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Chris Moss - Writes Beginners Guide to Peru
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Chris Moss has written the latest in a series of Latin America guides for the Telegraph, and 'A Beginners Guide to Peru' and the full article is well worth a read.
Here are his reccommendations in brief:
Top five attractions
Machu Picchu
Iquitos and the Upper Amazon
Arequipa
Chan Chan
Nazca Lines
Best city
Cuzco, because, despite being backpackers-ville, it has many impressive monasteries, churches and pre-Columbian buildings
Souvenir to buy
A bottle of finest pisco, the national firewater.
Quirky Peru
Peru is famous for having its own cola drink, Inka Cola – often put forward as proof of an independent spirit and anti-Americanism. But the firm that produces the urine-coloured drink is part-owned by Coca-Cola.
Read
Hugh Thomson's The White Rock, which deftly combines a history of the last days of the Incas with a gripping story about the search for lost cities buried in uncharted corners of the Sacred Valley.
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