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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…
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…
Colour in a city is either accidental or deliberate, and the difference matters more than you might expect. Accidental colour, the kind that comes from centuries…
Train travel is the only form of long-distance transport that puts you inside the landscape rather than above it. The view from a train window has…
There is a category of travel destination that has earned its reputation so thoroughly that the reputation has become a liability. The over-hyped place that everyone…
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…