Things I love Thursday: Peruvian Edition

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There are many a thing that I love about this crazy place that I´m currently padding around, but please allow me to all the very best bits!

The Sweetly Soft-Sell Vendors and Touts

After the touts of SE Asia (who will swarm your bus, smashing their signs against the windows and pull you by your backpack towards their taxi) and the vendors of Fiji (who will corner you in their booth and follow you yelling ever decreasing prices) the sales people of Peru are demure, sweet little things. "Hostel?" they´ll whisper. "How much you want to pay, Miss?" they´ll shyly murmur. Sometimes you can graze over their wares for an hour and the most you´ll get is a "Hola, amiga." So well-mannered, these Peruvians!

Peruvian Food

Avocados everwhere! Let´s stuff an avocado with cheese and corn and call it a salad! Delicous salty cheeses, hot chocolate, yummo vegetable soups and heaps of vegetarian options.

I can´t say much for the coco tea, though.

Best Busses Ever

Dear America: This is how you do it. With fully reclining seats, movies, stewardesses and food. All to the tune of $12 for 6 hours. Although I am slightly unnerved by the security bit where they stalk around the bus videotaping all of the passengers before we take off.

Llamas

Guys, they are everywhere! Living on Machu Piccu to maintain the grass. laying on the sidewalks of dusty rural towns, poking around big cities with women dressed in traditional garb in antempt to get their photos taken for a few soles. I even tickled a llama under his handsome chin on my way to breakfast this morning. He even had an earring! For realz!

Also: did you know that llamas and alpacas are not the same? I did not. But now you do.

Extra credit

finally acclimating to the altitude, slowly improving my Spanish, plotting blog giveaways of Peruvian goodies (!), sharing all this travel fun with my mister, pan flutes, hats with ear flaps, finding my dog twin, planning for carnival!

What´s good with you kids?!