Category: Latin America travel

Story and photos by Joshua Berman Travelers’ tales about Tikal inspire a sunrise photo quest—and a race against park guards and time. On my first morning in Tikal, Guatamala, …

By Shelley Seale Visiting the driest place on Earth, a writer is captivated by the alien landscape but longs to look deeper into the lives and traditions of the …

By Luke Armstrong After the first attack I rushed to find first aid. The clock was ticking. The longer I left the wounds un-washed the greater the risk of …

Story & photos by Richard McColl A notorious region of Colombia that once served as both a jungle prison camp and center of coke production makes for a great …

The actual title of Kathleen Peddicord’s book is How to Retire Overseas, but even if you are decades away from thinking of retiring, it is a useful read. Peddicord …

“We never used to have all of these picky eaters with their food allergies.” As a thrifty child of the Depression, my Mom has no patience with people who …

Pytheas was a Greek who lived almost four hundred years before the Christian era. Perhaps it was in part his interest the mathematics of navigation which led him to …

No matter how lightly you pack for a trip, there’s one item neither you, nor I, nor anyone who has ever set forth on a journey leaves home without: …

Sometimes, things don’t work out. My trip to Jordan had to be canceled.  I was really looking forward to it, but some family issues have cropped up and my …

I used to be afraid of flying. Not just a little nervous when the plane hit turbulence, but terrified for a couple of days before the flight, days during …

After I visited Casa Azul, the birth and death place of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo last year, I complained that I felt somewhat irritated by all the focus …

The feature articles in this month’s edition of Perceptive Travel magazine focus on the Americas  –  North and South. In his article Two Wheels, Two Drinks: Biking through America’s …