re: #215 HappyWarrior

Sounds good. I love love Peruvian food. I need to brush up on my Spanish though. I still laugh at the time my SiL’s older sister posted photos in Colombia and I joked that she was La Patrona de Mar instead of La Patrona De Mal. I think the plan would be to fly to Lima and I’m not sure what from there. It would be a fun experience for my niece though. I think my brother would probably like to wait until his daughter is older so it’s something she’ll remember.

The food is great, fair amount of regional variation (Peru is a big place) and any level of proficiency in the language is a big plus. If you can, get across the Andes to Iquitos and the Peruvian Amazon. The flight over the mountains is really spectacular. Once there, it’s like a different planet from Lima and the mountains. The Amazon is not as pretty as the mountains but is is awesome nevertheless, by far the most navigable river in the world. Ocean going ships (up to @ 2000 tons) can reach Iquitos by traveling completely across Brazil, more than 2000 miles, on the Amazon.