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Purple flowers and a view of Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Huff, puff, and smell the flowers of Colca Canyon

September 5, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Photo Essays

Who’da thunk that hiking up the steep, deep, Colca Canyon, Peru would have been easier than hiking down the same 3,300-feet? Going downhill was so rough that I couldn’t stop and smell the…well, I don’t know what they’re all called,…

Llahuar Lodge cabin 105, Colca Canyon, Peru photo

The greatest fool in Peru

September 4, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

During dinner in a rustic hiker guesthouse at the bottom of Colca Canyon, Peru, Todd decides to treat our fellow travelers to a conversation to remember, for all the wrong reasons. His choice? A story about a penis.

Sign to Llahuar hiking trail, Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Hitting rock bottom in Colca Canyon

August 30, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

I’m not the kind of chick who cries. Though I’m overflowing with empathy, I’m cut from stoic stock. I cry more often while cutting onions than from sorrow or joy. Yet, at the bottom of the world’s deepest canyon, I…

Mountain view through tower window, Cabanaconde, Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Small town, big sky

August 28, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

There is a noticeable lack of urgency in Cabanaconde, Peru. It’s likely that this placid state is related to the lack of people and of things to do. Buses arrive, buses depart, one set of backpackers replaces another. Yet, it’s…

Andean Condor over the mountains of Colca Canyon, Peru photo

The condors of Colca Canyon have a posse

August 27, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

Who would travel deep into Colca Canyon via a pot-holed, fear-inducing, six-hour bus ride and still say to hell with seeing the area’s acclaimed and rare Andean condors? Anyone who hates early morning wake-up calls. Namely, me.

Collagua woman in traditional hat and embroidered outfit, road to Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Let’s terrace the clouds

August 16, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

This bus smells like I imagine alpaca farts must smell — a mix of ripe compost, dry grass, wet wool, and barnyard sweat. For the next six hours, I have no choice but to breathe it in. As we begin…

Happiness Tea and quark cheesecake, Granja Heidi restaurant, Cusco, Peru photo

Cusco, Peru travel guide – The YEH, MEH, NAHs

August 1, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Guides

Cusco, Peru is a town teetering on a precipice of unpalatablility. Touts interrupting private moments, taxis careening through small streets, tourists drinking to excess, smutty air pollution, and slutty corporatization threaten to bury this otherwise charming town. And the charm…

Glass of chicha de jora, Cusco, Peru photo

Wetting my whistle with someone else’s spit

July 31, 2012 · by Lauren · in Food, Peru, Travel Stories

“Chicha de jora? Isn’t that the stuff they make with spit? Eww.” Such was the typical reaction when someone heard chicha de jora in the list of foods and drinks I wanted to try in Peru. That or a confused,…

Jetpac guest blog post screenshot

“Lauren’s bucket list” on Jetpac

July 26, 2012 · by Lauren · in Detritus

I blew my writing wad this week on a fun guest post on Jetpac and on a Peru travel story about the deaths of two guinea pigs, one a pet, one a meal. I liked the guinea pig story so…

Pisco sour with aguaymanto from Peru photo

Pisco sours: Drinking and making a tasty little bird

July 24, 2012 · by Lauren · in Food, Peru, Recipes

Just as ouzo has never tasted as good as it did is Greece, pisco sours have never tasted as good as they do in Peru. Chilly pisco sours kept the sweat at bay in Lima and exacerbated our altitude sickness…

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