Where your coffee comes from

We met several campesinos who grow coffee along the Urubamba River. It is husked using this hand-turned machine. Coffee farmers earn 6 soles (about $2.30) a kilo. We couldn't bare to tell them that good quality roasted beans would sell for 10 or 12 times that much at home.

Two treks in Perú

June 11th 2007
Claire started dreaming of Machu Picchu after reading Tintin's adventures about hunting down Inca gold during her primary school years. So being in La Paz, only 12 hours by bus from Cusco, the launching point for visits to Machu Picchu, proved too great a temptation, and abandoned our bikes to head north on a bus. Not that it was that simple. It took three ticket changes to leave La Paz becau ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more

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