“The hospedaje owner is temporary confused when we say we are here to get to the place with the sunrise. But he’s missed the emphasis on the “The”.
“Ah, you mean THE sunrise – at Tres Cruces! But that is a journey of many hours: you must leave at 2am tomorrow. And when you get there, there is nothing! Just a sun rising over the jungle. And once you have seen that, you must return.”
The “nothing there” thing. Brilliant. That, after all, was why we were going to this outpost on the cusp between Andes and Amazon.
We set off in a battered Mercedes in the dead of night, along by the crumbling little town’s river grumbling whitely to itself, wrapped in moth-eaten blankets. There’s no moon. It is only when we pass under the one streetlight that I realise with a horror that this isn’t the driver we’d arranged the ride with yesterday. This is someone we have never seen before…”
UK…
On Bothies, the unique wilderness shelters in BRITAIN’S remotest corners, Walk Magazine
On hiking coast-to-coast across SCOTLAND without a trail, Adventure.com
(FINALIST – AITO Awards Best Feature Under 1500 Words of 2021-2022)
On how to hike the Cape Wrath Trail, SCOTLAND, GetSweatGo
On hiking Britain’s toughest long-distance trail, SCOTLAND, Red Bull Adventure Channel
On the most magical hikes in the Highlands and Islands of SCOTLAND, Red Bull Adventure Channel
On the most iconic hikes that aren’t Snowdon in WALES, Rough Guides
On what you need to know about coasteering before you jump, WALES, Red Bull Adventure Channel
EUROPE…
On solo hiking around Europe’s last true wilderness, HORNSTRANDIR, ICELAND, Flashpack
On living in the most extreme inhabited wilderness on Earth, SVALBARD, Rough Guides
On the new hiking trail LIECHTENSTEIN opened to celebrate its 300th birthday, n by Norwegian
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On hiking in the stunning chain of summits known as the Small Carpathians in SLOVAKIA, Minor Sights
On hiking the Tatranska Magistrala in the High Tatras, SLOVAKIA, GetSweatGo
On adventuring around the island of IKARIA, GREECE in search of its anti-pirate houses, BBC
CARIBBEAN & CENTRAL AMERICA…
On the best walking trails in CUBA, Lonely Planet
On the coolest cayos in CUBA for an escape, Weather2Travel
On how to get under the skin of CUBA in a cross-island adventure, GeoSaison
On exploring Viñales, the scenic backyard of CUBA, Lonely Planet
On venturing into the wild interior of COSTA RICA, Weather2Travel
SOUTH AMERICA…
On hiking to Choquequirao, the ruins billed to be the next Machu Picchu in PERU, Adventure.com
(WINNER – LATA Latin American Online Travel Feature of the Year 2019)
On the most breathtaking treks in PERU, Kimkim
On the quintessential road trips of PERU, Kimkim
On hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in PERU’S VALLE SAGRADO, GetSweatGo
On tackling the off-the-beaten-track PERUVIAN CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, Kimkim
On how an indigenous-led tourism group is helping save the PERUVIAN AMAZON, Culture Trip
On the epic river trips of the PERUVIAN AMAZON, Kimkim
On the best places to set forth on an adventure in the PERUVIAN AMAZON, Kimkim
On the best wildlife-spotting lodges of PERU and ECUADOR, Kimkim
On adventures within the ECUADORIAN AMAZON, Kimkim
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On Star Wars locations for your next adventure holiday, Red Bull Adventure Channel
Luke and his Words... 