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Peruvian food is the product of Andean agriculture meeting Spanish, West African, Chinese and Japanese cooking in the same kitchens. Knowing which influence produced which dish makes a menu legible instead of long.
Peru is courteous, formal in small ways that are easy to get right, and more linguistically and culturally varied than a two week itinerary reveals. Most of what a visitor needs is a short list.
Peru has festivals that are genuinely worth building a trip around, and two of them will make accommodation in Cusco impossible to find if you arrive without a booking. Several move with the church calendar, so a date from last year is not a date.
Peru has an Afro-Peruvian coast with its own music, food and religious practice, centered on a few towns south of Lima. It carries no monument and no inscription, which is exactly why a visitor has to be told where to look.
Peru is harder than a European city and easier than its reputation, and the difficulty is unevenly distributed. Lima and the major hotels are workable; Inca stone and high altitude are not adaptable, and knowing which is which is the whole of the planning.
Peru rewards unhurried travel, which suits many older travelers well. The one thing that genuinely needs planning is the height, and the fix is a matter of sequence rather than of fitness.
Brazil is large enough that there is no national best time, only a best time for the part of it you are going to. The seasons are the southern hemisphere's, the northeast runs on a different pattern from the southeast, and Carnival moves with Easter, which is the fact most itineraries get wrong.
Brazil sets and enforces its own entry rules and has changed the one that affects United States passport holders more than once. This guide gives you the rules that are the same for everybody, tells you the two things that go wrong at the border, and sends you to the authority that can answer the…
Brazil does not have a climate, it has several. The useful way to think about it is not hot and cold but wet and dry, because in most of the country the rain is what changes what you can do, where you can go, and what the landscape looks like when you get there.
Brazil runs on the real, cards are ordinary almost everywhere, and the risks are not the ones travelers expect. Card cloning and terminal overcharging are documented; carrying a lot of cash to solve the problem creates a worse one.