Browsing: South America
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…
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…
Costa Rica is a small country with an outsized number of waterfalls. The combination of volcanic mountains, year-round rainfall, and dense rainforest creates conditions where water…