Exploring the Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia is unlike anything I’ve ever done before. Words can’t possibly do it justice, so here are some pictures. When I booked my trip to Salar de Uyuni, the main thing I was hoping to see was the reflective mirror surface after rain. I didn’t get to […]
Read more "Adventures in the Bolivian Desert (in Photos)"Some people dream of running a marathon one day. I’m not one of them. I once famously said I was allergic to exercise in a post that my future boss mentioned in my job interview. For the world’s largest group exercise company. I still have no idea how I got the job. But I’m stubborn, and sometimes stubbornness makes […]
Read more "Salkantay Trek: A Lesson in Endurance"You know that feeling when you open the dishwasher just after it finishes and the steam devours you and you can’t breathe or see? That’s what it feels like in the jungle. All the time. Our much anticipated 10 day jungle retreat was cancelled two days before we arrived in Iquitos, Peru – the largest city in […]
Read more "Life Lesson #51 – Don’t Join a Cult in the Amazon Jungle"I thought I knew a lot of things before I went to Cuba. I knew that the US trade embargo over 50 years ago left the streets looking like 1962. I knew (a little) about socialism, the revolution, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. I knew the Malecón waterfront was gorgeous. I knew the […]
Read more "10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Went to Cuba"The relaxing of the US embargo means Cuba is about to change forever. I decided years ago that I wanted to visit before there’s a McDonald’s and a Starbucks on every corner. Given that I wanted to see the islands as well, G Adventures’ 7 day Sailing Cuba tour had the ideal itinerary for everything […]
Read more "Highlights of Sailing Cuba"Just two hours from the bustling traffic of Mexico City, I fell in love. Malinalco is the exactly the small-town Mexican experience I had hoped for. Rustic buildings with peeling paint in every shade between mustard and amber. Roughly cobbled roads. Fruit stalls that smell of tamarind and coconut. Quiet streets, with the sound of […]
Read more "The Cutest Village in Mexico"My entire motel room smells like kiwifruit vodka. I suspect it’s probably masking worse odours. This is the kind of motel a hooker would be ashamed of. The shower is just a pipe with no head that leaks an erratic spray roughly equivalent to a scalding hot sneeze. On days like today, I’d usually sit […]
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