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Medellín Nightlife Is Better Without a Top-Seven List
A ranked list of bars is one of the fastest ways to make a travel article useless. Venues close, ownership changes, neighborhoods…
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The Rosario Islands Are a National Park Before a Day Trip
The Rosario Islands are often introduced as Cartagena’s nearby escape: clear water, white sand, speedboat, lunch, back before dinner. That description is…
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Coffee in Salento Starts Long Before the Cup
Salento is often reduced to three things: colorful doors, very tall palm trees, and a coffee tour where someone hands you a…
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Guatapé Is More Than the View From El Peñol
El Peñol is not hidden. The staircase attached to an enormous rock, the reservoir spreading below it, and the colorful town of…
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Budget Travel in Colombia Is a Route Problem
Colombia can be affordable, but the old promise of a bed for five dollars and an entire month for a few hundred…
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Coffee in Cusco Is Better Without a Top-Five List
Cusco has enough cafés to make a top-five list feel useful for roughly the time it takes a sixth one to open.…
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The Peruvian Amazon Is Not One Destination
Saying you are going to the Peruvian Amazon is a little like saying you are going to the mountains. It identifies an…
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The Road Into Machu Picchu
Most people arrive at Machu Picchu after a train and a bus. The Inca Trail changes the first impression by making the…
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Peruvian Food Refuses to Be One Cuisine
Peruvian food is usually introduced as a fusion. The word is useful until it starts making centuries of migration, trade, colonization, adaptation,…
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Budgeting for Peru Means Budgeting for the Andes
Peru can be affordable, but the old price list promising five-dollar beds and fixed-cost trips to Machu Picchu was never going to…