Lima, the San Francisco of Perú

It’s all fun and games until someone flies off the springy horse

About a month ago, in a moment of unsurpassed confidence in my kids, I made a reservation at Maido in Lima – one of the top restaurants in the world. Peru is a great place to introduce caviar and foie gras, sea urchin cream and octopus, right?

The most fascinating part of the Huaca Pucllana ruins wasn’t the millions of hand formed, sun baked bricks that survived 1500 years

or the yellow paste still visible that help us picture these pyramids golden and shining, or the tombs with mummies folded in a fetal position and wrapped in dried leaves…

it was the llamas.

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