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8 Ways NOT to do Machu Picchu

8 Ways NOT to do Machu Picchu

There’s spontaneous travel and then, there’s Machu Picchu. A trip to this South American world wonder requires planning, and a lot of it. Thus, 8 rookie mistakes no traveler should ever make while visiting Peru’s royal estate.

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Threads of Change

Threads of Change

Patacancha is a cold, barren town perched high in the mountains of Peru’s Sacred Valley of the Incas. Without the narrow dirt road hugging steep ridges and making its way from the nearby town of Ollantaytambo, it would remain an indigenous Peruvian village disconnected from the outside world.

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8 Stellar Scenes on the Amazon

8 Stellar Scenes on the Amazon

“We need the tonic of wilderness… At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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Lima through the Lens

Lima through the Lens

Life usually throws me surprises in the form of embarrassing ailments and disfigurements. For instance, I was really quite marveled by that one time my face was temporarily paralyzed after a spectacular Hawaiian fishing trip. And I can't explain...

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