Plenty of people head to Latin America with plans to take intensive Spanish classes. It’s a great way to learn, but you will be stuck behind a desk […]

Ecuador may be less known for trekking than its southerly neighbor, Peru, which is why we were so excited to hike through the former’s supposedly wilder, less-frequently-traveled backcountry. […]

Imagine the most beautiful, empty desert landscape – sand dunes and flat plains for as far as the eye can see – untouched by modern man. Now imagine […]

Located just over an hour from the Northern border of Argentina, Tupiza is a typical small Bolivian town but with a few unique touches that will make you […]

If you follow travel related news, you might have recently heard the story of Garret Hand and Jamie Neal. These two travelers from the US ended up “missing” […]

For most people living in the US, “Latin America” is a far off place. For someone like me though, growing up in Arizona and just a few hours […]

When people imagine Caribbean paradise it always seems to include a nice white beach, doesn’t it? For me, Caribbean paradise is not so much a beach but a […]

Colombia’s coffee region is one of the most popular places for foreign tourists visiting the country. The paisa, a nickname for people from this region, are said to […]

Colombia has its own growing tourist and travel scene. People from the capital city of Bogota love to take time off of work and explore their own country. […]

I had been to Mexico a bunch as a kid but never very far south of the US border as we always visited by car. When it came […]