There’s nothing like a good walk when you’re traveling to let you unwind and get to know a place. Of course, there are walks and then there are walks. Or, rather, hikes. Here is a…
Hiking Around the World: 10 Awesome Trails
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Best 2012 Destinations: National Geographic Finds Something for Everyone
If you are planning your next international trip, it will likely be a 2012 event. In anticipation, National Geographic Traveler magazine has tapped twenty destinations as Best of the World 2012. There’s something for everyone,…
Traveling to Eat Well: Culinary Tourism Takes Off
If encountering KFC signs abroad makes you wonder why you booked the trip, you’re ready to join the vanguard of the culinary tourism movement. Discovering local foods has always been a cool travel experience, but…
The Plague: Timely Treatment is Critical
In an eerie throwback to a bygone era, the Peruvian minister of health reported on Monday that a 14 year old boy had died and that at least 31 others had become infected with the…
Multi-drug Resistant TB: Where Is It Winning?
My eyes were opened to the threat posed by multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) when I read about Dr. Paul Farmer’s evangelical efforts to raise the world’s consciousness in Tracy Kidder’s book Mountains Beyond Mountains. Years…
Mudslides in Machu Picchu
The heaviest rains to hit Peru in the past fifteen years have caused mudslides with serious consequences today — 4 people have been killed and 2,000 tourists have been stranded in and around Machu Picchu….
Walking Into Trouble: Pedestrians in Peru (and Other Places)
Worldwide, 46% of all highway fatalities are “vulnerable road users”-pedestrians, cyclists and people on two-wheeled motor vehicles, according to the recent WHO report on road safety. But we’ve run some numbers and found that in…
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