Pisco Sour

The highlight of our Cuzco Walking Tour

After two days of trying to find this tour in Cuzco we accidental stumbled upon it about an hour after we thought we missed it again.  The tour meets in Plaza Regocijo, however none of the Plaza's are marked so it makes it difficult to know if you are in the right one.  

The tour takes you to non tourists spots around the city and you get to try various different Peruvian dishes and drinks along the way.  

During the tour we tried alpaca, chicha ( a drink made from a base of boiled purple corn), causa (a layer of mashed potatoes, layer of chicken, layer of avocado and another layer of mashed potatoes with an olive and slice of hard boiled egg on top), Peruvian chocolate, and we finished off with the famous Pisco Sour.

Pisco is made from a special kind of grape and is distilled to 45% alcohol.  The Pisco is the base for the drink which is mixed with key lime juice, sugar syrup and egg white.  

Drinking this in the high altitudes in Cuzco can prove to be a little tricky.

But what the heck, this was just a sample! It also goes really well with their other speciality which is Ceviche.  This is the national dish of Peru.  It is raw fish cooked in the acid of lime juice, served with red onion, habanero chile, cilantro, sweet corn and some lettuce leaves.  

Very Very Yummy!  But you have to have really fresh fish!

P.S.  bringing a bottle of Pisco home with me :)))