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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…
Most people assume Everest Base Camp is for serious mountaineers only. It is not. The trek to Base Camp at 5,364 metres is a long, cold,…
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…
Iceland is one of the few places where you can hike across a lava field in the morning, walk behind a waterfall at lunch, and end…
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…
Europe’s waterfalls are among its least-marketed natural assets. Most visitors come for the cities, the coast, the mountains — and entirely miss the waterfalls hidden in…
Route 1 — the Ring Road — circles Iceland for 1,332 kilometres. It passes glaciers, active volcanoes, sea cliffs with puffin colonies, geothermal fields, and fjords.…
Norway’s scenic routes are designated by the government — eighteen roads officially selected for exceptional landscape. Driving them is not a commute with views; it is…