
The Diablada dance.
At this time of year in Peru, many colorful festivals
begin leading up to Holy Week. One of the most famous takes place in Puno by
Lake Titicaca in early February called La Virgen de La Candelaria, which
features hundreds of traditional dances and brilliant masks and costumes.


Likewise, the costumes are fantastically elaborate,
made with gold and silver embroidery, precious stones and rich fabrics. Some of
these costumes can weigh up to 30kg (60 lbs)! Imagine walking with so much
weight much less dancing! Costume makers begin as early as August to prepare
for the festival, and the result is a dazzling show, the fight between good and
evil in which the good triumphs.
I think the Diablada is the most wonderful and amazing Peruvian festival around the world, but as we know it is not the unique, because there are others festivals with different costumes and they has got to pretty and beautiful customs too.
For example:
Chujchu or ChukchuChujchu:

A comical dance in which the dancers represent labourers who, during the Colonial era, went to the tropical valleys and jungle regions to find work on the sugar plantations and returned with malaria and yellow fever!! The dancers often fall to the ground in violent convulsions and are "treated" by doctors and nurses who carry various medical instruments such as giant syringes and irrigators! .
Qhapaq Ch'unchu / Kapac Chunchu / Capac Chunchu.
