru's top young chefs and the owner ofMalabar in San Isidro, Peru. According to this month's Food & Wine Magazine here in the United States, Malabar is the 4th best lounge & bar in the world!
According to Food & Wine Magazine - "the Peruvian Pisco Sour is the most elegant of Latin American drinks. Far superior and more refined than the Cuban Mojito, the Brazilian Caipirinha, and the Californian Margarita. Pisco Sour made with Pisco Peruano and the Limon Peruano, the best lime in the world, has no rival."
The one and only "Coca Sour Peruano" - the mind boggling & sheer ecstasy inducing drink from the ancient Incas the Peruvian Coca Sour made of coca leaves (the raw leaves that is used to make cocaine)!!! This is pure coca leaves not extract or coca infused Pisco.
Picture of the truly unique "Coca Pisco Peruano" at an upscale restaurant in Miraflores, Peru. This drink is illegal in the Unites States and in most countries around the world. But in San Francisco I know a top Peruvian restaurant that serves a Coca infused Pisco Sour! It is much diluted, so it not the same thing. But it is the closes thing you can get to being in Peru.
Here is the website and short video of one of the United States' greatest ski resort - Squaw Valley USA.
Squaw Valley Ski Resortis Tahoe's most expansive resort has 33 lifts that access 4000 acres of legendary terrain. The resort hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics and that spirit lives on today. This season join in the fun as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of those Olympic games and the 60th anniversary of the resort's opening.
Looking at the Squaw Valley Tram with beautiful Lake Tahoe, CA. in the background!!!
The Mother Ship & me
After a hard & fun day of skiing the runs below "The Mothership" - KT - 22 liftat Squaw Valley USA! The greatest (most difficult) chair lift in America!!!
Castellano (Español)
Despues de un duro dia de diversion en las pistas de esqui por debajo de "The Mothership" (la Madre Nave) - KT-22 de elevacion en Squaw Valley USA!La grua mas grande (difícil) de esqui en los Estados Unidos!
High Camp @ El. 8,200 ft (2,499 meters)
Features - Spectacular views of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada, ice skate
at the Olympic Ice Pavilion, learn a little more
about the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Museum, enjoy the Snowtubing Arena, drink at the Poolside Umbrella Bar, and soak up the Sierra Nevada sun in the Swimming Lagoon
& Spa (opens for the Spring and Summer).
Look toward the Siberia ski lift at Squaw Valley USA.
At top of Granite Peak, Squaw Valley USA - Windbuffed.
MGM City Center opens to the general public tomorrow Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009! Interesting, one of City Center's major investorDubai World announced a possible bankruptcy on Thanksgiving Day, Nov 26, 2009.
This Saturday, November 21, 2009, is the big annual bikini, trikini, and lingerie fashion show at the imposing "Plaza de Armas" in Lima, Peru call "Desfile Lima esta de Moda 2009". These top Peruvian models will showcase the latest in swimwear and lingerie for Verano 2009-2010 (Summer '09-'10).
The show will be lead by Peru's top and one of Latin America's premier bikini model - Tilsa. She has won Miss Peru Hawaiian Tropic, Miss Hawaiian Tropic International, Miss Peru Reef, Miss Reef International, Miss Peru Playboy, and Miss Playboy TV Latin America & Iberia (Latin America, Spain, & Portugal) in the last two years. In other words, Tilsa has a spectacular body that is second to none in bikini contest!!!
Pictures of Peru's 25 year old bikini beauty Tilsa:
A recent front page picture from the top Newspaper in Chile, El Mercurio - "Peru is in style". An extensive report of Peru's dramatic transformation from an impoverish left wing, liberal, socialist, and dictatorship lead third-world country in the 70's and 80's to a leading capitalist power in Latin America from 1990 to the present and beyond. The report describes Peru's emergence as a tourist, cuisine, cultural, historical, fashion, capitalist, business, and environmentally friendly world power.
This cover page showcases the giant Cathedral of Lima, the oldest cathedral in the New World, at the Plaza de Armas in Lima, Peru.
Here is the expanded panoramic view of the Plaza de Armas at NIGHT!!!
The 17th century historian Bernabe Cobo said of the Plaza de Armas in Lima, Peru:
..."it is the finest and most well-formed [plaza] that I have
ever seen, even in Spain. It occupies an entire block, with the width
of four streets on one side and four streets on the other, and with all
four sides it measures more than two thousand feet; it is very flat..."
Here is more of the giant Peruvian Cuisine festival in Lima, Peru on opening day Thursday, Sept 24, 2009. This four day food event is by far the largest cuisine festival in all of Latin America. The organizers of this event, international Peruvian celebrity chef & restaurateur Gaston Acurio and the government of Peru, are expecting 300,000+ paid attendance from around the world this weekend!!! And it is only the second edition of this international Peruvian Cuisine festival.
The video is called "Mas Mistura, Mas Sabor! Buen Provecho Peru". Rough translation: More Mistura (mixture/fusion), More Taste! Good Work Peru. The music in the background is called "Festejo" and it is Peruvian-Afro or Afro-Peruvian.
A few images from the 1st day of Mistura Peru 2009 from various photo bloggers in Lima, Peru:
Today is the 188th Anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Peru from Spain! But it has over 10,000 years of scientifically verified history. The domestication of the potato in Peru has
been verified by European and American scientists to be 8,000 years
before Christ! From Alaska, USA to Tierra de Fuego, Argentina, Peru is the oldest civilization in all the Americas. In northern Peru, Caral has been verified by European scientists to be over 2,000 years older than the oldest Mayan civilization in Guatemala and Southern Mexico.
In Latin America, Peru has no rival when it comes its archaeological, biological, historical, religious (Catholicism) and culture influence (especially in South America). When it comes to its historical alliance to Spain, theViceroyalty of Peru or Viceroyalty of New Castile (el Virreinato del Peru o el Virreinato de Nuevo Castilla) was the largest, richest, and most powerful viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire from the 15th, 16th, and 17th century. Lima, Peru was capital of practically all of South America, including Brazil! In world significance, Peru's ancient civilizations are as old as Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), Egypt, China, and India.
On a global scale, Peru is by far the most biologically diverse country in the world with the most animals, fishes, incests, birds, and plant species in the Peruvian Amazon (lowland & highland jungles), tropical Andes, Andean glaciers, and coastal deserts.
Here, in high-definition (HD), is the national anthem of Peru with spectacular scenery of present day Peru. The anthem is not well known like the U.S., French, or English one; but if you hear it to its entirety you will come to the conclusion that it has to be among the most beautiful anthems.
Listen to the instrumental version in the 1st-half and then listen in the 2nd-half to the vocal version by Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez, argumentatively the best tenor in the world today and heir to Spanish great Placido Domingo.
Happy Birthday Peru! - ¡Feliz cumpleaños Perú!
Peruvian Anthem in HD cinemascope 2.35:1 ratio - Stereo Sound. New comprehensive English translation subtitles. See spectacular scenery of Machu-Picchu, the
Peruvian coast, Lima and other inland places. Peru - a large Latin American
republic in the mid-west of South America on the equator and south of the equator.
Map of Peru during most of the colonial era - Virreinato/Virreynato del Perú
Viceroyalty of Peru - The "Peruvian Empire" so to speak. Quote - "If Spain is the motherland of Latin America, Peru is the motherland of South American." Originally stated by King Juan Carlos of Spain in 2007 and later used by current President of Peru, Dr. Alan Garcia in 2008.
Present day Peru, Central and South America. Juan Diego Florez and his wife, fashion model Julia Trappe.
Oleg Kaponik’s virtual tour of Rio de Janeiro lets you explore Brazil’s Marvelous City from any number of elevated vantage points.
The (minimal) text is in Russian — but the page is easy to navigate: Use your arrow keys to get around, and the SHIFT and CONTROL keys to zoom in or out of the picture.Once you get the hang of it, you can drop in on Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, or catch a glimpse of the Christ the Redeemer statue as it peeks out through the cloudsover Corcovado Mountain. Now, if we could get these Russians to invade our air space . . .