View Peruvian Guinea Pig Festival Images. Peru is famous for its macchu pichu ruins, its roaming llamas, and lake titikaka and now a guinea pig festival. Contestants at the festival cook up their guinea pigs in a variety of ways and then dress them in costumes to impress the judges.

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For more than 5,000 years, cute little guinea pigs have been the centre of many cultural activities and local cuisine for peruvian communities and indigenous tribes. Peruvian guinea pigs should be recognizable thanks to the long hair which drapes around their little rodent bodies. Every year, the peruvian town of churin holds a guinea pig festival, including an elaborate costume competition.

It has long, flowing hair that makes it a favorite of show judges.

(we probably should be calling guinea pigs cavies, simply because they aren't from guinea and they are not pigs.) in huacho, the citizens have been holding a guinea pig for several years. The animals, known as cuy, were actually first domesticated in peru and ecuador perhaps as early as 5000 bce. The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (cavia porcellus), also known as cavy or domestic cavy (/ˈkeɪvi/), is a species of rodent belonging to the family caviidae and the genus cavia. This is a sociable and friendly breed.