Author: John rubber
Two weeks in Costa Rica sounds like a lot until you look at a map and realise that the country has two completely different coastlines, a…
Costa Rica has two coastlines and most visitors end up on the same three or four beaches on the Pacific side that every travel blog recommends.…
Monteverde Cloud Forest is one of the most famous nature destinations in Central America and one of the few places that consistently delivers exactly what its…
The rental car question in Costa Rica is the one that comes up in every travel planning conversation about the country and the answer is not…
Machu Picchu is one of those places where the photographs prepare you for something extraordinary and the reality still exceeds them. I arrived at the Sun…
Most people who visit Peru see Cusco, the Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu. That circuit is extraordinary and entirely worth doing. It is also about five…
I landed in Cusco on a clear afternoon, walked up the stairs from the baggage hall to the taxi rank, and by the time I reached…
The Amazon basin covers sixty percent of Peru and most of the country’s visitors see none of it. The decision to include the jungle in a…
The most beautiful small towns in Europe are not always the ones with the most Instagram posts. Some of the places on the standard lists are…
A natural swimming hole is one of those travel experiences that should not be as good as it is. You are essentially swimming in a river…