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One of the seven wonders of the world and by most accounts the most popular tourist destination in South America for foreigners, Machu Picchu is on the list of almost every first-time visitor to Peru. It’s in an isolated location only reached by train though or on foot though, so the answer to “How…
If you’re a traveler, where are you most likely to encounter bad air? Where are the most polluted cities in the world, places where it is downright dangerous to your health? Well, there are some places in the Americas that have some bad air, but they’ve got nothing on the smoking guns of Asia,…
Backpacking around Southeast Asia was one of the most cost-effective ways to extend your travel time back when I first hit the road in the 1990s. Here we are a quarter way through a new century and it still is. It helps that so many great value destinations are clustered together. Getting from A…
You’ve seen them in almost every big city you’ve traveled to, ads for them on the official tourism site, half the unofficial sites, and on half the travel blogs with an article about things to do in that destination. For one price, these city passes or sightseeing passes you buy in Paris or Prague…
Outdoor clothing brands come and go, while some manage to stick around for decades because they’re dependable and have a stable of happy customers. One of my favorite brands that seems to be universally loved by outdoorsy types is Kuhl clothing (technically spelled KÜHL). I didn’t run into Kuhl very much until I started…
I have visited Hungary three times now, in three different decades, so I’ve got a good sense of where travel prices in Budapest, Hungary have been in the past and where they are now. The first time I landed in Hungary it was the ’00s, the second time the ’10s, and the third time…
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