Peruvian cuisine is one of the world’s most interesting food scenes right now — Lima’s Central and Maido both rank in the top ten globally — and Peruways’ Machu Picchu tours work food into the trip.
Drinks worth trying along the way: chicha morada (purple corn, cinnamon, lime), coca tea (standard altitude remedy), and if you’re in Aguas Calientes for dinner, pisco sours. Coca tea in particular is useful on the first days in Cusco.
The guides can point you at Andean staples that don’t show up on standard tourist menus — pachamanca (meat and tubers cooked on hot stones), cuy (guinea pig, a Cusqueño staple), quinoa soup, Andean trout. Many hotels around Machu Picchu now have working relationships with local farms in the Sacred Valley.
Add a food-focused day in Cusco or Lima to your Machu Picchu trip at Peruways.
