Eat anticuchos from a street grill

Join Peru's national ritual: charcoal-spit pollo a la brasa, fries, and the great ají sauce debate

Drink an Inca Kola — the bubblegum-gold soda that beat Coca-Cola on its own turf

Drink chicha morada, the violet corn nectar Peruvians pour with everything — and meet its wild fermented ancestor

Eat ceviche where it was invented — raw fish cured in minutes by lime, chilli and leche de tigre

Sip a pisco sour — grape brandy, lime, bitters and egg-white foam — in the country that swears it invented it

Eat lomo saltado, the wok-flamed beef stir-fry where Canton met the Andes — fries in the dish, rice on the side

Watch Cusco resurrect the Inca Festival of the Sun — a full-day solstice spectacle at Sacsayhuamán

Eat your way through Lima, South America's food capital, between colonial plazas and Pacific clifftops