South America

If people make a plant product into candy, chocolates, and tea, can it really be all that bad? Well, if you’re U.S. Customs, yes, but for people in the Andes, the coca leaf is life. If you don’t process it into white powder, the coca leaf is a pretty innocent little item. Our heavy handed …

The year is coming to an end, so it’s time to round up all the great travel stories published throughout the year from Perceptive Travel, the online magazine with tales from wandering book authors. We started the year off with a celebration of our anniversary by publishing a rundown of the most popular stories we …

Peru gets a lot of travelers, from budget backpackers to “money is no object” luxury travelers ticking off a box on their bucket list. Because of Machu Picchu being named one of the wonders of the world and Peru seemingly unable to stop milking that cash cow in all their marketing, an inordinate number of …

I’ve done a lot of hiking in Peru. I’ve gone on the Inca Trail, done the Salkantay Trek, and just finished up a version of the Lares Trek. But the hike that made me the most uneasy is one that up to 400 people a day set off to do: heading to the top of …

Before there was anything on the world maps for what we now know as North America, Central America, and South America, the people on this planet weren’t doing a whole lot of mixing. So this book outlines the start of a new chapter. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. It’s kind of hard to …