Travel Pants: Machu Picchu on a Shoestring

shoestringmag.com — This year, instead of Euro-railing, baguettes, brie and Bordeaux in Parisian cafes, say hello to Peru-railing, hiking in the clouds, swilling pisco*, and ambling through Incan ruins. (*Peru recently celebrated its Independence Day by filling the fountain in Lima’s Plaza de Armas with 2,000 liters of pisco, the "national drink.")