Want a less crowded or less expensive alternative to Machu Picchu? Here’s all you need to know about Choquequirao, Kuélap, and the Sacred Valley including cost of visiting, how to get…
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The Choquequirao trek is an adventure in the truest sense of the word. Sitting high in the Vilcabamba mountain range, the 15th-Century Choquequirao Archaeological Complex is only accessible by foot. And…
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Machu Picchu is awfully impressive but it does have one major drawback. Everyone knows it’s great. Since Machu Picchu gets around 3,300 visitors per day, you can get there early, take…
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They call Isla de la Plata “The Poor Man’s Galapagos“. Much like the Galapagos, Isla de la Plata also has blue-footed boobies and frigatebirds in droves. You’ll find tortoises (though not the…
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Ha Giang has something in common with most truly awesome places; it is just hard enough to get to that it has withstood the ravages of time. Adventurers go trekking in Sapa in pursuit of indigenous culture and cascading…
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What could possibly be so spectacular about some rocks that prodigious authors only tell of them as supernatural, and influential leaders can’t so much as describe them?
You’ll be impressed…