Coca Tea
My travel companion and I enjoyed a lot of coca tea in Peru, especially during our first two days at altitude in Cusco. A fine tonic to ease the symptoms of altitude sickness, coca tea is simply dried coca leaves steeped in hot water. With a slightly bitter, grassy flavour, I would not recommend it [...]
Machu Picchu Llama
I always feel a little silly and self-conscious taking dodgy pictures of the same thing from the same angle at the same time as hundreds of other tourists, particularly if I’m wielding a relatively expensive camera. And even if the result isn’t too shabby, I’ll know that the kid with the camera phone got the [...]