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Llama vs Alpaca vs Vicuña vs Guanaco: How to Tell the Difference
You arrive in Peru. You see a fluffy animal. You say: “Look, a llama!” There is a reasonable chance it is an…
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You arrive in Peru. You see a fluffy animal. You say: “Look, a llama!” There is a reasonable chance it is an…
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The eucalyptus forests around Cusco look so natural in the Andean landscape that it is easy to assume they have always been…
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Cusco is famous for pisco. That can make it easy to overlook something else: the city has become a surprisingly good place…
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The most interesting part of this Cusco painting workshop is not that you leave with something you made. It is that the…
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The easiest mistake to make when looking for healthy food in Cusco is assuming that “healthy” means salad. It does not. A…
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One of the easiest mistakes to make in Cusco is assuming that a short hike is automatically an easy hike. It is…
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A picnic in Cusco sounds simple until you try to choose a place. The obvious idea is to buy bread, cheese and…
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The biggest mistake travelers make in Maras and Moray is surprisingly simple: they treat the area as two photo stops. Drive to…
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The first surprise about the Torito de Pucará is hidden in its name. The ceramic bull did not originate exactly where most…
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