Travel Tips

Lima’s markets are a window to its stomach and soul. Easily accessible, a market visit is an instant deep dive the culture while getting schooled on Peru’s biodiversity and cuisine. A showcase…

The Chorrillos coastline and El Morro Solar headland is a four-hour scenic excursion with a hilltop shrine, sweeping sea and city vistas, fishmarket, restaurants and a death-defying diving priest – less than…

A large part of enjoying Havana is how you get around. The easiest and most fun is the colectivo shared taxi, where for 50 cents (or CUP) or 10 CUC, you ride…

May 2015- If you want to avoid your personal Cuban Crisis – plan, plan and one more time, plan your visit. Here are essential tips on visas, rooms, money and more. Peak…

May 2015- The Habana Vieja (Old Havana) of the known to tour group is studded with scenic plazas, cathedrals, museums, gorgeous government and arts buildings and graceful hotels from the 50’s. The…

This self-guided walk through Habana Vieja includes art, history and some questionable (chocolate, rum) museums; four plazas, two cathedrals, buildings in various architectural styles including Art Deco, Colonial and Cuban; two hotels,…

May 2015 – Absolutely itching for a panoramic shot of west Havana and the bay around Havana Vieja? Hop in a car or taxi, and motor west out of Havana Vieja to…