Peru

Eating at street stalls is one of my favorite activities on my world travels. Here, the food is often fresher, more authentic and tastier than in the restaurant around the corner, and you can see exactly what you’re getting beforehand. On a village street of …

While traveling through southern Peru with Remo, other travelers kept telling us about the so-called Rainbow Mountain. It is Vinicunca, a magnificent mountain striped in seven colors, which one could take a guided day tour to from Cusco. No question, after all the gushing, we …

There is something magical about the twilight atmosphere in the Plaza de Armas in Cusco. This is helped by the warm yellow light given off by the plaza lamps, which reflects from the blank slabs producing long shadows from the people strolling by. This yellow …

On the Peruvian island of Taquile in the middle of beautiful Lake Titicaca, time seems to stand still. No hotels, no police, a healthy age structure and largely self-sewn clothing. The Spanish colonists however, tried hard to change the islanders’ traditional way of life, but …

When I traveled through Peru for the first time fifteen years ago, I got gastroenteritis after having a freshly squeezed fruit juice at the market right at the beginning of the trip. After that, I didn’t think for a moment about trying one of the …

In many countries around the world, I have encountered children who looked to me like adults in children’s bodies. Unlike their peers, they lack childlike curiosity, playfulness and joie de vivre. In the Peruvian city of Cusco, in front of a shoe store, I spotted …

I encounter tourist magnets with mixed feelings. On the one hand, they have not without reason become the center of attraction for people from all continents and therefore usually possess something particularly worth seeing. On the other hand, they are often surrounded by characterless areas …