Costa Rica and Peru are both popular family vacation destinations, and for good reason. Both are Latin American countries and ecotourism havens with mountains, beaches, and UNESCO World Heritage Sites. But if you’re looking at a map as you plan a family vacation, you’ll quickly find […]
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Sustainable Travel Peru: Being a Responsible Tourist Sustainable travel is the idea of traveling in a way that leaves the place you visit in a similar or better condition than it was. This means not taking the stone you found at Machu Picchu as a souvenir […]
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In the last 8 years, I’ve lived in Peru, I’ve split my time raising my family between the Andes and Peru’s capital Lima. February 2020, a month before the pandemic, we moved back to Lima, choosing to live in the suburbs for more space and quiet. […]
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In 2013 I started selling private tours, in South America, over half of our sales were tours of Peru. It seemed that almost all travelers had a similar vision in their heads of their trip to Machu Picchu. They would wake up at 4 am, and […]
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Do you remember when an eco-lodge actually meant a hotel or lodge that followed principles and systems to minimize the impact on the local environment? Or when a sustainable business actually indicated a company’s ability to sustain the environment around them? Over the years it seems […]
2 Read MoreIt’s no secret that deforestation is a huge problem in Peru, and South America as a whole. So why not offer a one-off contribution and sponsor a tree in Peru to help with reforestation in the Andes? Reforestation efforts in South America have been raging for […]
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