Peru Adventure

Take a team selfie agreeing to the hunt rules, all three in frame

Try picarones (pee-kah-ROH-nehs), sweet potato and squash doughnuts with syrup

Taste mazamorra morada (purple corn pudding), arroz con leche, or an alfajor with manjar blanco

Photograph a vendor’s hand-painted sign

Learn one Quechua phrase and write down what it means

Hike up to turquoise Humantay Lake

Add a stone to an apacheta for safe travel

Eat quinoa soup at camp

Photograph the pack horses and muleteers at work (ask first)

Take a photo in your warmest camp layer

Thank your arriero (horse handler) and learn their name

Photograph a mule train on the trail

Photograph Salkantay’s ice face from the pass

Climb the zigzag switchbacks called the Seven Snakes

Eat a hearty trek lunch

Photograph mist rising off the rocks after a rain shower

Add one stone to an apacheta for safe travel

Ask your guide what an emergency horse to the pass costs

See coffee plants or taste farm coffee

Eat tropical fruit or avocado from the lower slopes

Find an orchid or giant fern in the cloud forest

Take a muddy boot portrait

Soak in the Cocalmayo hot springs

Catch your first distant view of Machu Picchu

Walk along the train rails toward Aguas Calientes

Drink chicha morada, the purple corn drink

Order lomo saltado or a vegetarian stir-fry on the plaza

Take a victory photo of yourself on your hotel bed

Eat trout or Andean soup at the Aguas Calientes food market

Walk or ride the Hidroeléctrica rail line into Aguas Calientes

Stand in a trapezoid Inca doorway

Climb the green terrace stairs

Photograph Huayna Picchu across the saddle

Photograph morning mist over the ruins

Find the Intihuatana stone (look, don’t touch)

Ride the Expedition train

Soak in the Aguas Calientes hot springs

Collect a mineral tint on your towel or swimsuit

Eat a light soup or roasted vegetables after soaking

Take a team soak photo

Do the cool touch test on alpaca fiber

Do the cool-to-the-touch wrist test on alpaca fiber

Buy something with a polite bargain or a fair fixed price

Eat a market snack, such as cheese, bread, fruit or a vegetarian plate

Collect one of each Peruvian coin, from céntimos to the 5-sol piece

Eat lunch at Quinta Eulalia or Quinta Waly picantería

Eat at La Chomba or Las Manuelitas

Eat lunch at San Pedro Market

Watch the Centro Qosqo de Arte Nativo dance show (7 PM, Av. El Sol 872)

Dance at Ukukus or listen to music at KM 0 in San Blas

Eat lunch at Mamá Trini picantería behind the San Blas lookout

Visit Tipón’s Inca water terraces or eat lunch in Saylla

Eat lunch at a Sacred Valley chichería

Eat lunch at La Cusqueñísima picantería

Find a doorway with a red flag or flowered pole, the sign of a family chichería, and go inside for fresh chicha and lunch

Find a Varayoq leader’s staff at the Pisac market

Count the native potato varieties at one Pisac stall

Watch a Chinchero natural-dye weaving demo

Try choclo con queso, big-kernel corn with cheese

Join a coca k’intu offering if you’re invited

Add a stone to an apacheta for safe travel

Listen for the pututu conch horn at the Pisac Quechua Mass

Eat a clay-oven cheese empanada or anise bread in Pisac

Find a carved gourd among the Pisac crafts

Watch a barter trade of potatoes for corn or fruit

Do the real-or-fake alpaca feel test

Watch a natural-dye demonstration

Buy something directly from a weaver

Hand-feed an alpaca at Awana Kancha

Take a llama selfie at Awana Kancha (ask the handlers first)

Find a vicuña on the Awana Kancha hillside

Photograph a llama

Photograph Chinchero’s Inca terraces at sunset

Step inside Chinchero’s colonial church, built on Inca stone walls

Take a 4 a.m. team photo in the van

Photograph the stripes on Vinicunca, Rainbow Mountain

Hike to the Red Valley’s iron-red slopes

Eat a high-altitude snack (nuts, chocolate, dried fruit)

Take a photo of all three of you with Rainbow Mountain

Photograph a rainbow over a mountain