Single guys who visit Cusco read this and consider yourself warned.
I had my students do one of my favorite writing exercises last week: write a story in groups, with each student contributing one line at a time. This way the story develops itself instead of following a pre-determined storyline.
Here’s how one group started their story:
And a little further down:
(student 4) “Where we started dancing with 3 chicas peperas”
…
Chicas peperas? I’d heard many students say that Don Diablo is a dangerous place, where you can get robbed or get in a fight. But chicas peperas was new to me.
My students explained chicas peperas are girls that typically hang out at the less reputable discos in Cusco. They get guys to buy them a drink, or bring the guys a drink themselves (servers typically don’t wear uniforms, so you don’t know). Next thing the poor guy knows is when he wakes up in the middle of the Plaza de Armas…
- Where’s my wallet?
- Where’s my cellphone?
- Where are my clothes? What happened?
We usually go out to the typical tourist spots on the Plaza de Armas such as Mama Africa, which have always been safe to us. If you’d prefer to get away from the tourist traps, I believe most of the neighborhood discos in Cusco are safe as well, but best ask the locals first.
Mama Africa, early in the evening
Update: the scoop on peperas in Lima, from a reliable source.
So my single, younger brother notices after 15 mins that he’s getting stared at by a couple of v pretty girls. As soon as he makes eye contact with one of them they’re at the table like a shot. I fake that i don’t speak Spanish (my brother doesn’t need to fake that bit) and it took about 20 minutes before they invited us to a disco later that evening. They leave to “Go get ready for later…see you boys there!!” and only then do i tell bro what a pepera is and how it all works.
He decided not to turn up for his date.
Life in Peru 
peligro en lima,hay mas de 10,000 peperas y peperos, en lima y peru,son chicas bonitas prittys,de toda edades,de preferencia son jovenes,trabajan en las discotecas bares estan bien organizadas,andan con una o dos amigas mas tienen un taxista que las espera afuera,hay malos mosos y mosas que dan el dato por celular,y malos vigilantes de las discotecas,en lince,miraflores,san isidro etc…,tambien hay malos policias que las ayudan y abogados son una mafia bien organizada desde los 90 en lima y provincias en cuzco tambien,TAMBIEN SE HECHAN DIASEPAN A LOS SENOS Y LA BOCA y cuando el hombre las BESA les pasan un caramelito pequeñito que ni lo siente y se queda dormido,y si les besa los senos tambien se quedA DORMIDO Y LE ROBAN TODO……,TAMBIEN EN LAS NOCHES HAY CHICAS QUE SE OFRECEN Y DICEN QUE NO TIENEN DONDE DORMIR Y SON PEPERAS tengancuidado
TAMBIEN HAY PEPEROS,QUE ESTAN TOMANDO SOLOS EN LAS DISCOTECAS O BARES 1 HORA A 2 HORAS Y SE ACERCAN A CONVERSAR Y TE BUSCAN LA CONVERSACION DE CULQUIER TEMA ESTAN ATENTOS QUE ESTAS HABLANDO,Y TE CUENTAN QUE TIENEN UNA PENA UNA DESGRACIA…..Y ES MENTIRA ENTONCES DE PENA UNO O DOS AMIGOS LO ACEPTAN EN SU MESA Y DESPUES LOS TERMINA PEPEANDO A LOS DOS Y LES ROBA TODO…TENGAN CUIDADO
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