Peruvian coffee

I’ve decided that the best part of Cuzco is the coffee. This, however, is just because the coffee is so bad in the rest of the country!

The museum of coffee in Cuzco.  It’s less a museum and more of a cafe.
From what I gather, Peruvians don’t really drink coffee.  So when you order coffee in most of Peru you get something quite interesting.

Coffee, as served in Paracas.
That little jug on the right contains coffee.  The tea pot contains boiling water.  The idea is that you mix the coffee with the boiling water and you have Americano (kind of), or you drink it straight and you have espresso.
Peru actually produces coffee beans for export, but the majority of them are just that, exported.

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