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If you’ve had your share of Peruvian food and are looking for a different ethnicity, try the fabulous Japanese restaurant Kintaro only one block from the main plaza. The dining room is open and elegantly decorated, and the food is served on Asian-style wooden planks. The sushi menu here includes bizarre combinations like the bacon avocado roll, which, I concluded, is much better than it sounds. The large noodle soup...Read More

As I have the opportunity to do some of the treks that Apus Peru offer, I can only be inspired every time I go on one. Every day hike that is available offers something different, new views of the surrounding mountains of the Cusco region and always an experience to be shared. Photos and words tell only half of the story – you have to go there to really understand!...Read More

Mount Veronica Peru, Protector of the Sacred Valley The mountain known today as Mt Veronica towers over the Sacred Valley, near Urubamba and Ollantaytambo. Standing at an impressive 5860m tall (19,226 ft), Mount Veronica is the highest peak in the Urubamba mountain range, known locally as the cordillera urubamba. Of course the name “Veronica” was given to her by the Spanish during the conquest; the original name for this important apu...Read More

Last year Megan Malley, Threads of Peru intern, had the delightful task of sampling a variety of Cusco’s restaurants for our Blog. A continuation from her earlier posts, here is another to wet your appetite for a cuisine other than that you may have expected in Cusco! As surprising as it may sound to find Indian food in Peru, make sure not to skip over Korma Sutra in the artsy...Read More

My name is Matt, I work as a Travel Consultant for Apus Peru. I’d like to introduce myself as a new and regular blogger to report first-hand information on some of the Apus Peru treks and to obtain up-to-date relative trip information and experiences of the treks associated with Apus Peru. I am absolutely mad for the mountains and since I am in the middle of the Andes why not...Read More