Category: Latin America travel

It was dark and quiet. Inky, your-rods-and-cones-can’t-help-you-here dark, with only the sound of our breathing and a teensy watery swish as someone moved her foot a centimeter. Our Río …

It’s not just award season for music and movies. This is also the time of year when several “best travel writing” awards results come out. Perceptive Travel often gets …

Serving one of the most populated cities in the world, the Mexico City airport (MEX) is a sprawling, haphazard, annoying place that can throw even the most experienced travelers …

We slid into the taxi outside the Guadalajara bus station and showed the driver the printed slip of paper with the address and directions (in Spanish, provided by our …

We write about quirky destinations and exotic foreign lands here on this travel blog, but we tend to avoid the most unpleasant part of the trip: flying there. Unfortunately, …

I hate answering the “where did you go on your honeymoon?” question. I’ a travel writer. I’ll take a taxi eight hours and set out into the Sahara on …

Sweden, Egypt, Lebanon, Peru, France, Mozambique, Belgium, Thailand, Mexico, Ethiopia: what might these diverse places have in common? Food. It’s not that they share similar dishes, though some do; …

When Ana told us she needed to head up to Nicaragua on the last day of our honeymoon, I started thinking about everything I knew about Costa Rica’s nearest …

Agnne, Ojoche’s sous chef, is wearing a black cloth apron and matching chef’s hat, with one corner of the hat slightly drooping to the side. On a day with …

When Cañada de la Virgen pyramid in the Mexican state of Guanajuato was excavated, it caused the whole map of Meso-America to change shape. Also, once the archeologists started …

Two clocks sit side-by-side in Frida Kahlo’s dining room in Coyoacan, Mexico City. They’re not functional — there are no moving parts — but commemorative. One is inscribed with …

  I have never craved the island in the beer commercials. The white sand beach, the turquoise water, the palm trees. Sure, I like to swim and I like …