KulturSchock Peru is the informative companion to better understand Peru and its inhabitants. It explains the cultural peculiarities, the thought processes, and behaviors of the people, thus providing orientation in the unfamiliar travel routine. Cultural stumbling blocks are entertainingly and easily cleared away, while providing solid background knowledge on history, society, religion, and traditions. This includes behavior tips from A to Z with many suggestions for appropriate conduct, as well as references to supplementary and entertaining multimedia sources on the internet and literature recommendations for further exploration. A poor country with an indigenous population, high mountains, and pan flute music: these widespread clichés have nothing in common with today's Andean country and its people. Individuals from five different continents, who have partially mixed significantly.