We have been gawking at adorables alpacas ever since we arrived in Cusco, and today we got to feed some at an alpaca petting zoo. The sign explains that all of the members of the camel family originated in North America and migrated out from there, including the dromedary. There is one family member still […]

Once through the basics, our guides started off by telling us we are all saying Cusco wrong. The correct word, Cosco, is actually an old Incan word in the Quechuan language, meaning umbilicus. This reflects that Cosco was the center of the Incan empire and was viewed as the center of the world. So here […]

The Larco Museum houses 4,000 years of pre-Columbian Peruvian relics, and this was the one thing we all agreed we should see today. We had booked an afternoon flight to Cusco, thinking that we might be cutting our time in Lima short. Now that we were in Lima, we recognized that there are reasons people […]

The traffic pressed tight around our car, closer than even L realized, as she jumped when she saw the bus a few inches outside her window. This is Lima, a colloidal mix of impoverished neighborhoods where trash overflows into the streets and mixes with exhaust to perfume the air, and wealthy restored neighborhoods where pedestrians […]

The first seeds of any trip are sown well before I step out my door and head to the airport. Sometimes they have been laid mere weeks or months in advance, such as in my trips to Budapest and Marrakech, which began with me scouring the internet for fare sales, and in the end choosing […]