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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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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“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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There is usually nothing special about November 5th. Unless, I guess, you are celebrating the eponymous conspirator Guy Fawkes with effigies and fireworks. But for us non-Brits, it’s another day on…
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*The following images are graphic and may not be intended for all viewers.* In addition to a few rigid excerpts from The Sun Also Rises, I may have only given three minutes of…
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I’m abruptly awoken on Halloween’s eve to the ruffling and shaking of my tent pitched deep in the Peruvian Amazon. A thick coat of alarmed chicken skin rips down my back…
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…
And I catch piranha. But as blasé as I intend this to sound, I can’t deny the fact that fishing in the Amazon in the same manner as the locals takes the…