Inca Kola : A Traveller's Tale of Peru by Matthew Parris

Inca-Kola is the funny, absorbing account of Matthew Parris’s fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre holiday which takes him among bandits, prostitutes, peasants and riots. He and his three companions seem to head into trouble, not away from it, and he describes the troubles, curiosities and wonders they meet with the spell-binding fascination of a traveller relating adventures over the campfire.
‘A backpacker’s classic: atmospheric, touching, instructive and compulsively readable’ The Times