Trekking

Some of the best places to visit in the world make you work for it a bit and that’s true with Gocta Waterfall in Peru. You’ll go up and down for six kilometers each way on the trip, but after you get there you may have the waterfalls all to yourself. I use the plural …

Twice in my life I have spent several days off the grid in Peru, slogging up and down the Andes Mountains on the way to Machu Picchu. Once I did it on the Inca Trail, another time on the Salkantay Trail. These two Peru treks present very different experiences, both with their pros and cons. …

As we enter 2019, Perceptive Travel enters its 14th year of publishing great travel stories from book authors. So if nothing else, I’m persistent. Maybe a little stubborn too, because if I wanted to just gets lots of traffic and pump up ad revenue, I’d publish the listicles and shallow clickbait that you see all …

A reader asked me back in 2008 if there was a way to travel around the world without ever plugging into a wall socket. The answer was “sort of” and it has not gotten much better since then, unfortunately. If you only carry a smartphone it’s not hard to be a solar-powered traveler, but it …

If people make a plant product into candy, chocolates, and tea, can it really be all that bad? Well, if you’re U.S. Customs, yes, but for people in the Andes, the coca leaf is life. If you don’t process it into white powder, the coca leaf is a pretty innocent little item. Our heavy handed …