South America Travel Tips

I’m off - travelling all over South America for just over two months…. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a step by step guide advising how to go about choosing and booking a cruise to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. Read the rest of this entry »

Being a travel guide writer really sucks as you have to travel so much (I’m kidding). I’m planning another trip (Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador over 2 months) - here’s the details for anyone interested. Of course I’ll be writing about everywhere I visit upon my return. Read the rest of this entry »

This is an extensive post advising how a rural community can undertake to develop a community ecotourism project from scratch, without any funding. I address issues such as the motivation of the local community, the pre-planning of a project, the development and marketing of a community ecotourism project and how Google Adsense can be used as a means towards sustainable development.  The guidelines are transferable to almost any country worldwide - it needn’t be South America of course. All that is necessary is the will of a local community.  Read the rest of this entry »

Go to your doctor, and tell him/her that your going to Latin America, and they’ll almost certainly tell you you “must” take malaria pills, which are very expensive. Very often, indeed for most holiday makers to Latin America, you don’t need malaria pills. A small percentage of people can have some extremely averse reactions to malaria pills - if you don’t need to take them, then don’t. And NEVER take Larium, not matter what your doctor says - I know plenty of people who’ve hallucinated for this malaria pill, and heard of plenty of other stories of severe psychological illness caused by that drug. Here I’ll take a look at when / where exactly you need to take malaria pills in Latin America. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve always been thouroughly disappointed at the quality of Lonely Planet’s travel guidebooks with regards to Latin America. Then I read a shocking article explaining why they are quite so poor. Read the rest of this entry »

This is an overview of different kinds of empanadas from Argentina provinces, plus recipe details (guest written). Read the rest of this entry »