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Peru’s Sacred Valley: Go for a day, stay for a week. We did.
The woman in the enormous white stovepipe hat wedged herself between me and the three men in the…
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The magic of Machu Picchu (and how we travelled there in style)
The day was already perfect by 9:30 in the morning. At that point, we’d already had a glass…
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The Amazon jungle: More eyes than leaves
The meter-long caiman stared at us from its hiding place among the tangle of roots that stretched into…
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Slowly does it in the Galapagos
It looked like a small coconut bobbing on the surface of the emerald green sea. “Look! There’s one!”…
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Galapagos: Where people come last
“Grandpa, what is it like in the Galapagos Islands?” my grandson Lasky will ask me, in a conversation…
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In awe of nature at the edge of an inferno
I’m standing on the edge of the Sierra Negra volcano on Isla Isabela in the Galapagos Islands, feeling…