Peru - Lonely Planet Publications [480]
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KATY SHORTHOUSE Lake Titicaca, Cuzco & the Sacred Valley
Katy’s career highlights include walking the Inca Trail 13 times and Australia’s Overland Track seven times, guiding multisport tours in Ecuador and Patagonia, and running an adventure business in New Zealand. Lowlights include writing junk mail, telemarketing and cleaning toilets. Katy aspires to travel but she keeps stopping and putting down roots, with the result that she now divides her time between Peru, New Zealand and Australia (and lives in dread of finding somewhere else she likes). If you know of a place that combines Melbourne’s culture, Cuzco’s food and fiestas, and the multisport hills of Queenstown, please let her know via www.aspiringadventures.com or drop in to her bar in Cuzco, La Chupitería.
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LUKE WATERSON Central Highlands, Amazon Basin
Raised in the remote Somerset countryside in southwest England, Luke quickly became addicted to exploring out-of-the-way places. Having completed a creative-writing degree at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, he shouldered his backpack and vowed to see as much of the world as was humanly possible. He has spent almost two years backpacking South America and writes for various publications including the Guardian. When not wolfing down a plate of lomo saltado (strips of beef stir-fried with onions, tomatoes, potatoes and chili) or hiking through the Andes, he can be found living on a rather smaller hill outside London, concocting further travel plans.
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BETH WILLIAMS South Coast, Arequipa & Canyon Country
While earning a degree in Latin American studies, Beth spent summers traveling and serving pisco sours at a Peruvian restaurant in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, in the USA. She then followed an interest in women’s health to a village nestled at 3000m in the Peruvian Andes. There she spent a year building ‘vertical’ birthing facilities for Quechua women to give birth in the traditional fashion – standing up. Beth then retreated to sea level to work for a Peruvian nonprofit in the slums of Lima, during which time she added four stamps to her passport and traveled the Peruvian Pan-American Hwy at least five times. What’s next? A master’s at New York’s Columbia University.
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CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
Dr David Goldberg MD wrote the Health chapter. David completed his training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, where he has also served as voluntary faculty. At present he is an infectious-diseases specialist in Scarsdale, New York State,