South America is arguably one of the best places in the world for adventure travel and outdoor excursions with its stunningly varied natural landscapes and rugg...
According to Inca mythology Lake Titicaca is the site from which god Viracoca rose to create the first humans, along with the sun, moon and stars. And after see...
There is something not being talked about here.
The guidebooks paint an exotic picture of the floating islands of the Uros, a pre-Incan people who live on se...
Once the capital of the Inca empire, today this picturesque sprawling Andean city is home to well preserved Spanish colonial architecture and important Inca arc...
This is what we had been waiting for!
In the five years that Adam and I have known each other we have always talked about traveling to Peru and hiking to Mac...
Standing high atop the citadel watching the first rays of sun spill over the Santa Teresa valley and light up the Machu Picchu ruins, I was awe struck by the be...
It was pure coincidence that we booked our Salkantay trek and subsequent visit to Machu Picchu one day prior to the annual Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun) cele...
The guidebooks were adamant, you can’t visit Arequipa, Peru without making a side-trip to Colca Canyon. Colca Cayon is one of the world's deepest canyons, twic...
Of all our stops in Peru, Arequipa is the city we could see ourselves getting stuck in for a while. Peru’s White City boasts some of the prettiest natural surro...
There was a moment when I thought to myself, “Well this is a bad idea.”
It was a fleeting moment of course, after which I threw caution to the wind, latche...
