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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 Inca Trail is the most famous hike in South America and one of the most celebrated in the world. It earns the reputation not through…
Southeast Asia has more islands than any traveller can visit in a lifetime. Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam together have tens of thousands of them,…
Tokyo operates at a frequency that most visitors do not expect. It is the largest city in the world — 37 million people in the greater…
Japan beyond Tokyo is a different country. The shinkansen network means that Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nara, and the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail are all within a…
Southern Vietnam moves faster than the north. Ho Chi Minh City (still called Saigon by everyone who lives there) has the energy of a city that…
I have been to both Coron and El Nido on separate trips, and the question I am asked most often by people planning a Philippines itinerary…