Llama for LunchLydia Laube, one of the world's dauntless, intrepid travellers, is off to South America in search of the sun. Braving hair-raising mountainous tracks, bandits, immigration officials, jungle beasts and third-world dentists, she ventures through Mexico, down the Panama Canal, along the coast of Colombia, and into Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. |
Contents
Illegal | |
Tequila sunrise | |
Pirates and Panama | |
Llama for lunch | |
Gaol bird | |
Road to ruin | |
Jungle juice | |
Across the river to Brazil | |
Afloat again | |
Amazons and anacondas | |
Where the Amazon meets the Atlantic | |
Rolling down to | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
alongside alpaca Amazon Aqua Caliente asked Australian Australian dollars bathroom beautiful Belem boat Bolivia bought Brazil breakfast building bus station buses cabin cafe canoe church coffee cold Copacabana Coroico couldn’t couple courtyard Cuzco dark deck didn’t dollars door drink edge floor footpath front glass green guarana Guayaramerin houses huge Incas jungle kilometres La Paz Lake Titicaca later light looked lunch Machu Picchu main street Manaus metres Mexican Mexico morning mountains night o’clock passed passengers Peru plastic Porto Velho rain realised ride river road roof Rurrenabaque seat seemed ship ship’s shower side Spanish stalls stone stood stopped Surre taxi thought ticket tiled tiny toilet told took tourist town train trees village waiting walked wall washing wasn’t watched wharf Wojciech woman wondered wooden