"Cali is Colombia right in your face. The attitude, the heat, the traffic, the beautiful women, the music and the food all combine in a delightful, dizzying haze." Lonely planet Guidebook
"We will pass just as quietly through life as the 10th Century people of this valley only with a little more noise and a few bridges and dams and bombs that won't even last a million years" Jack Kerouac in, Big Sur
"The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom." Ernesto Guevara in, Motorcycle Diaries