Looking at country, celebrate (8)
I believe the answer is:
perusing
'looking at' is the definition.
(perusing is a kind of looking at)
'country celebrate' is the wordplay.
'country' becomes 'peru' (Peru is an example).
'celebrate' becomes 'sing' (I've seen this before).
'peru'+'sing'='PERUSING'
(Other definitions for perusing that I've seen before include "Reading carefully" , "Examining with attention" .)