Colombia
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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Travel Guide
Bucket List Ideas
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…
Budgeting
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…
Explore
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.…
Explore
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…
Budgeting
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…
Become
Bolivia’s Best Treks Begin With an Altitude Reality Check
Bolivia makes mountain travel look close. La Paz sits beneath the Cordillera Real, high passes appear beyond the city, and roads fall…
Bolivia
Two Weeks in Bolivia Means Choosing a Direction
The old two-week itinerary crossed La Paz, Lake Titicaca, Sucre, Potosí, Uyuni, Tupiza, Tarija, and Santa Cruz. It was less a vacation…
Bolivia
Isla del Sol Is Not a Spiritual Prop
Isla del Sol rises from Lake Titicaca high enough that the light seems to have fewer places to hide. Terraced hills fall…
Bolivia
Salar de Uyuni Needs Preparation, Not Mysticism
Salar de Uyuni is difficult to describe without sounding as if you have swallowed a tourism brochure. In the dry season, salt…