Over two weeks of hiking in Peru, I collected flowers that became a diary of the trip. In our starting point of Cusco, my flower-gathering began early with the ubiquitous flower known as qantuta, the red trumpet-shaped blooms that were once sacred to the Incas and are now, according to our Cusco guide, Peru’s national flower.

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