Floating elegance: The social area aboard the Delfin 1 Amazon cruise ship. BY CHALLEN CLARKEIf you want to experience the Amazon River by boat, there may be no better place to begin than Iquitos, the most important jungle city in Peru. Despite being only accessible by air and boat, this bustling city has been the…
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Ayahuasca Journeying: Psychotropic Travel in Peru, Part 2
The skies over Peru look different when you’re sipping a psychotropic drink. In Part 1 of this feature, intrepid traveler Maureen Stanucci recounted her quest for Ayahuasca, a vine used in a pscyhotropic drink in Peru. Now, she shares her experience after she reaches the destination and sips the drink herself. BY MAUREEN STANUCCI Our destination…
Ayahuasca Journeying: Psychotropic Travel in Peru, Part 1
BY MAUREEN STANUCCI The first time I came to Peru as a tourist, my friend and I had read about Ayahuasca in a guidebook and thought we might try it out. If you’ve never heard of it before, Ayahuasca is a vine that grows in the jungle and is used in a psychotropic drink for healing…
In Peru, Lima’s Carnaval Shows Underdog Pluck
Carnival in Lima, Perú, is a rowdy, pirate-filled experience. Photos by Matthew Barker. BY MATTHEW BARKER The general rule of thumb for festivals in this part of the world is that the earlier the liquor store opens, the more explosive the party will be. So when my local store ran out of beer at 10:30am,…