Cheap Latin America Travel

Editor’s note: This post on the cost to live in Colombia was updated at the end of April of 2023.  The country of Colombia is not in my World’s Cheapest Destinations book yet, but it is in my cheap living abroad book A Better Life for Half the Price. It has a whole lot going …

Who has the cheapest beer around the world? Which are the cheapest beer destinations if you want to travel to a place where you can put back some pints on a low budget? For many travelers this is a key consideration, especially if they’re coming from a country like Norway or the UAE where the …

Peru travel is a bargain. Or Peru is very expensive. It all depends on how and where you travel in the country. I inhabit the strange world of travel writing where for my job I go back and forth from cheap hotels to plush palaces, from crowded buses to executive taxis depending on whether I’m …

“So what’s it like living there in Mexico?” People in my country of birth ask me this a lot. Usually with a bit of trepidation in their voice, like I’m going to tell them five horrible things that happened to me in the last five weeks. In reality though, life as a Mexpat is good. …

Twice in my life I have spent several days off the grid in Peru, slogging up and down the Andes Mountains on the way to Machu Picchu. Once I did it on the Inca Trail, another time on the Salkantay Trail. These two Peru treks present very different experiences, both with their pros and cons. …