A Scent of Peru

The next scent on my list is the sense of smell. This one is going to be a bit more difficult, but I´ll try my best to recreate it for you. Peru definitely has it´s own smell, but it combines many familiar smells to make it Peru. First, the buses have a dusty, musty smell coupled with the scent of hard working people. The streets also have a mixture of scents all brought together. While out on the streets, the air is filled with the smell of exhaust, oil, and gasoline from all of the vehicles. The smell of this type of transportation is one that I have been enjoying quite a lot. Little street kitchens pop up as the sky quickly turns to black, and the smell of cooked meat and bread fills the air. After a long day of classes and school work, one particular kitchen is extra-inviting. Hermana Maria is an amazing cook who works rapidly around the kitchen producing the most mouth-watering smells that I have smelled in Peru. Whether the ever-present smell of rice and onions or other foods fills the air in the kitchen, the tasty smells quickly permeate throughout the entire house. One other of my favorite scents is the smell of clean laundry after being hung out ont he roof to dry. Along with the pleasant smells comes the not-so-pleasant scents of burning trash or the fish section in the market. Each smell,however, has its place in order to make the smell of Peru unique.