Browsing: Americas
Colorado got into my blood on a backpacking trip I took the summer after finishing university, when I spent three weeks in the San Juan Mountains…
Mexico City surprised me. I arrived with certain assumptions — the traffic, the safety concerns, the sheer scale of a metropolitan area of twenty-two million people…
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.…
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…
Patagonia sits at the far end of the world, and it feels like it. The wind is relentless, the weather changes every fifteen minutes, and the…