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High on Altitude
You know those photos of the place where someone in the foreground is holding out their hand, and the person in the background is sitting in it? Those are taken at the salt...
You're so Altiplano
La Paz is the highest capital city on Earth. Once you get over the altitude cikness you'll feel like 7 million Bolivianos (that's a million bucks to you).
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Some of my Best Friends are Peruvian
Nobody’s quite sure how the bowler hat came to be so popular among Quechua and Aymara women. It’s too small for their heads, it doesn’t protect from the sun...
Un Poco Peru
Your first priority should be ordering a plate of fried cuy (guinea pig). Peruvians eat around 65 million of the critters each year. Cusco’s main cathedral even has a...
In the Footsteps of the Incas
Three traits you don’t want to be remembered for on a trek: whinging, laziness and being a sulky-pants. But don’t stress, your support crew will feed you up with...
River Deep, Mountain High, Jungle Very Jungly
Amazon animals to avoid: poison dart frogs, piranhas, anacondas, jaguars, vipers, caimans, tarantulas. We could go on but we’re starting to freak ourselves out. Quick,...
Peru Completo
Pisco is the local version of grape brandy. Shake it up with lemon juice, sugar, egg white and you've got your new favourite drink - a Pisco sour.
(Was Peru...
Annapurna & Animals
If it's Bengal tiger you want, then Chitwan's the place to go. There's also one-horned Asian rhinos, leopards, monkeys and sloth bears (often described as '...
Tales of Rock & Massala Chai
Hard bits: Trekking the Annapurna circuit and getting down from an elephant gracefully. Fun bit: white-water rafting in thermally heated water. Best bit: practicing your...
Ain't no Mountain High Enough
To punish himself for falling asleep while meditating, Buddha cut off his eyelids. These eyelids then grew into the tea plant, because drinking tea will keep you from falling...
