Llama for Lunch Author:Lydia Laube Featuring appalling rock overhangs, horrifying chasms, and waterfalls flanked by near-vertical precipices, this tale of travel through the wildest regions of the Andes is no Caribbean cruise story. The Panama Canal and the coasts of Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia are all described in a fast, furious fashion by a seasoned travel writer who survives ... more »a car ride along a mountain pass that claims an average of one vehicle a week. Also included are adventures to the last hideaway of the Incas, Machu Picchu, and a sail down the Amazon to the center of Brazil.« less
I like her as a writer, but deducted a star for her rather odd impressions of a first visit to America, which came off as either naive or "cute" - your call. I wouldn't read this one of hers first.