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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…

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.

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…

Stencil street art of Peruvian taking a tourist's photo, Cusco, Peru photo

Sacred and profane: Put a tout on it

June 7, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Photo Essays, Travel Stories

We avoid making eye contact with most everyone in Cusco‘s Plaza de Armas. Being so shifty eyed makes chilling out on one of the main square’s park benches a little awkward. We want to people watch, because there are just…

View of Cusco, Peru drawing

Drawing of Cusco’s rooftops from the hills of San Blas

June 6, 2012 · by Todd · in Peru, Travel Art

While wandering aimlessly through Cusco, Peru‘s hilly San Blas neighborhood, the choice is pretty much just up or down. We choose to wander up and up until we come across a small terrace. Seats at a table. Coca tea. And…

Beseecher at Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús, Cusco, Peru photo

Sacred and profane: Put a cross on it

June 5, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Photo Essays, Travel Stories

Neither Todd or I are religious. Ask us if we believe in god, and we’ll tell you stories instead. About how, when we first moved to San Francisco, we hosted a combined Passover Easter party and a Hindu guest knew…

Iglesia la Compañía de Jesús, Cusco, Peru drawing

Drawing of Cusco’s Iglesia la Compañía de Jesús

June 4, 2012 · by Todd · in Peru, Travel Art

The Jesuits of the 1600s sure knew how use a church to get all up in the face of others. Built to outshine the nearby Catholic church, La Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús, or Church of the Society of…

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