Each February in Puno, high in the Peruvian Andes, 100,000 dancers, men and women, celebrate the Festival of the Virgen of Candelaria. The people come from the town itself and from communities all around. And in Lima too they gather at the same time: the people from who now live on the mountainside settlements on the edges of the capital, the Pueblos Jovenes, new towns, who recognise, on this day, their belonging to the communities around the lake 20 hours journey to the South.
