Best of Travel Blogs: Christmas in Cusco, New Year’s in Tasmania

A lot of travel blogs took a well-earned Christmas hiatus this week, but there were still some interesting posts out there, including these:

• The South American experts at On the Road Travel gave us an appetizing list of the meals available over Christmas in restaurants in Cusco, Peru. Check back there for tips on New Year’s Eve celebrations in Peru, too.
• Australian round-the-world trip planner The Lost Globe posted one of those neat photos of the contents of a backpack - carefully labeled - ahead of his week-long “mini-trek” in Tasmania
• The Gadling gang tipped us off about a strange kind of guy who takes confiscated scissors and turns them into artwork
• The folks at Gridskipper thought we should know about the best places to go sledding around New York City, presuming that there’s actually enough snow coming along
• Fans of The Lost Girls - three New Yorkers who have been traveling and blogging from the road for some time now - will be excited to read that all three have finally got back home to NYC, but maybe less excited to know that they’re more or less joining the rat race again - although with a new perspective
• And in the spirit of wrapping up the year that was 2007, the traveler with the social conscience at Nomad4Ever posted a summary of his blog’s most well-read and well-liked posts for the year, giving an interesting overview of the year that was