Would You Like Fries With Your Guinea Pig? - Easton & Peru

Peru was great including the Inca Trail, learning about the Incas and especially the food!

I tried guinea pig and it tastes amazing like chicken with lots of seasoning. Only the locals get the full roasted guinea pig, I got the arms and legs served to me and in the picture they brought this out after for me to see. I also tried alpaca which tasted like lamb, it was very good as well. Did you know that Peru has over 3000 types of potatoes? I tried a couple and they were fantastic. The beef tastes totally different but better than beef at home. I will let you know different foods to try as I travel different countries.

I finished the Inca Trail which was 48kms of hiking through the Andes mountains. I saw some beautiful views and always had the most time to look at them since I was always leading the pack. Throughout the hike we went through the most amazing Incan ruins. It is amazing how the Incans made them around 500 years ago with no tools. They have found no tools that would have been able to cut the rocks but they have found chisel marks on the rocks. Some stones that had been moved to the ruins weighed 40 tonnes, I can't imagine how many people were squished moving these monstrous rocks (see the picture). The hardest day of the hike was the second, we hiked 16km over 9 hours. We hiked up to over 4200 meters above sea level, I was the first up to Dead Woman's Pass by 15 minutes. I would recommend this hike to anyone even though it is a very tricky hike but it is a once in a lifetime thing.

The Incas had different grave yards than what we do now. What they did was mummify the dead Inca in the fetal position. He was then put in a cave with all of his belongings that they dug in the side of a mountain so he could be reborn with all of his stuff (check out the picture of the caves in this mountain, there is over 5000). Only the richer Incas got to be buried this way. You could tell they were Incan because when they were babies they had their heads wrapped with sticks to form it as a long oval formation. The Incans used the sun, moon and stars for almost everything they did, they used the Southern Cross Constellation for everything. The Incans were smart for where they built their villages for security and agriculture. I guess my Dad could never be an Inca. You might know the Incans were attacked by the Spanish all over South America and they destroyed their temples and fortresses except the ones high in the clouds they could not find.

My favorite part of Peru was Machu Picchu because it is so big and was not finished. I can't imagine what it would be like if it was finished.