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Ecuador’s Eco Adventures

Posted on May 22, 2012 by AudreyRose | 0 Comments

Featured Writer: Audrey Rose Goldfarb I gave Wlady no restrictions when it came to setting up our eco-adventures – just told him I love animals and want to see as many different ones as possible and that I REALLY wanted to meet some monkeys. He gave us the plan, we proceeded accordingly… First was Punay. Joined by two other Americans,…

Trekking towards Selective Memory … an Inca Trail Adventure

Posted on May 14, 2012 by alisonearlsALOUD | 7 Comments

Featured writer: Alison Although I’ve never given birth, I’m aware of the phenomenon where post-labour mothers seem to forget the horrendous agony of it all … possibly some kind of evolutionary device to ensure they continue to procreate. And since my friend Liz and I walked the Inca Trail in Peru, we have begun to wonder if a similar device…

Lake Titicaca

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Makepeace | 1 Comments

Featured writer: Emma Makepeace – http://emmamakepeace.com/ Peru’s most famous tourist attraction is undoubtedly Machu Picchu and with every reason. It’s stunning. But before I made it to Cuzco for my trek along the Inca Trail, I flew into Juliaca landing at 3826m above sea level. Apparently anything above 2000m and you should acclimatize yourself by moving up in 500m increments to allow…

Colombia – Popayan

Posted on April 6, 2012 by lastcleanshirt | 2 Comments

Featured Writer: David Hughes With its maze-like streets, strewn with low standing white-walled buildings which have absolutely no distinguishing feature to recall upon if you get lost (and you will get lost), there’s something incredibly welcoming and inviting about Popayan. Granted, you need to allow for the insisting thunderstorms which convert the sloping cobbled streets into gushing rivers, and there…

Peru: In Search of Ayahuasca

Posted on March 27, 2012 by lastcleanshirt | 1 Comments

Featured writer: David Hughes In a small, dark, windowless room sits three men on wooden stools low to the floor. Two of the men are elderly and look to be in poor health, but they welcome me with warm smiles and each of them offers their hand. The man in the middle is Jauriman, he is tall and heavy-set, dressed…

Saluting the Sun God at Machu Picchu

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Carla Escoda | 1 Comments

Feature Writer: Carla Escoda Having just hiked four days through cold and rain, covering 49 kilometres of the Inca Trail from Cuzco through the Andean cloud forest to Machu Picchu, Leah celebrates her arrival at this sacred Inca site by stepping into an iconic pose from George Balanchine’s monumental ballet Apollo. With the Sun Gate ahead and the Temple of the…

The Salar de Uyuni and the Cordillera De Chichas – South West Bolivia

Posted on March 9, 2012 by skinnywench | 45 Comments

Featured Writer – Sue Llewellyn If ever there was a place where one could imagine being on a different planet, it has to be the in the surreal high altitude landscapes of Southwest Bolivia and the spectacular blinding white salt plains of Uyuni. Mud bubbling geysers, volcanoes (active and extinct) towering over vegetation bereft desert puffing smoke signals out into…

A Driving Mission

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Lesley | 0 Comments

Featured Writer: David Weindling Many years ago, I veered my rental car through the streets of Rome, parked in front of my hotel, and swore I would not drive again until it was time to leave Rome altogether. Escaping Rome with body and vehicle intact was a kiss the ground moment. I recently survived another kiss the ground driving experience, but…

Hike, Ride a Horse, Kayak: How I Found My Zen in Torres del Paine

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Lesley | 1 Comments

Feature Writer: Giulia Billi Ah, Patagonia! Such a vast, enchanted, tough land…..Frontier land, land of pioneers, an empty wilderness where to project one’s fantasy and dreams. I certainly did, as Patagonia was one of the key destinations that made me decide to travel in Latin America. Patagonia is a large region spanning between Southern Chile and Argentina. The landscape varies, going…

The Giving Trip

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Lesley | 19 Comments

~Featured Writer: Jan Hanson~ In early January 2007, I boarded an early morning flight from Minneapolis making my way to Ayacucho, Peru. While boarding the flight to the Andean city, a woman asked in broken English where I was going. I told her I was serving as an international volunteer in Ayacucho. She said, “It’s very poor there.” That is…