Traditional aspects in Peru – Real Reporter Online

By Susana Pilar Pacheco Rivas, ESAN University

There are a lot of aspects in our daily lives that are important due to our style of life, the culture of our society or simply just a repetitive action with friends that has become important. Everything we do builds up what we could call “traditions.”

Taking this into consideration, one important aspect in my life is the day I spend with my family every week. Every week on Sunday, I go out with family for the entire full day. We visit some interesting places, buy groceries at the supermarket and—the most joyful activity for me—eat delicious food. We usually tend to try a new restaurant with interesting flavors, such as a restaurant serving Chinese food, Japanese food, Thai food, or seafood. After eating, we make comments to one another about how the food was, if it was served well, tasted good and had a good price. According to these three factors, we make a list of the top ten restaurants we should go again.

There is another important event in Peru, but it´s not my family’s custom. It is an important event in my friends’ lives. Every member of their family believes in the Lord of Miracles, so every year on the 28^th or 29^th day of October, they go to the parade where they follow the Lord of Miracles through many streets until they reach the end point.

Like the activities previously mentioned, there a lot more in many other families, which, in the end, form our culture as a society.

“These photos were taken at Sara Sara’s Restaurant on August 23th by the waitress and my sister, respectively. In the first photo, my family and I were eating seafood. I am the girl in glasses on the left. The second photo shows a plate of rice with seafood like seashells, shrimp and octopus, a typical Peru dish.”