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Gastón Acurio's guinea pig, Cuy Pequinés, in Cusco, Peru photo

Eating guinea pig: A pet at home, dinner in Peru

February 27, 2013 · by Lauren · in Food, Peru, Travel Stories

An old saying begins, “If you love somebody, let them go.” If you’re traveling to Peru and you’ve had a guinea pig as a pet, a more fitting expression may be, “If you’ve loved something, put it in your belly.”

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,…

Nibbling anticuchos, skewered street food, Cusco, Peru photo

Call me “Captain,” because I’m eating beef heart

July 17, 2012 · by Lauren · in Food, Peru, Travel Stories

Marinated, char-grilled skewers of cow heart schmeared with hot pepper sauce, bought from a smoke-shrouded street food vendor. If that vision of Peruvian anticuchos doesn’t get your lips smacking, you may not be ready for this.

A mug of mate de coca or coca tea, Cusco, Peru photo

Soroche suffering: How to prevent altitude sickness in Peru

July 8, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Guides

After visiting Cusco, Peru and the rest of the Sacred Valley, I am now all too aware of the fragility of human beings. Specifically this human being. I’m a sea-level creature — childhood through collegehood spent on the New York…

Animal parts hung by hair in Cusco's Central Market, Peru photo

Cusco’s offally interesting Mercado Central

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

Though I’ve explored the aisles of markets all over the world, the meaty bits on display at the Mercado Central (Central Market) in Cusco, Peru challenge even my steady stomach.

Parrot mural and live donkey, San Blas, Cusco, Peru photo

The hard-to-find street art of Cusco, Peru

June 26, 2012 · by Lauren · in Art, Peru, Photo Essays

While nearly every block in Lima, Peru had street art in the form of stencil, a mural, or tag, in Cusco, street art is a rare thing. Most of the town has been cleaned up for the tourists. That or…

A nun, a church, a taxi, Cusco, Peru photo

Here are the people in the neighborhood

June 21, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Photo Essays

I can’t resist a good bout of street photography. If it’s ever offered, I’ll be first in line for a computerized camera in my eye so I don’t miss a thing. In Cusco, Peru, as we explored the Plaza de…

Shadows and sunlight, Cusco, Peru photo

What’s revealed around the corner in Cusco

June 19, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Photo Essays

If you wander deep enough into Cusco, Peru — away from the Plaza de Armas and generally in an uphill direction — you can escape the touts and the tourist traps. In the side streets and alleys, the city starts…

Cápac Colla dancers, Saint Joseph's Day, Cusco, Peru photo

The cult of saints, live and in person

June 18, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

Back in a college class about early religion, I read The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity by Peter Brown. Stay with me here…

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